in an interview for an algerian video about the raï history only in algeria (see external links), boutaiba sghir declared to an algerian journalist "" the raï music was prohibited in all algerian medias (radios and tv) during the 70's"". it's why there is not video of algerian raï singers in algerian tv or radios archives in 70s. he has also declared in different videos on youtube that cheb hasni is not a raï singer but an "asri singer" and that the pop raï (also called modern bedoui or modern raï) existed before the coming of the trumpeter bellemou.