Artist
4N The Human
4N The Human is Egyptian-American rapper Ahmad Ghoniem, an Alexandria native who performs in English. He began rapping while at college in the United States and appeared in SceneNoise’s 8 Bars interview series.
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Papa Told Me
Directed by Yassin Koptan.
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01 / The video
A Kitchen Films and DROOGS collaboration.
4N The Human turns the pressure of parental expectations into a call to pursue your own ambitions, in a music video filmed in Alexandria.
- Format
- Music video
- Running time
- 2:37
- Artist
- 4N The Human
- Filmmaker
- Yassin Koptan
- Kitchen Films release
- 16 August 2019
- YouTube views · as of October 21, 2026
- 99,816
02 / The voices behind the work
Meet the artist.
03 / Behind the camera
Meet the filmmaker.
Yassin Koptan
Yassin Koptan is an Egyptian filmmaker from Alexandria and a Kitchen Films co-founder. His early skateboarding videos led into filmmaking, and he later studied at the New York Film Academy.
Explore their work04 / More from the video
Around the work.
Screenplays, production photographs, cast and making-of notes are added as they are verified. Here is what this page holds today.
- Script & treatment
Before the frame.
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Behind the story.
2 notes on how the video was made.
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05 / Making the film
Behind the story.
A story behind every scene
In his release interview, 4N The Human explained that the team built a complete story for the video and gave each scene a purpose. He credited director and editor Yassin Koptan with shaping the result.
Read the sourceAn Alexandria collaboration
Kitchen Films presented Papa Told Me in association with DROOGS. The video was filmed in Alexandria, bringing 4N’s English-language rap back to his Egyptian roots.
Read the sourceMade together.
- Artist
- 4N The Human
- Directed & edited by
- Yassin Koptan
- Presented by
- Kitchen Films
- In association with
- DROOGS
Sources & further reading 7 references
Release and profile information is drawn from the sources below. Photo sources are credited alongside the images.
- Kitchen Films — official video and credits — checked
- 4N The Human — release interview — checked
- 4N The Human — SceneNoise 8 Bars — checked
- Yassin Koptan — NYFA interview — checked
- Yassin Koptan — firsthand interview — checked
- Yassin Koptan — SAHARA Magazine author profile — checked
- 4N the Human — Papa Told Me — IMDb — checked
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