Mehdi Bahlaoui was born on April 13, 2003, in Marrakesh, Morocco. He grew up in a family that valued education and hard work, which instilled in him a strong sense of curiosity and a desire to learn from an early age. His parents encouraged him to explore various interests, including technology and engineering, which would later shape his career path. Growing up, and like all children of his age, Mehdi fell in love with a video game and played it nonstop. He knew every corner of it. Eventually, he turned that obsession into a YouTube channel that quickly grew faster than expected: over 600 loyal followers, 20,000+ views. But he never saw himself as a gaming YouTuber long-term, so he quit. Through it, he learned how to edit, how to talk to an audience, how to build and hold attention. Skills that would later feed into his music, storytelling, and everything else that followed.

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At around 10 years old, Mehdi used to have a guilty pleasure; He used to destroy Desktop PCs hh. He would beg his mother to buy used ones from the souk, because he had obviously already destroyed every Desktop PC available at home. He would cry with no guilt for it, and when he got the PC, he would tear down the beast for two things: motors and magnets. One can only imagine his excitement when he managed to extract a big magnet from a speaker. He would play for hours, trying endlessly to make small metal rods float. That was his dream back then. In a recent interview with BBC, Mehdi admitted that this was, at some point, his life's purpose, and that one day he found a big magnet lying on the ground, right after he had spent hours crying to his mother to buy him one. It was the universe giving him what he deserved. Or some say it was the universe helping a mother out with her son's tantrums. That's up to you to decide. This passion later matured into a desire to build a flying car using magnets. He even made models and presented them very passionately to his father, who.. after perhaps many attempts from his son, turned down the idea of helping him build it. Very sad day for him. Though he keeps on building, with the same passion and the same dream.. and the only path forward is to never lose hope.

It is of interest to the public to note that Mehdi has never had a rattrapage. A clean record, if you ask him. Impeccable. Almost mythical. Some say he cheats, some say he has access to some secret alumini database. But one thing is sure, no second chances for him are needed. In the heat of summer, he won't be seen sweating over questions he already answered once. And that's the story, anyway. And like all good stories, it leaves just enough unsaid to keep it interesting. It remains a myth.. and it doesn't seem like he wants to correct it. Why would he?

Even before highschool, Mehdi was a music junkie. He wanted to replicate the tracks he heard while playing Geometry Dash. He started making simple beats with a program called LMMS, then leveled up to FL Studio. In high school, he sampled friends' audios, rapped for fun, and dropped cringy verses about girls.. yikes. But the turning point came when he met his producer friend Faris. Faris shared the same raw passion for music, and for the first time, Mehdi felt like he had found someone equally talented.

Mehdi invited Faris into his world through countless diss tracks, challenging him, pushing him. But Faris never ended up responding. In college, Mehdi used his tracks to playfully diss the ADE (Association des Étudiants), not out of hate, but for entertainement. His lyrics appeared to cut through the surface and exposed the tension between students and the system. Almost all of his songs came from an accidental beat, thrown together without intention but executed with instinct. They came raw, fast, and honest. People listened because it felt real, and because they maybe had nothing to do at that time.

Mehdi is actually never late, almost.
He developped a technique that most people would find unintuitive:
His watch is always set 15 minutes ahead.
That way, he always feels late, just to be on-time. This simple trick has helped him be punctual for almost five years at the time of writing this.

People who know him well, are aware of this quirk, and always remind him to adjust his watch.. until they give up.
And it remains fascinating how after all this years, his brain still gets tricked by this simple hack. even when he is aware of it.
It just works, for some reason.

That's why it is interesting to experiment with our own perception of time.
Or go even deeper, learn about our sub-conscious mind.

Mehdi watches how people talk, how they act, and what doesn't match. He doesn't speak much about it, but he writes when something feels real, or strange enough to keep, or simply worth remembering. And through his continuous game, one question perpetually stays in his mind, while he constantly defines separation between his self and others.

His observations and reflections are documented in his written works, where he explores ideas about passion, identity, discipline, and the patterns that shape human behavior. The articles serve as an extension of his philosophical inquiries, structured thoughts on questions that don't have easy answers.