Yassin Alsalman, better known by his stage name Narcy (formerly The Narcicyst), is an Iraqi-Canadian journalist and hip-hop MC. He currently resides in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Alsalman's parents are originally from Basra, Iraq but emigrated to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the 1970s.[1] Yassin was born in Dubai in 1982. In 1987, at the age of five, he and his family moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[2] Yassin spent much of his youth moving back and forth between Canada and the UAE