La Fouine

Created Laouni Mouhid in 1981, La Fouine was raised in Trappes, a distant suburb of Paris. The youthful Mouhid grew up listening to a number of music, from Jacques Brel towards the Jackson 5, using a fondness for rap works like Snoop Dogg and NTM. He still left college at 14 to become rapper; he was a medication dealer by age 16. In 2003, having produced a name for himself over the rap picture using a freestyle appearance over the mixtape Violences Urbaines, he was agreed upon to Sony. He also became a mediator for youngsters groups in cities for his city at the moment. His first discharge for the label, after a fascinating mixtape in 2004, shown this: Bourré au Kid, in 2005, was a genuine album from the roads, offering pop hooks and hard-hitting text messages using a hopeful gist. Among this discharge and his second record, 2007’s Aller-Retour, he previously a well-publicized spat with fellow rapper Kamelancien, instructing him “Ferme Ta Gueule” over the unsubtly entitled eponymous one. Aller-Retour was a playful, self-confident album offering quality collaborations with Booba and Amel Bent and the very best 20 one “Qui Peut Me Stopper?” The rapper started a mixtape series in 2008 entitled Capitale du Criminal offense, which included monitors from a few of France’s most prominent hip-hop performers, such as for example Nessbeal and MLC. A yr later on his third full-length, Mes Reperes, made an appearance and included collaborations with fellow countrymen Soprano and Seyfu. In 2011 La Fouine released his seminal dual recording La Fouine vs. Laouni, which topped the French graph and was praised because of its candid, personal portrayal of two edges to his existence. This ambitious record noticed the discs performed out first from the bad-boy picture of his rapper alter ego, La Fouine, as the second disk portrayed an individual side which was acknowledged under his personal name, Laouni Mouhid. Exactly the same year, the 3rd installment of his Capitale du Criminal offense mixtape series — the next came this year 2010 — premiered and presented the cream of French skill and a visitor place from U.S. rapper T-Pain. His group of fans continuing to swell, and in 2013 his 5th recording, Drôle de Parcours, was an enormous achievement in French-speaking countries across European countries and was number 1 for another successive launch in his homeland.