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French Montana
Karim Kharbouch, the Moroccan and American rapper who records as French Montana, came to Bad Boy in a deal with Maybach Music Group and Interscope and went Top 5 with Excuse My French.
French Montana is proof that hustle has accents and winning has no zip code. Morocco raised him until he was 13, when his family moved to New York City. The city trained him, and the booth made him global.
He started out in the early 2000s as a battle rapper called Young French, then got noticed as the host of Cocaine City, a local DVD series where hip hop figures sat down for interviews. Mixtape pressure did the rest. The major-label move was a three-way partnership with Bad Boy, Maybach Music Group and Interscope that said, “We’re not playing small.”
Excuse My French landed in the Top 5 of the Billboard 200, and “Pop That” turned clubs into sweat lodges. He kept stacking: “Unforgettable” went diamond, which takes ears, timing and work, not luck.
French showed what the label kept proving: Bad Boy is a launchpad for artists who think worldwide and still rep where they’re from.
Discography 6
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