He has changed a lot, La Fouine. From now on, the rapper from Trappes, in Yvelines, will meet in a five-star establishment on 1is district of Paris, the Hôtel Costes. In the mid-2000s, he was more the type to give you the address of a kebab shop or a square where he used to meet his friends in the evening. Recognizable by his goatee braided like that of a pharaoh, he then arrived in his city car, a hit of Lorie blasting on the car radio, I will be (your best friend).
Laouni Mouhid, at the civil registry, who nicknamed himself La Fouine because of his slender silhouette, was not afraid of ridicule. He played the shift constantly, assumed his taste for variety. In his raps, he recounted his years as a petty criminal in From the farm, called to raise our heads in Hamdoulah this waydreamed of a tidy life with his sweetheart, Fell for her or My best.
Before Soprano, Gims, Disiz or Damso, he knew that rap would become the new French variety by singing the choruses as much as rapping them. “His suburban variety”, as he called it, earned him first mockery, and then, very quickly, the respect of his peers when the platinum records piled up.
Assuaged
Fifteen years later, this recognition is still relevant today. On April 25, La Fouine returned to the stage of the Théâtre du Châtelet for the Flammes ceremony, which rewards rap, dancehall and R’n’B artists. Accompanied by violinists, he then offered a medley of his old hits. At the same time, he scheduled two (sold out) concerts for April 2025 at the Accor Arena in Paris, and published, on November 22, Capital of Crime Radio, a new album with the young rap generation.
La Fouine therefore makes his comeback, completely transformed. The jovial young madman, who looked like a big daddy with his 1.98 meter height, has become an imposing hulk, worthy of MMA champions. With a well-trimmed beard, the forty-year-old has doubled his build and seems completely calmer. In one of the Costes salons, Trappes’ friends are still there and wisely accompany Laouni in his return to work. In the mid-2010s, La Fouine disappeared from the radar screens.
Bruised by a clash on the Internet with his former friend the rapper Booba, with whom he had recorded the duet Stay like a dog, the Ile-de-France resident went to live in the United States. The verbal joust had left the artistic domain. In 2013, the two rappers came to blows, filmed fighting in the parking lot of their shared residence in Miami. The same year, La Fouine even came under fire when returning home after an evening where he had just released his fifth album, Funny journey. A year later, the case was dismissed.
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