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Kaaris

Rap music

Gangsta rap

French rap

Full of swaggering showmanship with visceral, extravagant portraits of street life, Kaaris has been a notorious voice of the French gangsta rap scene since the late 2000s, rising from cult underground MC to become a controversial, high-profile star of European hip-hop. Growing up in the North East Parisian suburbs of Sevran from the age of three, Kaaris (born January 30th, 1980), whose real name is Okou Armand Gnakouri, briefly returned to his homeland of the Ivory Coast in 2003 to work with his brother, but made his way back to France when civil war broke out. He'd grown up writ...