After the release of his last album "Mes Repères", La Fouine went straight to number 2 on the top-list in France and sold over 15,000 copies during the first week. That put him as the second biggest rapper in France after Rohff. His popularity keeps growing in France and many refer to him as the biggest French upcoming rapper.

Born Laouni Mouhid in 1981, La Fouine grew up in Trappes, a distant suburb of Paris. The young Mouhid was raised listening to a variety of music, from Jacques Brel to the Jackson 5, with a fondness for rap acts like Snoop Dogg and NTM. He left school at 14 to become a rapper; he was a drug dealer by the age of 16. In 2003, having made a name for himself on the rap scene with a freestyle appearance on the mixtape Violences Urbaines, he was signed to Sony. He also became a mediator for youth groups in urban areas for his town at this time.


His first release for the label, after an interesting mixtape in 2004, reflected this: Bourré au Son, in 2005, was a real album of the streets, featuring pop hooks and hardhitting texts with a hopeful gist. In between this release and his second album, 2007's AllerRetour, he had a wellpublicized spat with fellow rapper Kamel l'Ancien, instructing him "Ferme Ta Gueule" on the unsubtly titled eponymous single. AllerRetour was a playful, confident album featuring quality collaborations with Booba and Amel Bent, and the Top 20 single "Qui Peut Me Stopper?"