Booba

From his real name Elie Yaffa Booba is a French rapper born in BoulogneBillancourt December 9 1976 Coming from a modest family Booba grew up in the HautsdeSeine During a trip to his Senegalese family he met one of his cousins named Boubacar and it was in homage to the latter that Booba would later take his stage name He meets Daddy Ali while he is still a hip hop dancer With him he set up his first group Lunatic While Booba had his first successes with Ali thanks to the titles Le Crime Paie and Les Vrais Savent he was imprisoned in 1997 for more than a year for robbing a taxi After this dark period Ali and Booba publish their album Mauvais Œil the album enters the history of French rap by obtaining the first gold record for an independent album The group separates and Booba leaves for a long hegemony on the throne of French rap which will begin with the cult Temps Mort published in 2002 and considered with LÉcole du Micro dArgent of the group IAM as the best French rap albums of all time Boobas texts were praised by Thomas Ravier in 2003 an author of La Nouvelle Revue Française an important French literary review created in 1908 who elevated him to the rank of writer comparing him to Céline and Artaud Thomas Ravier invents the neologism metagore mixture of metaphor and gore to qualify Boobas use of images Thomas Ravier invents the neologism metagore mixture of metaphor and gore to qualify Boobas use of images In total Booba will publish ten studio albums will sell more than 3 million records will obtain many certification records and is ranked fourth among the rappers who have sold the most albums in the history of French rap His first album Temps mort appeared in 2002 It was followed by Panthéon Ouest Side and 09 all certified and considered classics of French rap His fifth album Lunatic released in 2010 uses the name of his former group In 2012 Booba published his sixth opus entitled Futur In 2015 Booba released two albums DUC and Nero Nemesis In 2017 he released his 9th album Throne In 2021 ULTRA is announced as his last album On August 1 2018 a fight broke out between Booba and Kaaris at Orly airport The two rappers are arrested by the police and sentenced to one month in prison Booba fills the Stade de France on Saturday September 3 2022 and brings his 2 children Luna and Omar on stage in front of 81000 fans He is the first French rapper to give a concert at the Stade de France