Born Karim Kharbouch in Morocco, he moved to The Bronx at the age of 13, where he was given the nickname "French." Soon, French Montana would make his mark on hip hop, but not without controversy ...
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00:00Came over here from Africa to the hood and they gave me the name French and I started this rap thing
00:04This is history looking
00:31You have to be molded a certain way to come out the brother had to be a hustler can't take no for an answer
00:38ambitious the eye of the tiger
00:44When I came from Morocco they used to call me Bonjour
00:47I was like, I don't like that and then they start calling me French because when I first came here
00:50I used to speak French first
01:00Oh
01:06Slang whatever we got a sling
01:22The fat Joe, are you kidding me? I take off the street right now
01:26And make him make the money fat Joe me right now
01:30I
01:34Bumped into this guy named Max B and
01:37Chinks and everybody at the time and that's when we came out with coke wave one two three. We went on the whole run
01:43I
01:57What did you learn from from being married and having children what was your biggest lesson in that never get married again
02:13I
02:44Got like I'm in the club sometimes and like people is drunk talking to you. Yeah, you can't hear nothing
02:56It's looking at the baddest motherfuckers, yeah, I'm just happy that I get to kind of have a front seat to see him shine
03:03And do his thing
03:13I
03:33Ain't no nappy with the racist world, you know, I know like, you know
03:37If you call somebody like, you know, like they nappy like you saying like they black
03:43I
04:02Want to see how the people living I don't want to just come and take the culture and not help
04:13I
04:19Walked in on my mother one time crying praying
04:22You don't want to see your mother like that
04:24Well the options you got documentary was about me at first
04:28But then after everybody watched it and my mother stole the show