The life of French Montana

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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

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