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Kaaris
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...
