Chronicles the unlikely rise of Moroccan born, diamond-selling recording artist, French Montana as his single mother sac | dG1fS1RrWmJPNG9yMDg
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00:00I'm about to put you on a story. See, I'm really from Africa.
00:05I came over here from Africa to the hood and I started this rap thing.
00:10And I'm going to take it to the top. This is the history you're looking at.
00:18Us watching America as kids.
00:22They sell you the dream.
00:24They don't show you that behind those buildings there's the nightmare part.
00:27It's like gladiator school. You either pray or you're a predator.
00:31All four of us had one room. It was the grind of all grinds.
00:35I was an immigrant with no papers. I can't go to college. I can't get a job.
00:40My pop didn't like the way French was going and he wanted to leave French.
00:45I just remember my mother working two, three jobs.
00:48I walked in on my mother one time crying, praying.
00:51You don't want to see your mother like that.
00:53What other options you got?
00:55Hit the streets.
00:58We were all slaying whatever we got to slay. Guns, coke, music.
01:05As he was getting hotter in the streets, he turned into an artist.
01:10Next thing you know we hooked up. We got in the studio and we was like brothers.
01:14At this time, me and Max would be running the city.
01:17It was him and his people against whoever.
01:20This young, untouchable mob boss from New York.
01:23Music controls the streets.
01:26I just see two dudes on the corner.
01:28He's like, yo bro, I got to come in and tell you something crazy.
01:31They just shot your brother.
01:33From that point on, I just seen his whole life shape.
01:36That was the breaking point.
01:39I got to stop and I got to start building my empire for my family.
01:49Shot Caller came out.
01:51It was his time, his first album.
01:52Everything he got, man, he earned it.
01:54French Montana has been named the most streamed African born artist.
01:58Feel like I'm fresh out the booth.
02:01Imagine her being in the States alone.
02:04Imagine not seeing your brothers and sisters for 20-something years.
02:07My brother locked up first.
02:09Chinks had just died.
02:11Max B, got 75 years.
02:13I was in the worst place you could be at.
02:15I met these kids.
02:17It's not about the notes you can hit or the raps that you can write.
02:20It's just people have to believe something about you.
02:23When my father left, a part of me died.
02:26And I never looked back for that part.
02:29This is the history you're looking at.