Faf Larage

	Chart positions ; Explanation of the data
	Albums
	C'est ma cause
	Flics et hors de loi ; (with Eben as Gomez & Tavarès)
	Rap stories
	Singles
	La garde meurt mais ne se rend pas ; (with Shurik'n )
	Hôtel Commissariat ; (with Eben as Gomez & Tavarès)
	Ronde de nuit ; (with Eben as Gomez & Tavarès)
	L'Américain ; (with Akhenaton)
	Pas le temps
	Ta meuf (la caille)
	C'est pas ma faute

Faf Larage (also Faf La Rage; real name Raphaël Mussard ; * 1971 in Marseille ) is a French rapper from Marseille, who originally comes from the overseas department of Réunion .

biography

Faf started with the band Soul Swing Radikal , but at the end of the 90s he was an independent rapper. With La garde meurt mais ne se rend pas he had a great success in the French singles charts in 1998 together with his older brother Shurik'n , who is a member of the rap formation IAM . It followed the following year with C'est ma cause, his first solo album, which was able to build on the success.

In the following years Larage established himself in French rap with his own singles and collaborations, but there were no more hits for the time being. It wasn't until 2003 that he made a name for himself again with the rapper Eben . Two years earlier, the song Gomez et Tavarès: Les ripoux , which was about two corrupt police officers, was released. The director Gilles Paquet-Brenner took the idea for a feature film from this template ( Gomez & Tavarès , German title Pay Off - Die Abrechnung ). For the film music, the two rappers parodied a police duo, Eden was Gomez and Larage called himself Dubois (the successor to the missing Tavarès). Together they recorded the classic Hotel California as a raparody under the title "Hôtel Commissariat" for the film soundtrack. They called it "cop rap" as an answer to gangsta rap . This project threw off two top 10 singles, the album Flics et hors la loi was not only successful in the charts, but was also nominated for the national French music award Victoires de la Musique as rap album of the year.

In the years that followed, Faf Larage stayed true to the film. In 2004 he succeeded together with the IAM rapper Akhenaton another hit parade entry. The song L'Américain was the score for the French film of the same name by director Patrick Timsit .

It was also a theme music that helped him to his big solo breakthrough and his greatest success in 2006. For the US series Prison Break he played the theme tune for the French broadcast and the great success of the television series was followed by the jump of Pas le temps to the top of the French charts, where the song was able to hold for six weeks. As a result, the rapper also gained great popularity in the French-speaking parts of neighboring countries and was number 1 in the Belgian regional charts and in the top 10 of the official Swiss charts.

At the beginning of 2007, Faf Larage followed up with the album Rap Stories and was able to land at the top of the charts again with the single Ta meuf (la caille) at number 2.

Discography

Albums

1999 - C'est ma cause
2000 - La Garde (with Shurik'n )
2003 - Flics et hors la loi (Gomez & Dubois)
2007 - Rap Stories

Singles

1997 - Le Fainéant
1998 - La garde meurt mais ne se rend pas (with Shurik'n )
2003 - Le couteau entre les dents (with IAM )
2003 - Hôtel Commissariat (Gomez & Dubois)
2003 - Ronde de nuit (Gomez & Dubois)
2004 - L'Américain (with Akhenaton )
2006 - Pas le temps
2007 - Ta meuf (la caille)

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Individual evidence

↑ Chart sources: FR CH
↑ Awards for music sales: FR FR2

personal data
SURNAME	Larage, Faf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	La Rage, Faf (notation); Mussard, Raphaël (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	french rapper
DATE OF BIRTH	1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marseille

[1] Chart sources: FR CH

[Ausz.-2] Awards for music sales: FR FR2