“For Khadija” is billed as a documentary about French Montana, but there’s a reason that it’s named not after the hip-hop alter ego of Moroccan expatriate Karim Kharbouch, but his mother. “I felt l…
, but there’s a reason that it’s named not after the hip-hop alter ego of Moroccan expatriate Karim Kharbouch, but his mother. “I felt like my mother’s story, the beginning to the end, the closure of her going back to Morocco, is when I was like, okay, now the story has a meaning,” French tells. “This goes out to all the mothers that struggle, that have kids, that was forced to sacrifice.”
Was telling the story of your life and career through this documentary something you were eager to do? Honestly, it wasn’t all just gangster rap. I listened to La Bouche, I listened to a lot of techno music. I came here at 13, but I was sneaking into the club when I think I was 10 years old listening to techno music and watching people break dancing in Morocco. I had an older cousin that would take me, and I was just fascinated with the life.
A lot of your big songs reimagine classic samples — “Shot Collar” with Lords of the Underground’s “Funky Child,” “Bring Dem Things” with Organized Konfusion, “New Thing” using Showbiz and AG. Is that a specific byproduct of you considering yourself a student of hip hop?
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