Moroccan-American rapper

French Montana

Karim Kharbouch, known professionally as French Montana, is a Moroccan and American rapper. Born and raised in Morocco, he immigrated to New York City with his family at the age of 13 and began his career as a battle rapper in the early 2000s — under the name Young French. He first gained recognition hosting the locally-tailored DVD series Cocaine City during the 2000s, which centered around interviews of hip hop figures. He pursued a recording career while doing so, releasing several underground projects before signing with Sean Combs's Bad Boy Records and Rick Ross's Maybach Music Group, in a triple-joint venture with Interscope Records in 2012.

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1984

November 9

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1980s

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694 At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
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1277 The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement forced on Llywelyn ap Gruffudd by King Edward I of England, brings a temporary end to the Welsh Wars.
1307 Knights Templar officer Hugues de Pairaud is forced to confess during the Trials of the Knights Templar. He was persecuted on the charges of false idolism and sodomy.

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The world in 1984

When French arrived

april 1 Singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in his home in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles, California.
april 4 President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
april 6 Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
august 1 Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England.

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Anne Sexton 1928–1974 American poet and academic (died 1974) Ed Wynn 1886–1966 American actor and comedian (born 1886) Florence R. Sabin 1871– American medical scientist (died 1953) Gabrielle Miller 1973– Canadian actress and director Martin Chemnitz 1522–1586 Lutheran theologian and reformer (born 1522) Maud Howe Elliott 1854–1948 American novelist (born 1854) Otfrid Foerster 1873–1941 German neurologist and physician (born 1873) Paul Cameron 1939– American psychologist and academic Peter Lumsden 1829–1918 English general (died 1918)

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Mark Zuckerberg 1984– American computer programmer and businessman, co-founded Facebook Alastair Cook 1984– English cricketer Aleks Marić 1984– Australian basketball player Alexandra Kosteniuk 1984– Russian chess player Antoine Wright 1984– American basketball player Ashlee Simpson 1984– American singer-songwriter and actress Baruto Kaito 1984– Estonian sumo wrestler Bernard Pollard 1984– American football player Calvin Harris 1984– Scottish singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer

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