French Montana praise 2Pac as he remembers the first album he ever bought.
French Montana recently made an appearance at Rock The Bells Radio on SiriusXM, where the “Unforgettable” hitmaker praised rap icons like Nas, Big Pun, and Biggie. The rapper also shouted out the late Tupac, who influenced him at an early age, as he was listening to “All Eyez On Me” album when he didn’t even know English.
“I was listening to that when I didn’t even know English,” he recalled. “I was listening to it in Africa. It was the first album I ever bought. I felt his pain, his passion, I felt his comeback, and I didn’t even understand English. I felt it was that powerful, and it was that spiritual, and it was bigger than music. That’s when I felt that, you know, music is the only language that everybody speaks in the world.”
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Montana who immigrated from Morocco to the US at the age of 13, is prepping the release of his new documentary which will show his full story with executive production from Drake. “Well, this documentary just tells my immigrant story basically, and all the people that followed me from the day that I started till now,” he said in a previous interview with Ebro Darden on Apple Music. “I feel like a lot of people know me, but a lot of people just know me by the music. A lot of people know me from me dating people. It could be this, it could be that, but I want people to know me for the right reasons and I feel like this documentary just is more based on the struggle.
“We was on welfare, to me getting shot, to me meeting Chinx, me meeting Max B. Max B be getting 75 years in jail. It’s the whole thing. It’s the whole enchilada. Me being almost blackballed after he went to jail. Me just going through all the obstacles.”
He continued, “Shout out to Drake for helping me do it. Shout out to Puff. Shout out to Max B for letting them cameras come inside that maximum security prison and helping me document it. Shout out to my mother. She never been on nothing. That was her first one and it just shows that me, her and my father came here not even speaking English and it shows that your temporary moment doesn’t have nothing to do with your long-term.”
In his career, Montana released four studio albums, with the most recent “They Got Amnesia” in 2021. The star-studded project featured Pop Smoke, Lil Durk, Doja Cat, Saweetie, Fivio Foreign, Fabolous, John Legend, Rick Ross, Kodak Black, 42 Dugg, Ty Dolla Sign, Latto, Lil Tjay and more. The project debuted and peaked at number 59 on the Billboard 200 for the chart week ending December 4, 2021.
