Abd Al Malik

Abd Al Malik is a French rapper, poet, novelist, essayist, activist, screenwriter and film director of Congolese origin.

Born in Paris on March 14, 1975, he grew up in Strasbourg's most difficult HLM housing estate (Neuhof). Now one of France's most prolific and revered artists, he is the only hip hop artist to have won 4 consecutive Victoires de la Musique awards for each of his solo albums.

In 2008, he was named both Artist of the Year and Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In August 2009, Jeune Afrique magazine named him one of the "100 most important personalities of the African diaspora". The following year, with his second book, La guerre des banlieues n'aura pas lieu, he won the Edgar-Faure Prize for Political Literature, and adapted his bestseller Qu'Allah bénisse la France ! (May Allah bless France), which received 2 César nominations (2015) and the Prix de la Critique Internationale (Prix FIPRESCI, 2014) at the Toronto Film Festival. His second solo album, Gibraltar (2006), is a benchmark in hip hop, jazz and French chanson. It is also considered, across all genres, one of the most important French albums of the last 20 years. In 2016, he released his latest album Scarification and his novel Camus, l'art de la révolte with Fayard. In 2019, he publishes his first novel, Méchantes blessures, with Editions Plon. That same year, he directed Albert Camus' play "Les Justes" at the Théâtre du Châtelet.

Abd Al Malik shares his life with the wonder girl of French R&B, singer-songwriter Wallen, with whom he has four children and with whom he forms the most influential and emblematic couple in the French hip hop and rap scene.