French the Kid: ‘I had to prove myself in Toulouse – they hated English people’

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French the Kid: ‘I had to prove myself in Toulouse – they hated English people’
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The Essex-born, Toulouse-raised rapper has blazed a bilingual trail as one of the most unique young artists in the UK. He talks to Roisin O'Connor about his long-awaited debut mixtape, having to prove himself to his French classmates, and coping with unexpected fame

His mum gave him a choice ahead of his exams: if he passed, he could go and live with his dad, in England. If he failed, she’d let him join the army. “I was so bad in school, I was a little s***, and I had a lot of energy,” he says. Somehow, he scraped his exams, but living with his dad didn’t turn out the way he’d planned. “I wasn’t there for long,” he says. “I think we’re very similar, and so we didn’t get on.

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