1980s – 2020sPeak: 2010s
French Hip-Hop
About French Hip-Hop
France has the second-largest hip-hop market in the world after the United States, with rap accounting for 42% of streaming listens in 2024. From MC Solaar's poetic wordplay in the late 1980s through IAM and NTM's banlieue fury to PNL's atmospheric trap, French rap has become the dominant genre in the country's musical landscape.