Laylow

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Background information
Birth nameJeremy Larroux
Born Toulouse, France
GenresFrench rap, hip hop
OccupationRapper
InstrumentVocals
Years active2012–present
LabelsDigital Mundo
Website https://laylow.netlify.app/

Jeremy Larroux (born 1993), better known as Laylow is a French rapper from Toulouse. [1] In 2018, Laylow released the EPs .RAW and RAW-Z. His first album, Trinity, featured collaborations with Lomepal, S.Pri Noir, Jok'Air, Wit., Alpha Wann, and was released on 28 February 2020. [2] The album reached number 3 in the French Albums Charts. The follow-up L'étrange histoire de Mr. Anderson peaked at number 1 with collaborations with Damso, Nekfeu, Hamza, Alpha Wann and Slowthai.

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Early life

Laylow was born in 1993 in Toulouse, a city in southern France, where lived there until the age of nine, when he left for Tunisia with his father briefly, before joining his mother in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He then spent some time in the city of Mirande in the Gers at a boarding school, where he met his future manager, and ended up settling in Toulouse. It was at this age that he began to rap after his older brother introduced him to the art. He was influenced by American artists such as Ja Rule or G-Unit, the bling-bling side of rappers impressing him from his childhood, with French rap coming to him a little later.

Career

Beginnings

He began his career with Toulouse artist Sir'Klo to form the duo Laylow x Sir'Klo. After a first song called "Attrape nous si tu peux" featuring Wit. Published in 2011, they released their first joint project two years later, "Roulette Russe", as a presentation. Influenced by American rap and especially West Coast rap, this project allowed them to be known little by little in French rap. Signed with Barclay, the Toulouse residents released the same year a new free project. It was also in 2011 that he made a stint in the Rap Contenders Sud.

Laylow joined Montpellier's Wit. for a joint EP, Digital Night, released in November 2015. An 8 track EP accompanied with eight clips with TBMA, the beginning of long collaborations, both with the rapper and the production team.

First solo EPs

After several titles and clips published in 2016, he launched his solo career more concretely with Mercy, an EP of ten titles released in December 2016 where he invited various artists featuring including Wit again on two tracks, and armed himself again with the TBMA team, becoming the manufacturing brand of his so-called "futuristic" clips.

His second project released on 5 July 2017, Digitalova, again contained ten titles and new artist collaborations, with Jok'Air and his sidekick Sir'Klo always accompanied by TBMA for the visuals.

His third solo project of ten titles, .RAW was released on 19 June 2018 and hosted a unique featuring with Wit. The fourth project soon followed on 7 December of the same year: a ten-track EP entitled .RAW -Z and announced only three days before its release, which proved most successful, sincere of his projects followed with a tour in 2019.

Debut album: Trinity

After four EPs, Laylow abandoned the format in favor of his first studio album Trinity, released on 28 February 2020. [3] Three titles were pre-released: "Megatron", "TrinityVille" and "Poizon" before releasing the album, an ambitious opus of 22 tracks with multiple emotions which follows a singular storytelling in French rap, in which the artist finds himself faced with the use of an emotional stimulation software: Trinity. A critical and commercial success for an artist of his stature which allowed him to once again cross a milestone in his career and his identification in French rap.

Discography

Albums

TitleYearPeak positions
FRA
[4]
BEL
(Fl)

[5]
BEL
(Wa)

[6]
SWI
[7]
Trinity20204172719
L'étrange histoire de Mr. Anderson20211
[8]
2014

Maxis

TitleYearPeak positions
FRA
[4]
Digital Night2015
Mercy2016
Digitalova2017
.RAW2018
.RAW-Z2019175

Singles

TitleYearPeak positionsAlbum / Maxi
FRA
[4]
BEL
(Wa)

[6]
"Digitalova"2017Digitalova
"Gogo"
(feat. Jok'air)
"Brrr"
(with Vladimir Cauchemar & Asdek featuring Rim'K)
202177Non-album singles
"Une histoire étrange"202420
TitleYearPeak positionsAlbum
FRA
[4]
"Money Call"
(Shayfeen feat. Laylow & MADD)
2018Album Shayfeen
Safar
"Sang froid"
(Sneazzy feat. Laylow)
2020154Sneazzy album
Nouvo Mode
"Démons"
(Joanna feat. Laylow)
Joanna album
Sérotonine
"Ciel pleure"
(Dinos feat. Laylow)
24Dinos album
Stamina,

Other songs

TitleYearPeak positionsAlbum
FRA
[4]
BEL
(Wa)

[6]
SWI
[7]
"Burning Man"
(feat. Lomepal)
202062Trinity
"Dehors dans la night"74
"Plug"
(feat. Jok'Air)
85
"Vamonos"
(feat. Alpha Wann)
109
"Trinityville"126
"Megatron"131
"Poizon"133
"Hillz"
(feat. S.Pri Noir)
138
"Longue vie..."144
"Piranha Baby"155
"Logiciel triste"162
"Nakré"181
"Million Flowerz"187
"...de bâtard"
(feat. Wit.)
189
"Akanizer"194
"Batards"
(feat. Koba LaD)
202199Koba LaD album
Cartel vol. 1
"R9R-Line"
(feat. Damso)
42555L'étrange histoire de Mr. Anderson
"Special"
(feat. Nekfeu & Foushée)
74591
"Iverson"14
"Window Shopper Part. 2"
(feat. Hamza)
17
"Un rêve étrange"25
"Stuntmen"
(feat. Alpha Wann & Wit.)
26
"Voir le monde brûler"27
"Une histoire étrange"31
"Lost Forest"35
"Ça va pas etre possible..."43
"Que la pluie"46
"Help"50
"Bonsoir mon vieil ami"51
"Tu veux déjà me dire aurevoir?"52
"Fallen Angels"
(feat. Slowthai)
55
"NightShop BlaBla"66
"+ de pluie..."79
"C'est eux contre nous"86
"Tu comprends maintenant"90

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