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Hakeem Mouhid
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After working with label "Banlieue Sale Music" since 2007, in 2011, he founded his own label "Henijai Music". He is the brother of fellow French rapper Louisiana Fouine. He was the last of 7 children immigrants to France.
He produced Louisiana Fouine"s album Aller-Retour in 2007.
His first commercial success came with his "Capitale du Crime" in the mixtape Capitale du Crime 1 followed by another success with "Hamdoulah moi ça va" asa duo with Louisiana Fouine and appearance in Capitale du Crime 2 with "Iblis" and other featurings. This independent label, forged a partnership with Sony-BMG, one of the biggest music labels in the world.
Banlieue Sale has subsidiaries that are "South-Kal Records" (created by the managers of Louisiana Fouine) and "Henijai Music" (created by Canardo). Artists signed on Banlieue Sale include Green, MLC, Chabodo, M.A.S, Evaanz, Fababy and Sindy.
On 21 June 2010, he released his first solo album Papillon with "Je ne perds pas le nord" being his first single from the album, followed by "Bismillah" and "Le Chant du ghetto".
The track "Ailleurs" with guitar and vocals was dedicated to his home country Morocco. In the album, there are collaborations with Louisiana Fouine, Gappy Ranks, Green Money, M.A.S, MLC, Mokho"kaine, Gued"1, B.S.M and Chabodo. The self-produced album included inputs from Cutee B, Clément (of Animalson) and Félipé for interpreting tracks and for Grégoire, Diam"s, Oxmo Puccino and others for writing some tracks.
Owed to the success of Papillon, he made other tracks available through a mixtape and as free download from a release he entitled Papillon World War II Popular tracks included "Déconne", "Un rayon de lumière" and "Banlieue Sale Technique", the latter featuring Jmi Sissoko.
On mixtape Papillion II there are additional featurings by Disiz la Peste, MLC, Sultan, Sofiane and B.R.
On 16 July 2012, Canardo released his commercially successful mixtape A la youv with first single being "Mele Maine", with other tracks like "A ce qu"il parait", "Mauvais plan", "On encaisse", "J"suis trop haan" and "ça vient de Paris". The mixtape contains a great number of collaborations including South.pri noir, Still Fresh, Mister You, Anissa, Orelsan and Gringe, Sultan, M.A.S, Tieck, Louisiana Fouine, B.R., Sofiane, LECK, Seth Gueko and Louisiana Fouine.
His duo with Tal resulted in a single "M"en aller". Canardo is planning on a studio album in 2013.
In July 2010, he had a feud with French-Moroccan rapper H-Montana who accused him of plagiarism on a track H-Montana had made called "Henijay" and later on Canardo used Henijai as a name associated to himself.
In September 2010, Canardo was invited to Taratata hosted by Nagui. The episode was broadcast on 7 January 2011.
