Drake is onboard as an executive producer of French Montana’sforthcoming documentary surrounding his immigrant rags-to-riches story.
French, who moved from Morocco to The Bronx before achieving rap fame, joined Apple Music’s Ebro Darden for an episode of The Message celebrating Arab Heritage Month on Friday (April 21) where he further detailed what fans can expect from the doc.
“Well, this documentary just tells my immigrant story basically, and all the people that followed me from the day that I started till now,” he said around the nine-minute mark. “I feel like a lot of people know me, but a lot of people just know me by the music. A lot of people know me from me dating people. It could be this, it could be that, but I want people to know me for the right reasons and I feel like this documentary just is more based on the struggle.
“We was on welfare, to me getting shot, to me meeting Chinx, me meeting Max B. Max B be getting 75 years in jail. It’s the whole thing. It’s the whole enchilada. Me being almost blackballed after he went to jail. Me just going through all the obstacles.”
Montana continued: “Shout out to Drake for helping me do it. Shout out to Puff. Shout out to Max B for letting them cameras come inside that maximum security prison and helping me document it.
“Shout out to my mother. She never been on nothing. That was her first one and it just shows that me, her and my father came here not even speaking English and it shows that your temporary moment doesn’t have nothing to do with your long-term.”
Rather than highlight only the artistic accolades, the Coke Boys boss wants viewers to get a look into the life experiences that shaped him.
“I watch a lot of documentaries and I see a lot of people — this is not no shots at nobody — I see a lot of people just highlight the trophies and highlight the accomplishments and highlight why they got jerked by the Grammys and highlight this and highlight that and I really want to know the actual artists, you know what I’m saying,” he added. “Basically, it shows for me when I was young, from my mother met my pops, we came from Africa.”
French Montana and Drake have been friends for well over a decade and connected on many anthems throughout their decorated careers. That list of collabs includes “Pop That,” Rick Ross’ “Stay Schemin,” “No Stylist” and “No Shopping.”
It remains unclear how Montana plans to distribute the documentary and when exactly the project will be arriving.
Meanwhile, Drake has found himself in some hot water, as he’s being sued over a sample he used on his seventh studio album, Honestly, Nevermind.
Ghanaian artist Obrafour took legal action against Drizzy on Tuesday (April 18) through the U.S. District Court southern district of New York over a sample the Toronto rapper used on the track “Calling My Name.”
