Josman

Josman lands at Place Bell in Laval on March 15, 2026. The French rapper and producer shapes a francophone rap that threads melodic trap, cloud rap influences and a boom bap backbone, with atmospheric textures and sung lines woven into the mix.

Born in 1992 in Vierzon to parents from Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo, he first surfaced in the mid-2010s with a run of online tracks before sharpening his universe on EPs like Matrix and 000$. His 2018 album J.O.$ marked a turning point, mixing snapshots of daily life with questions of identity, ambition and doubt, often on productions he co-signs with longtime collaborator Eazy Dew.

On stage, Josman uses autotune as a color, shifts flows from laid-back to incisive and leans into introspective writing that lingers on ordinary details, love and excess, with the haze and urgency of a prolonged adolescence never far. A regular across mid-size venues and francophone hip-hop festivals, he brings this evolving catalog to Quebec for a set that moves from vaporous hooks to tighter rap passages, tracing the path of his projects to date.