Who is KillASon? Let's talk about the promising French rapper

KillASon is a talented rapper from Paris, who besides music also dabbles in hip-hop dancing! KillASon released his debut album The Rize in January 2016. This was followed by the LP STW (2018), Supa Heroz (2019) and Wolf Tape (2021). The musician's YouTube channel has just over 12,000 subscribers: yes, KillASon is not yet one of those rappers who shine in the charts and see their videos explode the trends on YouTube... However - he has already managed to become a special figure in the French hip-hop landscape. And this is evidenced by several things: his lyrics, systematically interpreted in English, his visuals, always very stylised, and his videos, which are now created with the idea of creating a link between music and dance, cinema and the world of fashion....

Mixing genres allows him to further assert his uniqueness! Impressive flow, impeccable mastery of dance - his work is truly individual... Perhaps - it's just not for everyone? Or maybe not many people know about KillASon yet? Anyway, but the personality of this man deserves to be publicised! So: meet KillASon!

Brief biography of the artist

"Hoddest In My Town" - you may have seen this black and white clip on social media, with a particularly polished aesthetic and an almost hypnotic style... It's the first single from The Rize's 2016 album. In one of his interviews KillASon said:

"In music videos, I take the lead..."

To begin with, Marcus Dossavi-Gourdeau spent his entire childhood in Poitiers, where he watched hip-hop battles with interest:

"I came to Poitiers at the age of three and stayed there until I was 18," Marcus explains. My parents took me to hip hop shows, and from the age of eight or nine I was active in freestyles. I really started rapping when I was 14 years old..."

It was at this age that Marcus recorded his first track. Maturation took several years, and it wasn't until the summer of 2013 that the rap fan returned to the studio to record the seven tracks that make up his first EP...

"I wanted to stand out with musical content," says Marcus. By offering something similar to me, not by copying other people's ideas. I always try to live and work with quality..."

The son of a choreographer and sound engineer, Marcus certainly went to a good school! And today you can sense an assertive universe in him, ready to blossom and unfold in all directions... Already today, this young lad, who grew up in Poitiers and lives in Paris, shows the appetite, curiosity, diligence and intelligence with which great artists are made. Listening to KillASon makes you feel like you're rediscovering original hip-hop. And it's not about his music, which is resolutely forward-looking, no. It's all about his unbridled curiosity and immense thirst for self-expression, multimedia and versatile talent. Marcus spoke about his first musical emotions as follows:

"They go back to my very early years when I was 3 years old. I have pretty vivid memories of hip-hop, electro and reggae. My parents are artists and I got immersed in all of that very early on. My mum is a choreographer and my stepdad is a musician. Today he is my artistic producer, my advisor and my mentor, and my mum is my manager. It's a family business..." (grinning ear to ear).

As for live performances - KillASon emphatically states:

"I can't stand artists who on stage are content to perform over a phonogram. At such concerts I feel like I've been fooled! For me, a concert should be a real exchange: something physical, for example in dance. That's the energy I want to find on stage..."

About the debut record

His first album The Rize, released in January 2016 on independent label Fin de Siècle, is a cosmic UFO. A sophisticated record of liberated rap in which KillASon experiments with pop and electronic music... Themes and various characters are also on display in this delirious and falsely dark kaleidoscope unlike anything known. Nevertheless we can detect his family ties with Outkast, Tyler The Creator, Raury, Danny Brown or Childish Gambino: he is also in favour of absolute freedom of formulation and for the ability to maintain multiple personalities!

The Rize is a dense and ambitious first disc, but at the same time imperfect and clumsy (so much so KillASon wanted to show all his facets and all his talents). However, if the rapper is still searching for himself, the singularity he displays is evident. Behind the sketch, a huge potential is already emerging....

Just a little something last

KillASon is definitely a very interesting person in the world of rap music. The young musician shows great promise, and only time will tell what will happen next.

"I'm really into lyrics, I try to bring something to the table, to tell stories... I don't want to always have the same themes and the same flows. The Rize is quite a self-centred sound with a twist, while in the song 'The Mind's Eye' I mix the worlds of dreams and love, I'm talking about this complex woman with many faces that you can fall in love with in your dreams... 'Black Crook' is a story about a cursed wizard who wants to find the heart of his beloved and create the most beautiful ring in the universe, and is fooled by the Devil..."

What exactly does KillASon want to convey to the world with his creativity? The musician answered this question:

"I wanted to show that I was coming and that I was going to be dealt with (laughs). It's an exhibition of all my facets, everything I can do. Suddenly it was very diverse, but it was necessary because I wanted my personality to be really open to people... And I'm not going to hide!"