Mister You Explained

Mister You
Birth Name:Younes Latifi
Birth Date:5 February 1984
Birth Place:Paris, France
Alias:Mister You
Genre:Hip hop, French hip hop
Years Active:Since 2003
Label:No Time Records
Mercury Records

Younes Latifi (in French pronounced as /junɛs latiˈfi/; Arabic: يونس لطيفي; born 5 February 1984), better known by his stage name Mister You, is a French rapper of Moroccan descent known for his freestyles.

Career

Born in Paris, he was raised in the Belleville area of the capital city. He lived in the south of France trying to make a career in music.[1] His first official album was in December 2009 entitled Présumé coupable (meaning Presumed guilty).[1] When in 2009, the French police issued a warrant for assistance in his arrest, he gave an interview in October 2009 daring them to stop him. He accompanied that with a defiant underground indie album entitled Arrête You si tu peux (meaning Catch You if you can in French).[2]

Mister You has released new materials including mixtape and street album M.D.R. (or Mec De Rue) that incorporated cooperations with various rappers like Brutus & Lacrim, Tunisiano, Zesau and others and was released on 25 October 2010. It proved to be his biggest commercial success reaching #9 on the official French Albums Chart. Based on that success, he released a music video for "Les p'tits de chez moi", in duo with Mimma Mendhy.[3]

ON 31 October 2011, Mister You has released his third album "Dans ma grotte". The first single from the album was "Mets-toi à l'aise" featuring Colonel Reyel followed by "J'regarde en l'air".

Discography

Albums

YearSingleChartsCertificationNotes
FR
[4]
BEL
(Wa)

[5]
SWI
[6]
2011Dans ma grotte369
2014Le Prince835
2016Le grand méchant You2757
2019Hasta la muerte
(HLM: Hasta la muerte)
17
[7]
47
2021HLM2
(HLM2: Hasta la muerte 2)
64291
2023HLM3
(HLM3: Hasta la muerte 3)
175

EPs

Mixtapes, others

YearSingleChartsNotes
FR
BEL
(Wa)

2004Mi ange, mi demons
2007Cocktail de rue
2008La rue c'est paro
2009Arrete You si tu peux
2010Présumé coupable50
MDR Mec de rue9
2012MDR Mec de rue 21038

Singles

YearSinglePeak positionsAlbum
FR
BEL
(Wa)

2011"Ça sort du Zoogataga"
(feat. Tunisiano & Isleym)
66
"Funk You
(with DJ Abdel feat. Francisco)
122*
(Ultratip)
Dans ma grotte
"Mets-toi à l'aise"
(feat. Colonel Reyel)
3718*
(Ultratip)
"J'regarde en l'air"2537*
(Ultratip)
2012"Roule avec moi"
(feat. Djany)
148
"Crève en enfer" 139
2013"J'voulais" 48Le Prince
"3.5.7" 118
2014"A toi..." 82
"Paré pour décoller" 73
"Emmène-moi"
(feat. Nej)
26
"Marseille - Paris"
(with Jul)
86
2019"Flashback" 198
[8]
HLM: Hasta la muerte
"Carnal"
(feat. Lacrim)
169
[9]
2020"Pénurie" 89
"Ça se fait pas"
(feat. Jul)
53
2021"La costa" 27HLM2: Hasta la muerte 2
"Solide"
(feat. Rohff)
98
"Couplets gagnants"
(feat. L'Allemand)
179

Non charting

Featured in

YearSinglePeak positionsCertificationAlbum
FR
BEL
Wa

2013"Funk You 2"
(DJ Abdel feat. Mister You, Francisco & Big Ali)
11824*
(Ultratip)
DJ Abdel album
Evolution
"On va tout perdre"
(Lacrim feat. Mister You)
116
2015"Jugni ji"
(DJ Kayz feat. Mister You, Dr Zeus & Sophia Akkara)
43Planète Rap 2015 Vol. 2
2019"On passe le temps"
(Naps feat. Mister You)
129
2020"Culiacan"
(Da Uzi feat. Mister You)
67Da Uzi album
Architecte
"Ben Ali"
(Brulux feat. Mister You)
147Brulux album
La sans pitax

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.streetlive.fr/exclus/mister-you-en-cavale-interview-indite/ StreetLive: Mister You en cavale interview inédite
  2. http://lci.tf1.fr/france/faits-divers/2009-12/fin-de-cavale-pour-le-rappeur-mister-you-5577774.html TF1: Fin de cavale pour le rappeur "Mister You"
  3. Web site: - YouTube. YouTube.
  4. http://lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Mister+You LesCharts.com: Mister You page
  5. http://ultratop.be/fr/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Mister+You Ultratop.be/fr/: Mister You page
  6. http://swisscharts.ch/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Mister+You Swiss Hitparade: Mister You page
  7. Web site: Le Top de la semaine : Top Albums Fusionnes – SNEP (Week 28, 2019). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. French. 16 July 2019.
  8. Web site: Le Top de la semaine : Top Singles (téléchargement + streaming) – SNEP (Week 25, 2019). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. French. 25 June 2019.
  9. Web site: Le Top de la semaine : Top Singles (téléchargement + streaming) – SNEP (Week 26, 2019). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. French. 3 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190804101019/http://www.snepmusique.com/tops-semaine/top-singles-megafusion/?ye=2019&we=26. 4 August 2019. dead.