“They showed us the Empire State building… I thought we were going to live there,” said Montana, who immigrated from Morocco and lived in the Bronx.
French Montana tells Page Six that before discovering the American dream as a hit rapper, he experienced “the American nightmare” as an immigrant in NYC.
“When they showed us the Empire State building — and all the buildings downtown — I thought we were going to live there. But when we came to the states we had to go to [the] Mott Haven projects,” in the Bronx, he recalled. The 38-year-old, who immigrated from Morocco, became a US citizen in 2018. He premiered his new autobiographical documentary, “For Khadija,” at the Tribeca Festival.
“It was a whole different thing. It was a culture shock, it was jungle rules,” he said of his time growing up in the Bronx.French Montana says he experienced the American nightmare before living the American dream.“I went through every level of struggle, every level of disrespect, every level of not understanding — and every step that was there I was there to take,” he told us. “Whether it was work or school, I just had to go through it.”He said that as a kid, “Yeah of course I was made fun of.
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