Lady Laistee
Aline Christophe, born in 1972 in Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe, is a French rapper
who began rapping in the early 1990s as part of the collective Le Complot des
Bas Fonds. After moving to the Paris region at age five, she entered the French
hip-hop scene and appeared on the 1996 compilation Les Cool Sessions 2 with
“Respecte mon attitude”. In 1999 she issued her debut studio album Black Mama,
which paid tribute to her brother Rudy, who was shot dead in 1996, on the hit
“Et si…?”; the track sold over 250,000 singles and ranked among the year’s
best-selling rap releases. She followed w...
