Many teenagers dream about starting a career in sport or music. In 2019, the
young French teenager Nordine Arabat (February 4, 2002) was able to take the
first steps into becoming both, for at the age of 17 he simultaneously released
his debut album and signed a deal with the prominent French football club FC
Sochaux-Montbéliard. Arabat had been a midfielder with the AS Meudon youth team
and for some time had been balancing the demands of being a footballer whilst
perfecting his rap technique and publicising his material through social media.
His freestyle raps had begun to build...