Werenoi

A French rapper from Melun (Seine-et-Marne), where he was born on January 30, 1994, Werenoi grew up in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis. He has chosen not to divulge any details about himself, preferring the public to concentrate on his discography. This, with its dark atmosphere chronicling life in the suburbs, opens in 2021 with the track "Guadalajara" . This was followed by "9.17", "Fort" and, above all, "La League", which garnered 18 million views on the Internet and enabled him to reach a wide audience. " Solitaire" also aroused interest, quickly going gold. In 2022, he releases a new series of singles: "Des ténèbres", "Derek", "Scarface", "Criminel" and "Balmain ". It precedes a first project, the Telegram EP (2022), which includes collaborations with Rimkus and Maes. In 2023, he released the 19-track album Carré , which boasted contributions from Tiakola, Ninho, Lacrim and PLK. The album proved a huge success, reaching No. 2 in the French sales and listening charts. Not content with this success, Werenoi unveiled his second project of the year in September 2023 with the Telegram 2 EP, featuring eight tracks, including one in collaboration with Marseilles rapper SCH ("Magot"), and this time reaching No. 1. Crowned "male revelation of the year" at the Flammes ceremony in 2023, Werenoi continued to multiply his collaborations, while working on the Pyramide album (2024), ranked #2, featuring Damso, Aya Nakamura, SDM, Hamza, SCH and Maes, whose title track reached #1. Released in April 2025, his third album Diamant Noir (#1 in France, Belgium and Switzerland) brought him a new #1 single with "Triple V", a collaboration with Damso and Ninho featuring alongside others with SDM, Vacra, Kalash, Lil Tjay, Dystinct, No Limit and Gunna. Five days after winning the Flammes de 2025 award for Album of the Year, Werenoi succumbed to heart failure at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital (Paris) on May 17, 2025, aged 31. At the time, he was the best-selling artist of the years 2023 and 2024.