Naps
Person · male · Algeria · Marseille · born 1986
French rapper
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Also known as ナップス
Timeline
1980s
2020s
Biography
Biography
Nabil Boukhobza (born 15 February 1986), better known by the stage name Naps, is a French rapper of Algerian origin. Coming from a suburb that is home to the Bel Air housing estate in Marseille, he started rapping in 2001 at the age of 15. Two years later he formed Click 11.43 with two other rappers, KOFS and Sahime. The formation had considerable following particularly with the incarcerated population in France. Naps also released his own solo materials and collaborated with many other artists.
Starting in 2021, he was accused of rape and sexual assault by several women and was imprisoned on multiple occasions beginning in 2024.,,,
As lead artist
- Did not appear in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the bubbling under Ultratip charts.
Other charted songs
- Did not appear in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the bubbling under Ultratip charts.
Disruption of a TGV train and theft
In 2013, after disrupting TGV traffic near Marseille, and attacking the occupants of a stopped TGV, Naps is arrested and charged with theft committed by a group, intentional damage to public property committed by a group, obstruction of rail traffic, and participation in a gathering with the intent to commit vandalism.
Rape
On 19 February 2026, Naps is found guilty of raping a 20-year-old woman on 30 September 2021 in Paris. He is sentenced to 7 years in jail with immediate incarceration, 7 years of ineligibility in France, and will be registered as a sex offender in France.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 3 | 16th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Naps head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 3 | 16th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Q3334530 | won |
Where this record comes from
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55008483seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naps_%28rapper%29biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naps_%28rapper%29
Why this artist is in the database
- List of hip-hop musicians
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Wikidata: Q55008483 · MusicBrainz: ce155ad5-afc8-4398-bf38-c99f02cd0814
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