Élie Yaffa (born December 9, 1976 in Boulogne-Billancourt), better known under his stage name Booba, with additional aliases B2OBA, B2O and Le Duc de Boulogne, is a French rapper. Half Senegalese from his father's side and half French from his mother's side, he was born and raised in Paris suburbs. He started his music career as a teenager as a break dancer in La Cliqua, then he formed a duo called Lunatic with another parisian rapper, Ali. He quickly started acquiring fame in the early 2000s and ultimately became an icon of French rap music in the late 2000s, selling more than one million discs over his career and becoming the most legally downloaded artist in French history.