Hamza Khadraoui, known as Ashe 22, was born in Bab El Oued, Algiers, on December 21, 1996, and moved to Lyon, France, around age ten. He came up through Lyonzon, the rap collective that shaped much of Lyon's scene, before going solo, rapping in a low, measured, half-mumbled flow.
He released his first mixtape, Ashe Tape, Vol. 1, in March 2019, produced entirely by the collective's beatmaker GG, then followed it with Free Splash and Ashe Tape, Vol. 2 later that year. In 2022 he teamed up with Freeze Corleone on the joint project Riyad Sadio, and in 2023 he put out his first true solo album, Vingt-Deux, nineteen tracks including guest spots from Rim'K and others.