Lacrim is the stage name of Karim Zenoud, a French rapper born in Paris in 1985 to Algerian parents and raised in Chevilly-Larue, south of the city. He moved to Marseille in 2009 and first got noticed through features on tracks by Mister You.
His album Faites entrer Lacrim came out in 2012, followed by Corleone (2014) and Force & Honneur (2017). Force & Honneur includes "La Dolce Vita", and his R.I.P.R.O mixtape series has brought in guests such as Sadek, Gradur and, on "Dracula", the Italian rapper Sfera Ebbasta with the flautist Vladimir Cauchemar.