Test your knowledge of Ninho's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
The singles Ninho headlines give themselves away fast: 'Lettre a une femme', 'Jefe' and 'Goutte d'eau' land from the opening bars. These are his own tracks, and the easy points before the guest verses start.
The facts behind the run are their own kind of test: a real name most fans miss, a mixtape series that launched him, his first two albums both hitting No. 1. The details that decide a close game.
Ninho's catalog climbs in difficulty. Start with the diamond singles everyone names, then work through the lead-versus-feature trap, the M.I.L.S mixtape cuts, and the album tracks radio skipped.
Start with the songs that give themselves away from the first bar: the diamond-selling 'Lettre a une femme', the swagger of 'Jefe', and 'Goutte d'eau'. These are the singles Ninho headlines, the ones radio wore out, and the easy points at the top of any Ninho quiz.
This is the trap the whole quiz is built on. Ninho guests on so many other rappers' hits that a clip of his voice is as likely a feature as a lead, like his verse on Rim'K's 'Air Max'. Hearing Ninho is easy; deciding whether the track is actually his is the hard part.
Before the No. 1 albums there was the 'M.I.L.S' series, the mixtape run that built his base. The deep cuts from those tapes rarely reach casual listeners, so placing one from a short clip is what pushes a Ninho score into the top tier.
Every Ninho album carries songs that never became singles, the melodic confessionals and hard trap cuts buried inside 'Comme prevu', 'Destin' and 'Jefe'. Name one of these and you are guessing on ear alone, with no radio memory to lean on.
Put it to the test on Songtrivia. A Ninho quiz plays a short clip and asks you to name the track, then throws in the hard part: telling his own singles from the many hits where he only guests. Score high on both and you really know his catalog.
Ninho features on a huge number of French rap hits, so hearing his voice is not enough. The tracks that separate players are the ones where he is the guest, not the headliner, like Rim'K's 'Air Max'.
The fastest-named are his diamond singles, 'Lettre a une femme', 'Jefe' and 'Goutte d'eau'. Deeper in, the quiz pulls from the 'M.I.L.S' mixtapes and album cuts that never hit radio.
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Ninho's real name is William Nzobazola. He was born in 1996 and grew up in Les Ulis, in the Essonne department south of Paris.
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