Black Taboo

About

The artist

Black Taboo is a francophone hip-hop group and audiovisual collective from Orsainville in Québec City's Charlesbourg borough. Emerging from the city's underground scene in the late 1990s, the group circulated early songs and videos independently before developing a catalog built around exaggerated gangsta-rap characters, local slang, dark comedy, and deliberately explicit satire. Early releases include Stash ton Yaw, Au nom du pad et du vice, and Crosse-toé ça rend sourd. Members also extended the project through solo and related work under names including VICE and V.I.STREET. Black Taboo returned to its archives for Restants de Tab in 2022, assembling unreleased recordings, remixes, and collaborations with Taktika, Mononc' Serge, and Louis the 3rd. The group joined Taktika again for Vendredi 13 in December 2024 and continued performing in Québec City in 2025. Its official Bandcamp identifies Charlesbourg as its home and names Rich, Vice, Cory, Pete, Sifu, and Fayed as the collective's current voices and producers. Black Taboo occupies a distinctive place in Québec rap: its work uses parody, obscenity, fictional bravado, and neighbourhood references to build an abrasive comic mythology that is inseparable from its Orsainville roots.