Samir Flynn

Biography

Samir Flynn is a Toulouse-based rapper of Tunisian and Irish descent, a blend he embraces as a driving force of his artistic identity. Immersed in music from an early age (drums, piano, choir), he discovered rap in high school through open-mic sessions and pursued it at the University of Mirail, where he set up a home studio in his shared flat. Quickly involved in the local scene, he collaborated with the association Bajo el Mar and the LVL UP collective, and between 2020 and 2022 took part in running an artistic squat called “Cluster,” which served as a living space, studio, and political hub, where he recorded for himself and other rappers from Toulouse’s SoundCloud scene. In 2023, he made...