Maes

Walid Georgey (born 10 January 1995), better known by the stage name Maes, is a French rapper of Moroccan origin from Sevran.He has released two albums and a number of singles and is best known for "Madrina" featuring French rapper Booba.

Maes grew up in Beaudottes in Sevran in the northeastern suburbs of Paris with his parents, his 5 brothers and 2 sisters and started rapping at age of 14 forming his rap formation MSR with his friends Radmo and SY3.After college, Maes served a sentence for 18 months in maison d'arrêt de Villepinte from 2016 to 2017. During his incarceration, he released a number of releases and a mixtape Réelle Vie. After release from detention, he released #MaesEstLibérable, and debuted as a supporting act for the groupe 13 Block at the gig in La Bellevilloise on 10 December 2017. On 2 March 2018, he released a second mixtape Réelle Vie 2.0 and upon its success was signed to the Millenium label, part of Capitol Music France. With the single "Madrina" featuring Booba, he topped SNEP, the French Singles Chart. The music video was shot in Bogota.With Millenium, he had released the albums Pure in 2018 and Les derniers salopards in 2020.