Mister V

Mister V, born Yvick Letexier, is a French rapper and video creator from Grenoble who built his audience online through comedic sketches and viral videos before turning that following toward music. He first gained attention through the comedy troupe Le Woop and through humorous solo tracks and collaborations that mixed rap with internet culture, a formula that let him move fluidly between YouTube stardom and the music charts.

His debut album Double V, released in 2017, confirmed that his online popularity translated into real commercial success, eventually going platinum in France. The record balanced playful, meme-friendly bars with more polished rap production, appealing to an audience that discovered him through video content as much as through streaming. His follow-up MVP, released in 2020 and expanded with a deluxe reissue in 2021 featuring new tracks, showed a rapper refining his sound while keeping the humor and pop-culture references that define his identity.

Mister V occupies a distinctive space in French rap, bridging the gap between mainstream hip-hop and internet entertainment. His ability to convert an online fanbase into sustained chart presence has made him one of the more unusual crossover success stories in French popular music, straddling comedy, video content and rap in a way few of his peers attempt.