Okou Gnakouri, known by his stage name Kaaris (, ; stylized as KΛΛRIS), is a French rapper.
Kaaris was raised in Sevran in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, northeast of Paris.
Kaaris started rapping in 1999, and released his first mixtape in 2001. He returned to his native Ivory Coast for a while, but returned to France after political unrest in the country. In 2007, he released his street album 43ème Bima (pronounced "Quarante-troisième Bima"), that led to signing with... meer