**Asf Dine**, or simply Asf, pseudonyms of Anssafidine Youssouf, born November 11, 2001 in Nkourani Sima, is a Comorian rapper and singer-songwriter. He started playing music in a group called Black Style. Asf Dine released its first project entitled Ridjiri Mbali on August 20, 2019, a mixtape of 9 tracks, then the EP Wakati Uka Uni Hibi on January 1, 2021, and finally on January 25, 2022 its third project Djirumé was released.

After a year 2023 without releasing any projects (Album or Ep) in March 2024, the artist announces his first album coming soon

Beginning and childhood
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**Asf Dine**, born November 11, 2001 in Nkourani Sima in Bandjini in the South-West of Ngazidja, is a Comorian rapper, songwriter and performer. He is the youngest of three children. In 2006, his mother decided to settle in Moroni in the Mboueni district before settling permanently in Mtsamboudjou where Asf Dine's family will stay there until the latter obtains his baccalaureate in 2021. He is his studies at the private school G.S. AVENIR where he will be expelled in 2018 for driving problems. From then on, he lived between Moroni and Nkourani Sima, without school. Rap becomes his escape.

Career
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Coming from a family of musicians, she sang toirab and was also a member of traditional associations. At the age of 14, Asf Dine began writing lyrics and rapping in his bedroom. It was only during his first public performance that he was noticed by his childhood friend Abdjokayl, who included him in the group Black Style. A group from the neighboring neighborhood of young Asf Dine, and Abdjokayl was the founding rapper. With the latter, they co-wrote Washili Na Mdro, the first track from Asf Dine released in November 2017. In 2018, he collaborated with Mh Cruz on the song Makolza, it was with him that he founded Cruz Boy's music, Nkourani Sima's first rap group. A year later, on August 20, 2019, he released his first solo project and at the same time he officially announced that he was leaving Cruz Boy's for a solo career. According to his statements, being a member of Cruz Boy's music is something that closed doors for him. "I had nothing left to lose. I had talent, and stayed there making music that I didn't agree with myself, I looked like a fake because they didn't have the same ideas as me. » This is how he launched into a solo career. He declares: "I started with egotrip then I discovered conscious rap, something dirty which reflects what happens in daily life but at the same time, it allowed others to discover me , since Djirani, extract from my first mixtape meant that I had my first manager.»

Revealed to the general public
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In November 2020, he participated in a competition for the Comorian talent of the year "Udjuzi" and performed "Mkomori" a song written by the best Comorian rapper Victorious Awax which will make him known nationally, allowing him to receive a certificate of deserves in the final, the winner of which is Elzaid.

On June 30, 2021, in collaboration with Lz Gvng, the rapper sees himself building a community. On December 25, 2021, Asf Dine released "Roho Ndzidu". On February 11, 2023, the music video for it was released, in collaboration with Bilwiz. By releasing his third project "Djirume" featuring artists such as Killamen, Bilwiz, Hoosligo, Aliyano and Tay's, he attracted the attention of Jeez who became his manager and offered him a fourth project, released scheduled for 2024. Building on its new success, Asf Dine unveils the song TRAKA, appears in the album of the compilation of director Soifaoui.y, YKWG on the eponymous songs YKWG and YKWG II or even unveils the song Wako Roneya in collaboration with Kissimani Family taken from the Kissimani compilation vol.1. Asf Dine, is today one of the Comorian rappers of his generation known abroad, is ranked 2nd in the Playlist of the French rapper Menzo of the group Fonky Family, and one of the best Comorian lyricists according to AST.