Franco-Haitian singer Joé Dwèt Filé released Hatelove on Friday, May 22 — a 15-track album that runs Caribbean rhythm structures into international rap across 48 minutes. The features list reads like a deliberate bridge between the francophone Caribbean diaspora and the Anglophone rap mainstream: Shenseea, Rich the Kid, French rapper SDM, and L2B's KLN all appear.
The cross-Atlantic pitch
Dwèt Filé has spent the last five years building one of the larger francophone audiences in Europe — his catalog has steadily grown from Haitian-Creole zouk and kompa material into a wider French-Caribbean pop sound. Hatelove is the most ambitious version of that pivot. The single "Rihanna" (the obvious thesis title) sets the tone for an album willing to chase American features alongside the Haitian-French foundations he's been building from.
The reception is already on the books. His December 5, 2026 concert at Paris La Défense Arena — at 40,000 seats, Europe's largest indoor venue — is already sold out, months before the date. That is a number that puts Dwèt Filé adjacent to the biggest French-language touring artists working right now. Hatelove is the record that gets him to that room.
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