What does “la moula” mean?

This week in “T’as la ref?”, We wanted to know more about the expression “la moula” that we hear all the time in the mouths of teenagers or in certain rap songs. At first listening, as an adult, you can think of seafood, the mussel, this little mollusk that you usually eat once the sunny days have arrived, during the summer. But let’s be honest, if our dear djeun’s and young rappers start to say “moula”, in any case they are thinking of seafood. But then what does that mean exactly?

First of all, the word “moula” also has a very common variant “la moulaga”. According to GQ Magazine, it appeared in the 1930s across the Atlantic, in the United States. It would refer to the Spanish word “mula” meaning “mule.” Originally, it was used to speak of money and especially of currency, in connection with the people who transported drugs. It was a word. peculiar to the language of the street. Today, this meaning has remained but it spilled over into another, thanks to the famous rapper Booba. He gave it a second more concrete meaning to refer to “cannabis.” The meaning of this word is slipping and going from “money” to “drug.” So now most of the time when you hear “la moula” in a teenage sentence it can mean “drug”.

“La moula” in music

In his piece Caramel, in 2012, Duke Booba chants: “I have to make money, mula, caramel.”. Other artists took to the word and used it in their lyrics. Heuss l’Enfoiré, who uses this expression in many of his songs, as well as the group PNL, Gradur, Jul and so many other rappers.

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