 He quickly developed into a lyricist with a metaphorical ingenuity far more advanced than his contemporaries, crafting violent yet strangely poetic portraits of urban Paris life and drawing on the street-smart American hip-hop of the Notorious B.I.G.and other icons to document life in Paris' hardscrabble 19th district.In 1996 Oxmo Puccino made his recorded debut with "Pucc.