Samir Djoghlal (born 2 May 1981), better known as L'Algérino (French pronunciation: [lalʒeʁino]), is a French-born Algerian rapper whose family came from the Chaoui-Berber tribes in Khenchela, Algeria.
A childhood friend of JUL, he was discovered in 2001 by rapper Akhenaton, a member of the IAM group, who signed him on his 361 Recordz label, and in which he published his first album " Les derniers seront les premiers" (English: The Last will be the First), in June 2005. Aged 25, L'Algérino becomes the first Marseille artist signed on an independent Paris label, the Sinik Six-O-Nine.