Loud takes the rap prize at ADISQ 2026. The Montreal rapper wins Album de l’année Rap for Douze sur douze at the Premier Gala on Wednesday, November 4, at MTELUS in Montreal, according to the official ADISQ results for the Gala de l’Industrie and the Premier Gala. The verdict lands four days before the main gala closes the week on Sunday, November 8, at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, and it settles the most watched rap question of the Quebec music year.
The verdict in the rap category
The official ADISQ results table lists one winner in Album de l’année Rap: Douze sur douze by Loud. The album finishes ahead of a field of five that the whole season built toward: Berger by Aswell, Rétrograde by Calamine, Still Kankan by FouKi and À la prochaine fois by kinji00. Our English guide to the category, ADISQ 2026 puts Quebec rap centre stage, walks through all five records and what each one brought into the night.
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Two of the nominee stories carry the shape of the race. FouKi arrived with Still Kankan and the momentum of an artist who has turned consistency into a signature, a run we traced in FouKi vise le Félix avec Still Kankan (in French). Loud arrived with a comeback record, three years after his previous album, and our portrait Loud confirme son retour avec Douze sur douze (in French) followed that return step by step. On the night, the comeback wins.
A third rap Félix for Loud
Coverage of the Premier Gala notes that this is the third time Loud wins the rap album prize at ADISQ, which puts Douze sur douze in a line with the records that built his name. The win confirms a full circle story: the veteran of the category, absent from the album race for three years, returns with a record that the industry then names the best rap album of the year.
The acceptance becomes one of the night’s talking points. Gala coverage reports that Loud used the moment to honour the artists who inspired him, naming pioneers such as Dramatik, Sans Pression and Connaisseur Ticaso, and that he followed a suggestion Calamine made before the gala about using a win to celebrate the Black artists who paved the way for Quebec rap. The gesture travels beyond the trophy itself, because the composition of this year’s nominee field had already started a wider conversation about who the category reflects. The Félix goes to Loud, and the moment on stage points back at the foundations of the scene.
Sarahmée holds the Premier Gala stage
The Premier Gala belongs, as a stage, to Sarahmée. ADISQ confirms she hosts the ceremony for a fourth year, guiding a night that hands out 24 artistic Félix trophies at MTELUS and airs on Télé-Québec. Our profile Sarahmée reprend l’animation du Premier Gala (in French) covers her return to the role. She does not leave with a trophy of her own this year, and none of the other rap nominees adds a second category win on the night, which keeps the rap story of ADISQ 2026 clean and simple: one category, five albums, one winner.
The night still gives rap a live presence beyond the trophy. The official ADISQ programme lists Cruzito performing with Rymz among the Premier Gala performances, a booking that puts two working voices of the scene on the MTELUS stage in front of the industry. Between that performance, Sarahmée at the microphone and the rap album verdict, the genre runs through the whole evening rather than sitting in a single segment.
Where the win lands on gala weekend
ADISQ week runs on two stages. The industry gala and the Premier Gala settle the album categories on Wednesday, and the main gala then closes the week on Sunday, November 8, at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, hosted for a third year by Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais. No rap album trophy remains on the table by Sunday, so the Sunday spotlight changes nothing for the category: the rap result of the 48th ADISQ galas is the Wednesday result, and it reads Loud, Douze sur douze.
For Quebec rap, the meaning is practical as much as symbolic. A comeback album can still set the standard in a field shared with Aswell, Calamine, FouKi and kinji00, four artists who represent the present tense of the scene. The category stays competitive, the bar stays high, and the record that clears it this year comes from the artist who has now cleared it three times. That is the result the official table records, and it is the result the rest of the season now answers to.
