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Who is Alanis Morissette’s rapper husband, Souleye? He says he got his stage name from a ‘spirit guide’ while in a trance state, and he’s released 12 studio albums, some featuring the ‘Ironic’ singer

Who is Alanis Morissette’s husband, rapper Souleye? Photo: @souleye/Instagram
Who is Alanis Morissette’s husband, rapper Souleye? Photo: @souleye/Instagram

The couple met at a meditation retreat in California, and the eccentric rapper claims he has ‘healed’ customers at Amazon-owned grocery store Whole Foods

Three decades after the release of Alanis Morissette’s multi-Grammy-winning album Jagged Little Pill, the Canadian-American singer is being sued for failing to credit one of her alleged co-writers.

Joseph Michael Hunt, who filed the lawsuit in November 2024, claims he received no credit for helping to write the hit album, which officially only names Morissette and lyricist Glen Ballard as songwriters, per RadarOnline. “Alanis has been asked for years to return my intellectual properties. She hasn’t,” he alleged, adding: “Alanis sold her soul long ago … My opinion of her is she is a talented bully.”

 
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Morissette didn’t respond to the court summons, and asked for the case to be dismissed in January. Meanwhile, she is continuing her work as a self-proclaimed “wholeness advocate” and supporting her husband – hip-hop artist Mario “Souleye” Treadway – as he releases new music.

So, what do we know about Souleye – who Morissette told Self in 2019 “has never had an issue with being married to an alpha woman”?

What’s Souleye’s background?

Souleye was born in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Photo: @souleye/Instagram
Souleye was born in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Photo: @souleye/Instagram

Souleye hails from Sturbridge, Massachusetts, per New Times Broward-Palm Beach. His mother is Italian and his father part Native American. He also had an older brother who struggled with his mental health and died by suicide in 2004.

How did Souleye get into music?

Souleye is a hip-hop musician. Photo: @souleye/Instagram
Souleye is a hip-hop musician. Photo: @souleye/Instagram
Souleye took to hip-hop music from an early age, reportedly inspired by artists such as DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash. By the time he went to senior school, he was already a performer, according to People. Although he got into Western New England College on a basketball scholarship, he dropped out and joined the New England rap collective Transcendental Alliance, leading a nomadic lifestyle for a while. Deeply affected by the death of a friend from cancer, he wrote his first LP Flexible Morality.