French Montana leads Morocco World Cup rally in crowded Times Square

French Montana is on top of the world, and it showed when he led a massive rally in Times Square to celebrate his homeland, Morocco, which made World Cup history.

The rapper was a proud cheerleader on Saturday night as he stood atop scaffolding, waving the Moroccan flag and singing along to a crowd of thousands cheering for their football team defeated Portugal - sorry Cristiano Ronaldo - and made it to the semi-finals of the World Cup.

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French — who was born and raised in Casablanca, Morocco until he was a teenager — had pure joy on his face after watching his Atlas Lions play the part of Cinderella.

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Morocco is now the first African country and the first Arabic-speaking country to progress this far in the World Cup tournament; he beat powerful teams like Belgium, Spain and now Portugal, along the way.

French continued the party later Saturday night at the Alicia Keys concert at the United Palace in New York...where he was still grinning from ear to ear as he hung out with Alicia...