For your information, NTM is a vulgar French acronym, I am explaining it in this article: French Swear Words: Learn to Curse Like a Local! They went for such a controversial name to shock the French and to show their hate towards a society that they judged unequal for its lack of opportunities. There were two teams back in time either you were either a fan of IAM (my case) or Suprême NTM (or simply shortened to NTM). Many artists or sportsmen came from this suburb, for example, the famous French football player Kylian Mbappé is from there. In terms of old-school French rap from Paris, this is the band representing his city the best.Īctually, they are from Seine-Saint-Denis, a county next to Paris, well-known for being the most dangerous French county due to violence and drug traffic. The old-school hip-hop group is composed of two emblematic French singers, Kool Shen and JoeyStarr who started in 1989. JB Quentin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Lève-toi et rap: telling about is childhood.Solaar pleure: sharing his dark thought about life.Hasta la vista: singing about a love story.La belle et le bad boy: describes the romance of a bad boy and a calmer girl.I selected the French rap song “Da Vince Claude”, a song still pretty actual, talking about people believing that all the news are a conspiracy. This Parisian rapper is completely down-to-earth and is perfect if you want to teach some French music. I really enjoy this artist because he is singing about life issues and stories in a poetic way that prevails over writing about money or belittling women, topics that most rappers would sing about. He loves literature and was inspired by older French artists like Serge Gainsbourg. The album that had a big impact on my musical taste was “Cinquième as” all the songs are iconic. His second album “Prose Combat” had similar success and reached nearly double the number of copies of the first one. In 1991, his first album “Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo” sold 400,000 copies.
It led him in 1990 to record his first singles, which would become hits such as “Bouge de là” or the superb “Caroline”. At a very young age, he started to be passionate about rap. He moved to France and grew up in the suburbs of Paris. Regarding the life of Mc Solaar, he was born in Dakar and his real name is Claude M’Barali.
He was back after a break of 10 years, it was supposed to be a three or four years break when he became a father but time flies faster than he thought. By looking at some information I’ve learned that he released an album in 2017 and I did not know about it, shame on me (and it is a good one). This is the Hip-hop French artist that I was listening to on my sound stereo while playing Lego as a kid. Thomas Faivre-Duboz, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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