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With his sombre style detailing life at the margins in the Sunshine State, Denzel Curry's trap embodies the modern Florida hip-hop scene. His lyrics hone in on his gang-controlled hometown of Carol City, where he says he only saw one way out of the cycles of violence: Forging a successful career in music. His enormous success shows the hard graft has paid off.

splash! Festival 2023

Blending autobiographical verses with fiction, Denzel Curry brings his unique trap style to splash! Festival.

Denzel Curry

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Bringing together cloud rap and ambient elements with stark trap, Canadian rapper Night's introspective but energetic flows talk of loneliness and anxiety. With over 4 million monthly listeners on Spotify and tens of millions on his soundcloud, his moody, dark emo rap has clearly made an impact. 

Dark introspection and moody themes pervade Night Lovell's music, a brooding mix of drill, trap and cloud rap.

Night Lovell

Meechy Darko first made waves back in 2012 as one of the Flatbush Zombies, a Brooklyn trio from the new school but lyrically focussed on the ghetto. His first solo album Gothic Luxury uses gothic themes to broach new themes in his music like institutional racism and the scourges of capitalism. 

Meechy Darko from Flatbush Zombies steps out as a solo artist for the first time.

Meechy Darko

Have you always wanted to go to a gig in a bathrobe? Well now is your chance: Hip-hop duo Uzi Freyja performs from the La Fontaine steam baths in Le Mans, France.

Hammam Session

Hip-hop duo Uzi Freyja performs from the La Fontaine steam baths in Le Mans, France.

Uzi Freyja

How did Tupac go from being gangster king to the paragon of the underdog? TAPE tells the story.

Tupac

TAPE

MC Solaar, perhaps France’s most famous rapper, revisits his greatest hits accompanied by the New Big Band Project, the combination of the Orchestre national d’Île de France with jazz group The Ice Kream.
Programme
Lune solaire
Qui sème le vent
La fin justifie les moyens
Sequelles
Obsolete
Quand le soleil devient froid
Gangster moderne
A temps partiels
Victimes de la mode
In god we trust
Inch'allah
La concubine de l'hémoglobine
Nouveau western
Armand est mort
La devise
Bouge de là
Bouge de là (reprise)
Les boys bandent
La musique adoucit les mœurs
Caroline

France’s most famous rapper revisits his greatest hits accompanied by the Orchestre national d’Île de France with jazz group The Ice Kream.

MC Solaar

Pharrell Williams manages to combine coolness and super-geekdom à la Star Trek. But how?

Pharrell Williams manages to combine coolness and super-geekdom. But how?

Pharrell Williams

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World

Pop & Rock

Electronic

Jazz

Performing Arts

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Lithuania's RnB sensation Free Finga already had a brush with fame as a child pop star in his home country. He returned to music in adulthood as a way of working through personal dramas with a modern, RnB sound brimming with catchy hooks and social angst. 

Europavox Sessions 2023

Lithuania's Free Finga brings his thoroughly modern RnB sound to Europavox.

Free Finga

With Live Orchestra at the Paris Philharmonie

Perhaps France’s most famous rapper, revisits his greatest hits accompanied by the New Big Band Project, the combination of the Orchestre national d’Île de France with jazz group The Ice Kream.

Provocative, creative, and with an unhealthy interest in vomit, Tyler, the Creator breaks the mould of US rap. But did he really eat that cockroach? TAPE tells all.

Provocative, an unhealthy interest in vomit, Tyler, the Creator breaks the mould of US rap. But did he really eat that cockroach? TAPE tells all.

Tyler, the Creator

MIA gained international recognition in 2007 thanks to Paper Planes. She continues to lobby for a world without walls, and without borders, through her songs.

MIA continues to lobby for a world without walls, and without borders, through her songs

TAPE: MIA

Booba has a reputation as the bad boy of French rap from the streets, but is it really true?

Booba: Gangster or Rich Kid?

How did Snoop Dogg change from being American public enemy no. 1 to the public’s favourite rapper. TAPE rewinds the life of a genius of personal branding.

Snoop Dogg

French rap duo PNL’s  music video for their track ‘Au DD’ saw the twosome sitting on top of the Eiffel Tower. But were they really there? Internet conspiracies abound.

Last year, Lil Nas X drew the ire of  American pastor Greg Locke, who filmed himself reacting to the Montero music video. Lil Nas X broke onto the music scene with his country-rap hit Old Town Road in 2019, but this new song was different. It features inverted pentagrams, devilish cosplay, and a lapdance to Lucifer. What is the meaning of Lil Nas X's satanic twerking?

Lil Nas X

What is the meaning of Lil Nas X's satanic twerking?

On October 1, 2014, Snoop Dogg made the guests of his Youtube show laugh by attacking Migos and their signature flow. But the Atlanta's technique is nothing new! So what annoys Snoop so much about the Migos rap style?

Migos

What annoys Snoop Dogg so much about the Migos rap style?

The child-star of the Cosby Show, Raven-Symoné signed her first contract by the age of five. In 1993, Raven-Symoné came out with the hit song That's What Little Girls Are Made Of, featuring Miss Elliott - but in the music video, Missy was replaced by an actress. Missy didn't look the part. That was devastating to her... but it didn't stop her rise and rise. 

Missy Elliott

The music industry tried to break Miss Elliott - but she changed the game instead. 

August 19, 2014. Nicki Minaj releases the music video for Anaconda. The message is clear: down with the dictatorship of skinny pop stars and make way for XXL shapes and XXX speech. Provocative? Maybe. Feminist? Definitely.

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj says down with the dictatorship of skinny pop stars, and make way for XXL shapes and XXX speech

Flavor Flav, a liability or a bankable asset for Public Enemy? There's an ideological chasm that separates the MC from the rest of the group. TAPE investigates.