Name: French Game (10/11) - Blocked - Casseurs Flowteurs
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Description: With the birth of the Internet, it no longer mattered if artists were based in Paris or not. Creativity was decentralised, and democratised. And thanks to music sharing sites like MySpace, Orelsan and Gringe managed to break into the industry with their game-changing sounds.

French Game (10/11)

Orelsan e Casseurs Flowters: il regno della provincia

"Bloqué", de Casseurs Flowters

"Bloqué": Casseurs Flowters

With the birth of the Internet, it no longer mattered if artists were based in Paris or not. Creativity was decentralised, and democratised. And thanks to music sharing sites like MySpace, Orelsan and Gringe managed to break into the industry with their game-changing sounds. 

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The Story of French Rap

French Game

Hip-Hop Culture

With the birth of the Internet, it no longer mattered if artists were based in Paris or not. Creativity was decentralised, and democratised. And thanks to music sharing sites like MySpace, Orelsan and Gringe managed to break into the industry with their game-changing sounds. <br /><br /><br />

Blocked - Casseurs Flowteurs

With the Internet, it no longer mattered if artists were based in Paris. Creativity was democratised

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The underprivileged suburbs were the breeding ground and first inspiration for French hip-hop. In 1990 legendary group NTM broke through from the underground and became a phenomenon.

French Game (1/11)

In 1990 legendary French hip-hopgroup NTM broke through from the underground and became a phenomenon.

Supreme NTM

MC Solaar brings French hip-hop into the mainstream with his radio-friendly hit ‘Bouge de là’.

French Game (2/11)

MC Solaar Conquers the Radio

En 1995, a new generation of rappers want to shake up the game and challenge the pioneers who made the rules. Even more hardcore, and even more technical, the rap collectives Time Bomb and La Cliqua were a new style and a new sound. 

Losers Take the Wheel - Time Bomb

En 1995, a new generation of rappers burst on to the French rap scene

French Game (3/11)

Doc Gynéco frees himself from the coventions of the genre to invent a very Parisian rap - though inspired by the G Funk of the West Coast. This is his universe and how he sees it: the street, the girls, the 18th arrondissement.

The Doctor Will See You Now: Doc Gynéco

Doc Gynéco frees himself from the coventions of the genre to invent a very Parisian rap

French Game (4/11)

The rap isn't just for Paris or for Parisians. In a northern neighbourhood of Marseille, IAM fused New York efficiency with southern verve. And it was this style of rap born far from the French capital that marked a new phase in the development of the genre. 

IAM's Tomorrow is Far

The rap isn't just for Paris or for Parisians. In a northern neighbourhood of Marseille, IAM fused New York efficiency with southern verve

French Game (5/11)

Peur Noire - Black Fear - was a play on words of the French phase to be scared blue (in other words extremely scared). Peur Noire exposes the experience of being "othered" in France, of being viewed as the archetypal threatening black man. But despite the social critique inherent in his title, Oxmo's rap is also funny, poetic and anti-communitarian.

Black Fear - Oxmo Puccino

Peur Noire exposes the experience of being "othered" in France

French Game (6/11)

One year after 50 Cent's In da club, TTC comes out the French version. What did electronic rap mean for the relationship between French rappers and their newfound kit, and the club scene? 

In the Club by TTC

One year after 50 Cent's In da club, TTC comes out the French version

French Game (7/11)

Rap doesn't always have to be a subversive meta-commentary on power, politics and race: sometimes it can just be about going to the club and being the best dressed - or the best full stop - in the room. Years ahead of his time Booba was bringing over American rap tropes into French. His rhymes were full of punchlines.

Boulbi by Booba

Years ahead of his time Booba was bringing over American rap tropes into French

French Game (8/11)

Is the rap scene, notoriously objectifying towards women, accessible to female artists? Female French rapper Casey insists that gender doesn't matter. If you're talented, you'll make it. But of course that's not easy when as an outsider looking in, you only ever see yourself described as object and never subject.

Not For Sale by Casey

Is the rap scene, notoriously objectifying towards women, accessible to female artists? 

French Game (9/11)

The new stars of rap such as Damso or PNL have completely broken away from the old school. Autotune is now everywhere and has completely changed the genre's sound. And rap has become more personal; behind the violence of the lyrics lies a story of deeper reflections on identity, life, and what it means to be a man.

Autotune by Damso

The new stars of rap such as Damso or PNL have completely broken away from the old school

French Game (11/11)

French Game - The Story of French Rap

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The rapper is a social animal. He moves in groups and collectives, like Time Bomb or Beat 2 Boul. They're like famillies, only with a message and a vision. And maybe that family is necessary: during the height of racial tensions in 90s France, controversial immigration laws left many communities feeling under attack. .

Concrete Feeling (4/10)

The rapper is a social animal. He moves in groups and collectives, like Time Bomb or Beat 2 Boul

Each to Their Own Gang

Ayn Rand was a survivor of Communism, and as a result, her writings fiercely advocate uncompromising individualism. Her high profile fans include Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Angelina Jolie.

Gymnastics

Ayn Rand was a survivor of Communism, and as a result, her writings fiercely advocate uncompromising individualism

Ayn Rand, Capitalism Guru

Ancient Greek statues are white, pure and classical, just like the marble they are carved from. False. These statues were painted in fabulous bright colours. Archaeologists and art academics have known this for centuries so why does the white myth endure?

Ancient Greek Statues Were Not White

A simple hut on the Côte d‘Azur shows all of Le Corbusier’s architectural genius.

Le Corbusier and his Cabin

Conductors can gesticulate wildly when they conduct an orchestra. But have you ever wondered what exactly they are doing with their hands? And why do they use a baton?

Why Do Conductors Use Batons?

Highly respected theatres are programming gory productions that have more in common with slash horror films than traditional theatre.

Gore at the Theatre

In 1973 choreographer and dancer Carolyn Carlson brought an breath of American fresh air into the Paris Opera. In true hippy style she brought barefoot dancing, improvisation and a relaxed attitude. Not everyone was ready for change.

Carolyn Carlson: The Day They Danced Barefoot at the Paris Opera

The humble accordion may not have a reputation as the coolest instrument on the block. But in the hands of Mario Batkovic it takes on another dimension. Since 2017 the Bosnian accordionist has been wowing audiences and recording film and game scores, notably for hit survival game, Red Dead Redemption 2.

The humble accordion may not have a reputation as the coolest instrument on the block. But in the hands of Mario Batkovic it takes on another dimension.

Mario Batkovic: Superstar Accordionist

In 2019, Les Indes galantes was performed at the Opera de la Bastille in Paris, hip hop style. This baroque opera, composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau, is an ode to colonial exoticism, and its reworking is the brainchild of Bintou Dembélé, the first black woman to choreograph a ballet at the Paris Opera.

In 2019, Les Indes galantes was performed at the Opera de la Bastille in Paris, hip hop style

Operatic Hip Hop: Dance Decolonised

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Amsterdam’s famous red-light district attracts hordes of noisy tourists making the neighbourhood unliveable for many of its residents. With the city authorities considering measures to push sex workers out of the area, does this spell the end for the historic trade in the city centre?

Amsterdam’s famous red-light district attracts hordes of noisy tourists making the neighbourhood unliveable for many of its residents.

Re: Mass Tourism in Amsterdam's Red Light District

Barcelona is beautiful not least because it is the city of Gaudi. Today, the rooftops of the capital of Catalonia reconnect with their primary vocation: sociability, but with the added plus of culture and biodiversity.

Barcelona is beautiful not least because it is the city of Gaudi

On the Rooftops: Barcelona

Jamie Cullum, Britain’s best-selling jazz artist, natural showman and fearless performer, made his mark with covers of Rihanna’s “Don't Stop the Music” and “Frontin'” by Pharrell Williams. This special live performance comes from Versailles’s old royal hospital, the Espace Richaud.

Jamie Cullum: piano solo

Second or third children born illegally during China’s One Child Policy are banned from marrying, having children or simply boarding a train. Condemned to a non-life, these ghost children do not officially exist according to the Chinese state. ARTE Reportage goes in search of these ‘Haihaizi’,  those children who should not have been born.

Arte Reportage

Second or third children born illegally during China’s One Child Policy are banned from marrying, having children or simply boarding a train. 

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From an incredibly varied selection of 19th century postcards, the Paris of the Belle Epoque (1871 – 1914) comes to life. Street-photography captured Parisians from all walks of life and conveyed the optimism and elegance of the period.

From an incredibly varied selection of 19th century postcards, the Paris of the Belle Epoque (1871 – 1914) comes to life.

Paris in the Belle Epoque

When Massimo Vacchetta discovered little Ninna, he immediately adopted her and saved her from certain death. The veterinarian, whose specialty was caring for cattle, had found his vocation: he opened a hedgehog refuge, now a local institution partly run by volunteers.

When Massimo Vacchetta discovered little Ninna, he immediately adopted her and saved her from certain death

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ARTE Reportage

Tortured, murdered, or kidnapped, migrants held in Libya go through hell

Libya: Migrant Camps Scandal

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Wexford Festival Opera 2021

Wexford Opera Festival proudly presents a rediscovered, long forgotten work by Alfredo Catalani.

Alfredo Catalani: Edmea

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Reeperbahn Festival 2021

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Sting - 'Rushing Water'

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Orchestre National de France

Patrick Messina and the Orchestre National de France conducted by Bernard Haitink perform Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Bruckner's Symphony No. 9, at the Auditorium de Radio France.

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