Name: French Game (11/11) - Autotune by Damso
Uploaded: 2019-05-11T00:00:00.000+02:00
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Description: 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.

French Game (11/11)

"Autotune": Damso

"Autotune", de Damso

Damso e la rivoluzione "Autotune"

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.

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The Story of French Rap

French Game

Hip-Hop Culture

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. <br /><br /><br />

Autotune by Damso

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

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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)

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

French Game (10/11)

French Game - The Story of French Rap

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Coming out of France’s suburban ghetto, the first French hip-hop artists take the country by storm in 1990. Names like Assassin, NTL and IAM were politically engaged and ready to shake things up.

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Intro

The mainly BAME neighbourhoods of Paris were places mainstream media didn't go and didn't talk about. So the local rapper's became the CNN of their communities. They rapped about unemployment, police violence, everyday racism and lack of a future. They wanted to be heard by the society that had pushed them to the fringes.

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The mainly BAME neighbourhoods of Paris were places mainstream media didn't go and didn't talk about. So the local rapper's became the CNN of their communities

On Mission

Every generation of rapper in France tackles the diffcult and sometimes violent relationship between the police and urban French youth. And in the 90s, it became urgent after 17-year-old Makomé M'Bowolé was killed by a bullet to the head at point blank range during a police interrogation at a police station, triggering riots. 

Concrete Feeling (5/10)

17-year-old Makomé was killed during a police interrogation, triggering riots and a generation of rappers to address race and police

Interlude [Police]

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