Name: Intro - Concrete Feeling (1/10): Rap and Politics
Uploaded: 2019-04-17T18:00:00.000+02:00
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Description: 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.

Asphaltgefühl : Rap und Politik (1/10)

Intro

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Sabor de asfalto (1/10): Rap y política

Smak asfaltu: rap i polityka

Il sapore dell'asfalto: rap e politica (1/10)

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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Hip-Hop Culture

Concrete Feeling

<p>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.</p>

Concrete Feeling (1/10): Rap and Politics

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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. 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.

Concrete Feeling (2/10)

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

Rap took off: no longer a genre on the fringes of acceptability or even on the fringes of what is considered music: it was everywhere. It was on TV, and in film, and it stormed the charts with major commercial successes. But that left many rappers with an uncomfortable choice: stay true to their underground roots or embrace the mainstream.

Concrete Feeling (3/10)

Many rappers with an uncomfortable choice: stay true to their underground roots or embrace the mainstream

Authenticity

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

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]

Some rappers aren't content to work for somebody else. They intend to decide for themselves on their own terms rather than feel controlled by the record industry. They want to stay independent.

Concrete Feeling (6/10)

Some rappers aren't content to work for somebody else

Serious Business

In 1996, after a law was passed demanding that 40 percent of the music played on French radio be French, the radio station Skyrock became THE station to go to to listen to rap, and its influence grew to the point that it was Skyrock that could make or break music careers. It's been a love-hate relationship between the commercial radio and the artists who need to get them to play their tracks - whilst resisting the influence commercial appeal has on their work.

Concrete Feeling (7/10)

Skyrock became THE station to go to to listen to rap, and its influence grew to the point that it was Skyrock that could make or break music careers

We're the First

Rap has grown mainstream; and in doing so, has it lost its soul? And which rap has value, which one is the authentic rap? There's socially conscious rap, gangsta rap, protest rap and poetic rap. But isn't true rap about giving a voice to the voiceless, and so intrinsically an act of protest? 

Concrete Feeling (8/10)

Rap has grown mainstream; and in doing so, has it lost its soul?

Authenticity [Part II]

2005. In the aftermath of the biggest riots in France since May 68, the political class has to find the culprit. It's not the unemployment, not the failure of urban policies for the past 20 years...  the problem is rap, which is anti-France. But France is going to get rid of the scum, authorities promise.

Concrete Feeling (9/10)

2005. In the aftermath of the biggest riots in France since May 68, the political class points the finger not at lack of opportunity but on rap

Everything Burns

French rap may not have achieved the social changes it wanted, but it is now a firm favourite on the airwaves. This is a cultural revolution: rap is chanson francaise. 

Concrete Feeling (10/10)

French rap may not have achieved the social changes it wanted, but it is now a firm favourite on the airwaves

Outro

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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

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The Real Story of H.I.P H.O.P (1/10)

H.I.P H.O.P was the world’s first TV show about hip-hop created in France in 1984.

Out of This World

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Breaking in Soacha

When Lluvia's classmates were running the streets doing drugs, she was dancing

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Raphaël Stora, Parisian  and ex hip hop dancer, goes through fifteen years of personal film footage. He goes on a journey through dance and film to meet the latest Parisian talent.

Raphaël Stora, Parisian  and ex hip hop dancer, goes through fifteen years of personal film footage

Grounds (1/8)

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Gymnastics

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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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

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Birds have inspired many great composers, but can you call them musicians?

Are Birds Musicians?

Yurts, tipis, igloos: traditional homes are round, but most modern buildings are full of harsh right angles. In the 60s, influenced by science fiction, strange, curved creations started popping up in France. But it was a brief movement that fell out of favour.

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Concrete Feeling

Intro

On Mission

Authenticity

Each to Their Own Gang

Interlude [Police]

Serious Business

We're the First

Authenticity [Part II]

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Hip-Hop Culture

Supreme NTM

Out of This World

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Grounds (1/8)

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