April 8, 2019 • 1h
Coming out of France’s suburban ghetto, the first French hip-hop artists take the country by storm in 1990. Names like Assassin, N...Read more
April 8, 2019 • 1h
The mainly BAME neighbourhoods of Paris were places mainstream media didn't go and didn't talk about. So the local rapper's became...Read more
April 8, 2019 • 1h
Rap took off: no longer a genre on the fringes of acceptability or even on the fringes of what is considered music: it was everywh...Read more
April 8, 2019 • 1h
The rapper is a social animal. He moves in groups and collectives, like Time Bomb or Beat 2 Boul. They're like famillies, only wit...Read more
April 8, 2019 • 1h
Every generation of rapper in France tackles the diffcult and sometimes violent relationship between the police and urban French y...Read more
April 8, 2019 • 1h
Some rappers aren't content to work for somebody else. They intend to decide for themselves on their own terms rather than feel co...Read more
April 8, 2019 • 1h
In 1996, after a law was passed demanding that 40 percent of the music played on French radio be French, the radio station Skyrock...Read more
April 8, 2019 • 1h
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 ...Read more
April 8, 2019 • 1h
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 unem...Read more
April 8, 2019 • 1h
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 ...Read more