When did you last on the hip-hop or R&B from France?
French hip-hop got a lot of spread in the second half of the 1990s, with the dark Marseilles-hip hop as an artistic highlight. Then followed many years in the international medieskugga, then the stage continued to develop, but as a local affair.
But in recent years, a new generation of artists emerged, whose music is far too interesting to be ignored by the outside world. The contemporary american hip hop, with trapbeats and autotune-song, has proved to fit the young French ordsmederna very good, such as MHD, Booba, Kaaris, and GLK.
the artist, who was unknown to me before new year’s eve – otherwise I had placed her phenomenal ”Nakamura”, which was released in november, high up on the list of 2018, the year’s best albums. She was born in Mali and raised in the parisian suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois. She sings, raps not, but she sings with a rappares attitude and sharpness. The songs are about things that the lying guys that should keep your mouth shut (hit ”Djadja”) and hundreds of thousands of fans have taken them to their hearts.
Artists such as Nakamura takes the R&B/dancehall/pop hybrid that has been so popular the last few years – think Rihanna’s ”Work” and Ed Sheerans ”Shape of you” – to a new level by linking with the african music cultures that have strong ties to the French. The glittering guitar and koraslingorna sounds completely natural in the Aya Nakamuras music (her single ”Oumou Sangaré” is a tribute to the famous singer with the same name).
the geographical kontrapunkten, for MHD, it is Senegal and Guinea, and for Damso, Belgium’s own Drake who did the amazing album ”Ipséité” in 2017, it is the Congo-Kinshasa.
To afrobeats and afropop is so large right now the benefit of the French urban pop music. MHD has recorded a duet with WizKid and Afro B is featured on a remix of Aya Nakamuras ”Djadja”. All of these artists is in various ways part of the same wave: the melancholy sensualismen and the betvingande rhythms is to make popvärlden a little more fun, a little cooler and a little sexier.
Read more musiktexter of Nicholas Ringskog Ferrada-Noli, for example, if The-Dreams way is to bet it all on the boundless kåtheten.
