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| | French hip hop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | MC Solaar, who was born in Senegal, released his first CD in 1991. | | | Paname City Rappin (1984) by DJ Dee Nasty was the first album released; it was a funky record, released on Nasty's own Funkzilla record label. | | | MC Hip Hop: The Music Tout a la Mode. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_hip_hop
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| | MusicMoz - Lyrics: Hip Hop |
| | David Allen Lyrics - Collection of hip hop lyrics, organized by artist and by song title. | | | Hip Hop Rap Lyrics - Provides the lyrics to some hip hop and rap tunes, including songs by Brandy, Destiny's Child, Damage and Case. | | | The Urban Lyrics - Rhythm and blues/soul, hip hop, rap lyrics archive. |
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| | Nouvelle page 1 |
| | In France, the early, budding music masters already had already swallowed 20 years of american hip hop history (the French have always been keen listeners of american music, so it's no surprise that they followed the roots of hip hop from the beginning, while not turning out their own productions until much later). | | | February of 98 marked the first ultimate consecration for french rap with France’s equivalent to the Grammy Awards, les Victoires de la Musique, winner of the Album of the Year going to IAM for their “L’Ecole de Micro d’Argent,” nearly one year after its release. | | | This is the first time in the long-running history of the Victoires that a rap album had won such a prestige. |
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http://hiphopfrance.ifrance.com/hiphopfrance/storyus.htm
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| | LUMPEN French Hip Hop |
| | Hip hop rhythmic structure and gear (two turntables and a sampler, he explains) frame a combination of influences, from Street to Ghazal to Jazz to Jungle to House, reaching an inspired acme of stunning melancholy and exoticism on the two tracks sung by Bangalore (?) vocalist Kakoli Sengupta, a singer he discovered via his mom! | | | As Daft Punk were able to link Techno and House, Dimitri married House with Trip Hop, drenching it in samba kitsch and multi-colored cocktail music, the kind of cocktails Gardner McKay's passengers would sip on the Tiki. | | | And needing musical material to shake it and work it, they've provided french musicians, DJs and MCs with an outlet in which to showcase their wares. |
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http://musictravel.free.fr/articles/hiphop/hiphop.htm
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| | BBC NEWS Europe French rappers' prophecies come true |
| | It is undeniable that some of the lyrics of French rap songs - as in America - are shocking to the conservative-minded. | | | Disiz La Peste, a 27-year-old of mixed Senegalese and French parentage whose real name is Serigne M'Baye, has just released his third album, entitled The Extraordinary Stories Of A Youth In The Banlieue. | | | But most French rap songs show a deep urge to articulate what would otherwise go unexpressed in words, and - whatever your feelings about the genre - many do so with invention. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4440422.stm
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| | The History of Hip Hop in France - www.ezboard.com |
| | The French musical landscape before the beginning of the 80's, except for some talented singers, writers and composers, was made up of some fake singers who were usually taking up succesfull american rock or disco songs by just dropping some French lyrics in it. | | | But for now we're back in 1984 and DJ Dee Nasty is recording the first French rap records: 'Panam City Rappin' on his own label 'Funkzilla', a 6 tracks record, mixing funk and rap sound. | | | French rap is now the most popular music for young people and they are thousands and thousands of rappers every where in France. |
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http://p076.ezboard.com/fpoliticalpalacefrm57.showMessage?topicID=629.topic
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| | URI professor authors book on French hip-hop |
| | The French, who at first tried to translate English lyrics, began to create their own lyrics and experiment with new beats. | | | The prominence of lyrical content in rap music has made it especially popular among the French, who embrace a love for words, according to Durand. | | | When I did, he began to perform a series of dance moves we now call break dancing." From this point on Durand who is a Peace Dale resident was immersed in a culture that involved rap music, hip-hop dance, and graffiti, also known as tagging. |
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http://www.uri.edu/news/releases/html/02-1024-03.html
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| | David Brooks vs. gangsta rap. By Jody Rosen |
| | French rap lyrics today are like the American gangsta lyrics of about five or 10 years ago, when it was more common to fantasize about cop killings and gang rape. | | | In today's column, Brooks takes his shtick overseas and into the realm of pop music with a denunciation of "French gangsta rap." Citing the prevalence of hip-hop culture among "the rioters"—"poor young Muslim men" from Parisian banlieues and other French slums—Brooks goes on to to spin a theory of global gangsta rap hegemony. | | | The truth is, it's probably one of only two French rap lyrics he's ever heard—or, rather, read. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2130120#ContinueArticle
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| | Music, Genres, Rap and Hip Hop, |
| | Linked sites feature rap album reviews, hip hop record labels, rap music charts, and more. | | | Including gangsta rap, hip hop artists, rap lyrics, and more. | | | This ring features the newest sites with rap music reviews, albums, music charts, and hard-to-find rap record labels, as well as popular rap artist sites, fan pages, and hip hop sites. |
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http://dir.webring.com/rw?forum=y;d=Music/Genres/Rap_and_Hip_Hop
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| | Fuck Hip Hop. MetaFilter |
| | Hip hop is a broad church - don't write it off because it lacks melody, is a "black thing", or "just isn't music", as all of these things are blatantly untrue. | | | Hip hop was created through a deep love and appreciation of music, in all its forms. | | | As a total music geek (who knows jack all about hip hop), I gotta say that the talent these people have for crafting songs entirely out of records is astounding, easily requiring more "understanding" of music than what normally passes for music these days. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/22700
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| | Open Directory - Society: Subcultures: Hip-Hop |
| | French Hip Hop - Albums, lyrics, sounds, photographs, and cultural history of Franco-American hip-hop. | | | B-Boys.com - Hip hop rap music forum with links to underground hip-hop sites, graffiti pictures, deejay bios, breakdance crews, MC freestyle lyrics, spotlights, forums and news on b-boy culture. | | | Program profile, audio and video interviews and freestyles, and forum covering all aspects of hip hop including graffiti and beats. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Subcultures/Hip-Hop
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| | CD Baby: LA CEDILLE: Vu Du Large - from indiemusic |
| | The band haven't forgotten either their French heritage, with a distinctly jazzy feel to their songs which incorporate a brass-section featuring trombone and saxophone. | | | From Saian Supa Crew's deft battle-raps to MC Solaar's conscious hip hop, via the more abstract underground sounds of TTC and Le Peuple De L'Herbe, French hip hop has developed its own musical accent as mellifluous as the tongue in which those rhymes are rapped. | | | In the first half of 2004 (and in association with the Timeless Music Project) La Cedille travelled to Huddersfield in the UK to record their debut album for Chocolate Fireguard. |
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http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lacedille/from/indiemusic
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| | French Culture performing arts: |
| | French playwright Jean Giraudoux's comic fable The Madwoman of Chaillot, starring Oscar winner Kim Hunter, will be presented at the Neighbourhgood Playhouse in New York from Oct. 2-28, 2001. | | | French puppetmaster Philippe Genty is back in New York Sept. 19-24 with the U.S. debut of Stowaways. | | | The Knitting Factory presents the US premiere of Corset, Marion Schoevaert's adaptation of the play Rules For Good Manners In the Modern World by the late French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce. |
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http://www.frenchculture.org/perfo/events/archives.html
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| | Telegraph Entertainment Should hip hop take the rap for rioting? |
| | Last week, 200 politicians backed a petition by MP François Grosdidier calling for legal action against several hip hop musicians for their aggressive lyrics. | | | Their music is now massive, with an act that sells fewer than 100,000 records considered "underground" - even high-profile British rappers would be thrilled to shift 20,000 units. | | | Next story: Robert Fripp: 'If you love music, become a plumber' |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/12/08/bmfrance08.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/12/08/ixartleft.html
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| | His lyrics are different from most of rap lyrics because Assassin thinks culture and not violence is the mean component of a successful social revolution. | | | He considers that french rap is not a family, despite the fact there exists great rappers. | | | The lyrics are thought and the musical background is well worked. |
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http://www.chez.com/abousworld/rap/artists/artists.html
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| | Wine X Magazine |
| | While French rappeurs and audiences have long been familiar with the best and worst of the exported U.S. sound, the beats of le rap Francais have only recently begun to reach across the ocean. | | | This increasingly available soundtrack is a perfect primer for hip hop fans eager to explore the French sound. | | | Groups that rap primarily about violence and poverty in the French suburbs are closer in spirit and sound to the American scene. |
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http://www.winexmagazine.com/4point3/rage.htm
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| | San Antonio Current - Feature Game changer |
| | With an album tentatively set to drop in July, Parker could emerge as hoop-loving America’s gateway drug into French rap, or merely be the latest in a long line of professional athletes with musical vanity projects on their resumes. | | | They were pleasantly surprised that he had good sounding music, and for the most part it got a great response. | | | San Antonio producer Polygrafic’s Scott Storch-ian beat, rich in strings and bass, nestles the crowd back in but it really isn’t until Fabolous joins Parker to perform their single “Top Of The Game” that things really get crunk again. |
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http://www.sacurrent.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16214394&BRD=2318&PAG=461&dept_id=484045&rfi=6
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| | Hip Hop Slam >>> News |
| | HIP HOP SLAM NEWS ROUND UP Livehuman have just released the brilliant and unique break record Breakseven which is a must-have for all DJs, turntablists, and producers. | | | DJ T-Rock has just released a DVD version of his second album Sikinthehed. | | | Produced by DJ Quest with all original organic sounds by percussionist Albert Mathias and bassist Andrew Kushin it features great grooves to scratch to, beats for juggles, plus various instrument sounds. |
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http://www.hiphopslam.com/news/hhs_news_service_032.html
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| | Freemuse: La Rumeur: accused of inciting violence |
| | But when fashion went underground, the six-member rap band turned to EMI to release its first album, "L'ombre sur la mesure" ("Shadow on the (music) measure"). | | | French minister warns 'hate' rap bands over lyrics | | | Six French music venues have axed scheduled performances of Jamaican reggae singer Capleton because of his lyrics against homosexuality |
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| | Le Flow: The Definitive French Hip Hop Compilation - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | To the compilers of this album that clearly means groups and songs with the most crossover potential, resulting in a hit and miss collection. | | | France's hip-hop scene grew throughout the 1990s to become second only to the U.S. in terms of music produced and albums purchased, yet while the French buy up American CDs, stateside French acts are virtually ignored. | | | This is the second compilation released by Trace magazine and Ultra Records attempting to get the attention of an American audience. |
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http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,394273,00.html
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| | Africanhiphop.com |
| | Their albums are distributed by EMI/JAT which has a good network all over West-Africa. | | | They did two shows, in Mau (accompanied by Poetic Lovers) and Paris, visited Voltage FM and RFI, and then went back to Ivory Coast to present their new album. | | | Interestingly the tracks have been a mixture of Lingala (Congolese), French and English. |
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http://www.africanhiphop.com/crew/ivory.htm
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| | rebensdorf.7 |
| | In relating to the "music from the street," the French banlieues seem to grab hold of hip-hop's embodied expression to reflect a specific oppression. | | | They do not relate to the hegemony propagated by the dominant French majority and thus negotiate some of these gaps by asserting their own oppression in hip-hop's expressive mediums. | | | They came back with this music that was talking about life on the street." Though it started as simple appropriation, the French hip-hop scene-- rap, break-dancing and graffiti-- soon developed its own voice. |
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http://www.lclark.edu/~soan/alicia/rebensdorf.express.html
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| | Street Knowledge: Conscious Music Blog » French rap in the scope |
| | If you would like to send music, say hello or suggest music, please get in touch. | | | The legislators called for rap groups, including some posted here, to face prosecution for such music. | | | Street Knowledge: Conscious Music Blog » French rap in the scope |
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| | French Hip Hop : An Introduction....... - The Ill Community |
| | A similarly unique take on hip hop was offered by TTC who have teamed up with like minds such as Dose One and Hi-Tek.The title of Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque (2002) referenced Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte,and the album's sounds,rhymes and cadences were as crazed as you would expect. | | | From Marseille,IAM and their awesome mc/producer Akhenton went double platinum in 1998 with their hit ''Indepenza''.Also from Marseille are Le 3eme Oeil who have mastered the melachony piano loop better than RZA,and Fonky Family,who looped The Beatles on their hit 'Si Je Les Avais Ecoutes'' (1999) | | | Supreme NTM (1998) was even bigger,with the ragga tinged ''Ma Benz'' and the head nodder ''Thats my People''.Kool Shen and Joey Starr are both fine producers,responsible for outside projects like Sniper(Joey Starr) and the super group IV My People (Kool shen,neighbour Busta Flex,the excellent lyricist Noxea and Serum). |
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http://community.allhiphop.com/showthread.php?t=120852
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| | Nubian Underground. The Home of Responsible African Hip-Hop Music and Culture. |
| | Ivre who raps in French started rapping in 1995, and is currently working on a album entitled "La Technologie de mes Lyrikes" which means "My Lyrics'Technology", This album is due out by the end of this year. | | | Their main goal is to represent lyrically, and to be classified on the same level as French rappers. | | | They all rap mainly in French except for the VelociRashtor who done some tracks in English. |
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http://www.nubianunderground.com/nu/main/chamber?id=10038
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| | HIPHOPDIRECTORY.COM v3 International Hip-Hop |
| | A french site about hip-hop culture covering french hip hop news, albums and graffiti. | | | A Geneva based hip-hop site that focuses on french and U.S. hip-hop news and also features lyrics, mp3, forum, chat and reviews. | | | This site is dedicated to Swedish breaking and especially to the Lifestyle Family (Zap Crew and Throwdown Rockers) Swedish hip-hop site. |
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http://www.hiphopdirectory.com/html_data/internationalhiphop.html
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| | Boing Boing: French Hip Hop |
| | My friend Todd Lappin recently turned me on to the wonders of French Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap. |
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| | KEREN ANN |
| | Her songs can seem disarmingly simple, yet they are more complex than they appear, and the arrangements frequently progress in unusual ways as the songs build. | | | Keren Ann's first three albums — two French discs and Not Going Anywhere — were collaborative efforts with French producer/writer/multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Biolay. | | | Her latest CD, Nolita (after her New York neighborhood, “North of Little Italy”), is filled with impressions of her adopted second home, along with musings on relationships and life in general, sung in English and French. |
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| | djsource.co.uk - french Hip Hop |
| | I went to the concert of starflam about a month ago, and it was dope... | | | i got a french hip hop complination cd but it isnt upto much | | | but I just wanted to know if there was anybody on the source who listens to french hip hop? |
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http://www.djsource.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=18049
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| | The future of French hip-hop - i (heart) music |
| | His newest album, Rebondir EP (which comes out next week), however, shows that this just means the change will take a little longer to complete. | | | Admittedly, as a producer, his sway is somewhat limited; he can't release a single album (along the lines of Boy In Da Corner) that will completely reinvent the genre, since, after all, he still has to work with French and Quebecois rappers. | | | The future of French hip-hop - i (heart) music |
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http://www.iheartmusic.net/serendipity/index.php?/archives/252-The-future-of-French-hip-hop.html
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| | AllHipHop.com : Daily Hip-Hop News |
| | Read up on what's poppin' in the non-Hip Hop world of music. | | | Spurs Tony Parker Records With Fabolous, French Album On The Way | | | In 1995 French officials attacked rap group Ministere Amer in court over their song “Sacrifice de poulet,” from the soundtrack to “La Haine,” a movie that ironically centers on the lives of three teenagers living in the slums after a riot has broken out. |
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| | USATODAY.com - French rappers provide social commentary on riots |
| | Their song What are we waiting for (Qu'est-ce qu'on attend), from the 1995 album Paris bombed (Paris sous les bombes), seems, in light of recent riots, like an early warning sign that was ignored. | | | In an interview, Disiz, whose real name is Serigne M'Baye, said it is too simplistic to say that French politicians now accused of having ignored the ghettos' problems for decades need only to have listened to rap to learn that the lid was ready blow. | | | It quickly became a vehicle of expression for suburban youths, some of whom wove in musical and lyrical elements from their own North and West African backgrounds, and helped make France a vibrant center of hip-hop culture. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-11-21-french-rappers_x.htm
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| | Hip-hop with a French Twist / Les Nubians' soulful hip-hop incorporates world beat, reggae |
| | They aren't the only French artists finding common ground between divergent musical traditions. | | | Instead, the past four years have seen French music settle into an American-style corporate rut. | | | After seven years, they returned to France and formed Les Nubians as an a cappella group covering R&B, reggae and African songs. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/18/DD264184.DTL
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| | Hip Hop Charts - The First Internet Charts (SM) |
| | DJ Producer: DJ Cochise is a well known dj from Cleveland OH. | | | Hip Hop Charts - The First Internet Charts (SM) | | | Alternative Hip Hop Bass Rap Battles/Disses Christian Rap Freestyle Hardcore Rap Hip Hop General New School Old School Positive Vibes Spoken Word |
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| | French Hip-Hop - The Cult |
| | I remember a friend of mine (classmate-turned-neighbor) had a CD of some French electronic group (not Air!), I forget who it was but I remember liking it. | | | Space Ghost: "Oh oh, and, as long as I've got you here, tell that French DJ Tricky to move out." | | | oh i forgot, i think the french are responsible for disco. |
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http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showthread.php?p=659945
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| | More Hip Hop |
| | Most French hip-hop seems to have its own definitively non-American sound to it. | | | Saturday, July 2, 2005 Could it be My Sh > |
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http://journals.aol.com/live8paris/LIVE8--Paris/entries/396
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| | XLR8R - AUDIOFILE: TTC |
| | The first thing most listeners often notice when they check French hip-hop deconstructionists TTC is that voice: a high-pitched, cartoon-like thing that sounds like a giddy, helium-filled kid translating down-South speed raps into French. | | | Or if DJ Assault, Dizzee and Luke Skywalker started a porn version of Black Eyed Peas with French singer Lio in the role of the white bitch and they were produced by Gescom under heavy Lil’ Jon influence.” |
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http://www.xlr8r.com/content.php?uid=20E8F8C8F87E9259045B229E72913277
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| | BUREAU EXPORT - TOKYO |
| | Two years after "Ceci n’est pas un disque" (This is not a record), the modern parisian rappers are back with a new record:« Batards Sensibles » | | | Powered and designed by Le Studio Mondomix © 2004 French Music | | | Far from the french underground hip-hop's cliche, their new material reveals the collective work from six strong personalities in a combination of delicacy and brutality in the use of electronics, the contrast of the three MCs' voices and the multitracking and distrortion of those voices. |
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http://www.french-music.org/tpl_news_tokyo.php?reportage_id=1118
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| | News From France |
| | The music that accompanies it is not your everyday hip-hip: Kafig plays rap music along with classical violin and Andalusian guitar. | | | Unlike American hip-hop, French groups are usually made up of multiracial members who bring their own culture’s influence to light, making each group something unique. | | | The B-boy culture is what made such forms of expression as breakdancing, graffiti, and rap the popular phenomena that they are today. |
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http://www.info-france-usa.org/publi/nff/0203/che.htm
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| | The metamorphoses of French hip hop |
| | The DJ was accompanied by another talker,so that the DJ could concentrate on playing records. | | | In just a few years,everything seemed to be over.Hip hop was seen as a passing fad,which only lasted till the end of the 80s.The dancers went their own ways, breakdancing on concrete and waiting for better times. | | | They are the backbone of breaking;during them the breakers assemble on the floor.With two turntables it is possible to extend the drum breaks — the very basis of DJ-ing. |
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http://www.kiasma.fi/www/viewresource.php?lang=en&id=3LsabE_rHLEKyfwh
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| | Music: Sans Pression |
| | Their debut album, 514-50 Dans Mon Reseau, which was released earlier this year, has just been pressed on vinyl, something a lot of local DJs have been waiting for. | | | Rapping not only in French and English, but in Creole as well, the struggle to stay original, creative and tight has been an ongoing battle even for the talented duo of SP and Ti-Kid. | | | SP: When I go to Toronto and see groups perform, I say to myself, "Yo, we've got some skills compared to this," but the English side of things doesn't seem to be as organized as T.O. or the French side right now. |
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http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/1999/081299/music2.html
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| | Le Flow, Vol. 2: The French Hip Hop Avant Garde by Various Artists |
| | Portions of content provided by All Music Guide © 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc. All Music Guide is a registered Trademark of AEC One Stop Group, Inc. | | | Tag all your own MP3 files with album covers easily with MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus! | | | 2: The French Hip Hop Avant Garde by Various Artists |
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| | AUS/NZ hip-Hop - kirupaForum |
| | All proceeds go to the releasing of my forth coming album. | | | I had a french hip-hop song on my computer for a while, I think I kept it because it was funny. | | | Haven't heard any Aussie hiphop, but I've heard quite a lot of French stuff, which is generally cool. |
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http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92727
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| | Underground Hip Hop - Serius Stough Entertainment Lmtd. |
| | He produced the beats and spat on a couple tracks, and I primarily procured the lyrical lead. | | | We started off playin' Jazz (him on the Guit and me on the Sax) but ended up recording Hip Hop. | | | I've been rhymin' around for about 2 years, and hooked up with this cat named Julien in grade 13. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/hiphop2/serius
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| | CriticalDance :: View topic - Compagnie Kafig |
| | The tour is organised by the Dance Consortium, - a successful concept that enriches dance around the country. | | | The music (by AS'N) was great and the costumes just right (Carima Amarouche) and Artistic Director Mourad Merzouki brought a sense of fun to hip hop. | | | Venues such as Sadler's Wells need to programme hip hop because it is where the next generation of theatre-goers are coming from. |
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http://www.ballet-dance.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6257
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| | Hip Hop and Rap Radio Stations |
| | Hip Hop / Rap Music Online Radio Stations | | | Only the best hip hop and rap radio stations | | | If you have a hip hop or rap radio station |
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