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I was just in France for quite a long time, and I learned quite a bit about French music. While I am absolutely not an expert on French music, and I am not pretending to be one, I am very fascinated by it. While Serge Gainsbourg, Joe Dassin and Claude Francois are some of the most famous examples of French artists from the past, I am more interested in French hip hop and R&B.
MC Solaar is of course the most famous French rapper, and I find him to be excellent. Not only are his rhymes really good, he makes songs that have meaning. I also was interested by a whole crop of young hip artists who write songs about growing up in the suburbs (which is where I spent my time in France, in the rough northern suburbs of Paris). While a lot of French rap songs are about girls, love and violence-I felt like there were quite a lot of songs about racism, social issues and growing up in tough situations.
These are some of my impressions of French rap music from where I was there, I was wondering what other people thought about French music |
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