French rapper MC Solaar arrives at the Place des Arts this Friday night for his first concert at Les Francos de Montréal since 1998. The great French language handler will be joined by the group New Big Band Project, along with strings , brass and its choirs that will give new color to its greatest hits.
MC Solaar, real name Claude M’Barali, enjoyed a rebirth last year with the 2021 re -release of his first three albums, never making the transition to digital due to a misunderstanding. 20 years with its Polydor label. The opportunity for a new generation to discover hip-hop’s jazzy Whoever sows doubt reaps tempo (1991), against prose (1994) at Heavenly (1997).
For them it is vintage, but they will see modernity. We had made sure that the music was still timeless, it was well mixedexplanation of the rapper. And the lyrics are still present. Because I’m not a diarist, i.e., a man who talks about everyday things; I had a little more perspective.
Friday at 8 pm, the rapper will present a medley of these three albums, as well as the five that follow, with Quebec rapper D-Track in the first part. Caroline, stay away, Solar is crying… Lots of songs to be rediscovered with new sound effects, under the musical direction of Issam Krimi. We have the sound and dynamics of the weather, but with a poetic flightsummarizes Mc Solarar.
Putting poetry at the heart of rap
Words are the main ingredient of any rap artist, but this is doubly true for MC Solaar, who has always stood out for his stylistic figures and his researched texts. According to him, this love for the French language made his success even as much as the rhythms produced by his fellow producers, including Jimmy Jay, but also the members of the Cassius duo: Hubert boombass Blanc-Francard and Philippe “Zdar” Cerboneschi, pioneers of the French Touch who died in 2019.
American or German, whatever they liked [de ma musique], doesn’t it sound like what they get on MTV; it is something elseMC Solar remembers his beginnings. We want to prove that rap can be something higher, and not just a lament.
The artist is also distinguished by the words of his songs, which move away from the violence associated with gangsta rap emerging in the United States in parallel with MC Solaar’s debut. Not much violence then, but less misogyny.
The fight against misogyny began with the first albumhe explains. I don’t want to have a cult of force, it’s not in my code of ethics. Never crush someone for who they are […] I have many stories of winning women, such as in carolina, Adam and Eve where Victim of fashion.
MC Solaar will be in concert on Friday night, at exactly 8 pm, at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier. Places are still available.
This text was written froman interview conducted by Isabelle Craig for the show Penelope. Comments may have been edited for clarity or brevity.
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