In this nine-minute long scathing song, which can be listened to below, the rappers call for people to vote in the second round to block the far right in the second round of the early legislative elections scheduled for next Sunday.
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At the initiative of producer and composer Djamel Fezari, alias DJ Kore, and designer and artistic director Ramdane Touhami, twenty rappers lay down their rhymes and multiply the punchlines on No Passarhasnota collective piece in which they call on young people to vote and block the far right in the second round of early legislative elections on Sunday July 7.
Rap legends such as Akhenaton from IAM, Seth Gueko, Mac Tyer, Pit Baccardi and Sofiane, as well as the young guard, such as Zola, RK, Soso Maness, Kerchak and Demi Portion, were present.
Released on the night of Monday to Tuesday July 2, this nine-minute long incendiary film, which takes up the famous anti-fascist slogan No Passarán (“They will not pass”) by the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), was produced in a hurry, while the National Rally was on the verge of power. All funds generated by the listening of the song will be donated to the Abbé Pierre Foundation.
The idea germinated in DJ Kore’s head on June 9, after the dissolution of the National Assembly and when the National Rally had just finished ahead in the European elections.
It’s about coming back”to the essence of rap, namely: getting a message across”explained Kore on Monday July 1 in Release. “The situation is serious. When we learn that the leading party of young people is the RN, if we did not react, it would be a serious mistake on our part (…), it is our way of campaigning“, explained Ramdane Touhami to AFP.
It is the rapper Sofiane Zermani alias Fianso, now also known as an actor, who opens the march, “Finger in the air for the cistes-ra, CNews in the blind spot / Shakes and tremors, fuck the Rally”. Zola takes over by denouncing racial profiling, while Nahir recalls that “Deschamps won the World Cup with the sons of immigrants“.
Kerchak calls for action: “Get up, go vote, you can’t stay seated when we are France, these bastards are dumbfounded” ; just like Soso Maness: “Guys, you have to wake up, even if it means putting your two fingers in the socket / Because history repeats itself, it smells like burning in the breeze“. As for Pit Baccardi, he prophesies: “If you stay neutral, expect a bad spring.“.
“The 30s and their smell are making a comeback.”
Akhenaten of IAMin “No Pasaran”
The language is sometimes vulgar and insulting – “Marine and Marion the whores, a blow of the stick on these female dogs in heat” (Alkpote) or “All I know is that we don’t vote for Marine and fuck Bardella’s mother” (Kerchak) –, always virulent, even threatening – “If the fascists come, I’ll go out with a big gun.“(Ashe 22) – but Alkpote, known for his salacious verbal outbursts, sums up the intention well: “We do artistic violence“. As to “Jordan, you’re dead, Jordan, you’re dead” launched by Fianso, it is a reference to the MMA fight of Cédric Doumbé addressing his rival Jordan Zébo.
It was Akhenaton who participated in the legendary collective anthem 11:30 against racist laws released in 1997 with a bunch of rap figures such as Rockin’Squat by Assassin, Passi and Fabe, who planted the banderillas with the skill we know.
“They all want to play three-cushion billiards with dirty and ugly / But sometimes it fails, the black ball lands in the pocket (…) It’s not about a ballot, on a daily basis we have to fight / It’s not a candidate, it’s the ideas that we have to fight / The 30s and their smell are making a comeback. (…) Nothing has changed, I prefer the outstretched hand to the outstretched arm.”
It did not take long for the main leaders of the National Rally to respond with indignation on the social network X.
“The famous ‘incisive punchlines’: calls for murder, misogynism (sic) violent, crass anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories. The mental universe of the extreme left is increasingly toxic“, reacted Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally.
Marine Le Pen also protested against certain comments on X, formerly Twitter.The New New Popular Front. Sounds tempting, doesn’t it? I hope the prosecution will take up this abjection.” “Thank you to this collective of cheesy rappers for the thousands of votes that their hateful clip will bring to the candidates of the union national“, commented in turn, on the same social network, his niece, Marion Maréchal.
For his part, Éric Ciotti, president of Les Républicains who joined the National Rally for the legislative elections, is taking advantage of the opportunity to settle political scores. “These rappers who insult and call for murder could be Xavier Bertrand’s ministers“, says the outgoing MP for the first constituency of Alpes-Maritimes ironically.