Everyday this summer we talk about a great love song. Tuesday, July 4, the first love story that rap shares with all the French public, on the legendary album “Qui sème le vent reap the tempo” by MC Solaar.
It’s easy to get nostalgic for Caroline. France is still naive at the time, and MC Solaar makes us hear a momentum for a young woman he tells us he loves, and with a skillful, virtuoso, malignant language. A lady for whom he deploys all the suits of a deck of cards.
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We are in 1991 and MC Solaar offers French rap its first great love song. It’s a bit of a denial: hip hop has been established in the Paris region and in Marseille for a few years with artists, some of whom will become huge stars, but this young man conquers the general public – that of middle school -city in the sub-prefectures, very far from the real or fantasized cities of nascent rap. And also the parents of these college students. All of France, what.
And it’s an important album for the history of popular music in France, the album Who sows the wind reaps the tempo.
In this episode of These songs that make the summeryou hear excerpts from:
McSolaar, carolina, 1991
McSolaar, Who sows the wind reaps the tempo, 1991
McSolaar, Fashion victim, 1991
McSolaar, Part time, 1991
McSolaar, Get out of here, 1991
McSolaar, Currency, 1991
McSolaar, Caroline (remix) 1993
Gilbert Montagne, carolina, 1997
marka, carolina, 2004
Brother Delavega, carolina, 2016
Vianney, carolina, 2018
McSolaar, carolina, 2017
McSolaar, carolina, 1991
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