Already a fourth album for FouKi, which comes from rap and from the Discs 7 stablee Ciel, but who has become a real Quebec pop star. The proof: his next shows at Place Bell and at the Videotron Centre.
“I’m Ricardo’s favorite rapper,” he sings on We do itpiece on which appears Imposs.
We will not hide it: we are not used to listening to FouKi to explore the darkest meanders of our soul, but to have a good time with a certain lightness specific to pop music. However, FouKi’s thirst for happiness is accompanied by greater introspection on Zayon.
If we can reproach FouKi for preaching by excess of candor on the opening piece Cowboy (They all want to save the planet / But first we should respect it), when we hear the guitar solo at the end, we think that for FouKi, anything goes. Especially since he is now the main composer of his songs (in collaboration with his friends QuietMike, Pops and Poolboy, Ruffsound, Adem Boutlidja, BYNON and Jay Century).
The main interested party often repeats it: he does not want to stick to rap. “I make my music and that’s it “, he said in an interview with The Press.
If FouKi pays too easy a tribute to a decade he never knew – and which preceded that of his birth – the 1980s, heart of the city beats with great pop melody, while the ballad We precisely hits its target in emotion. It is also with a disarming naturalness that FouKi affixes his flow relax to the rhythm of No Stress (with Belgian rappers Primero & Swing).
Saint-Han Quinzoua duet with P’tit Belliveau, will undoubtedly be better listened to on Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day than in the middle of February, when the lyrics of F.. My Life some flawed formulas (My Life, but I still love it / Yes I still love myself / Even when the sky is falling on my head).
It’s with the song Segala that the album reaches its peak: for the melodic intensity, the atmosphere, the vocal harmonies, the keyboard arrangements. FouKi recounts the escapades of his Montreal youth with a melancholy and a depth in which we would like to see him plunge even further.
Rap
Zayon
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Discs 7e Sky