Lomepal, after a gigantic tour in 2019 and records sold by trucks, releases its new album, Wrong Order. After a break that had become necessary for him, carried away by his immense success, he forced himself to come back with something new and coherent. The upcoming tour is dizzying, with Zeniths from Amiens to Strasbourg, via Nantes, Toulouse or Nancy, and above all, three Accor Arenas in Paris on March 28, 29 and 30.
Three years earlier, at the end of 2019, when the world still knew nothing about confinement, Lomepal completed its tour of large halls. “I wanted each date to be exceptional, he explains. Because I felt that I was not far from finding myself in a somewhat mechanical date.”
Acclaimed everywhere, the rapper took advantage of the immense success of his second album, Jeannine, before drawing the curtain. Then came the pandemic, the shutdown, the trip, a deep reflection for a year and a half before managing to write again. This is how is born wrong order, his third album, which marks his return with his particular style, even more musical, his contemporary rap, between humor and depression. Except that here, Antoine Valentinelli, his real name, chose fiction.
“I didn’t want to do the same thing again, emphasizes Lomepal, but rather take things the wrong way, with lots of choices like not telling my private life directly, not using certain somewhat immature turns of phrase that I had before because they no longer resemble me. So inevitably, there is something about digestion of what I experienced…”
“I realized that what inspired me was this quest for identity, this loneliness, the denial, the fact of searching, of asking questions, of making up our own minds. All of this has drew a character on the sidelines and that’s what touched me.”
We guess it in the texts and in any case, he does not hide it: depression watching, Lomepal asked himself 1,000 questions about success, inspiration, the image he sends back.
“What makes me still able to be loved?, asks Lomepal. Who does what ? You can’t make music without being driven by a desire: for some, that of remaining popular, others that of earning money. Me, it was to prove over time that my career had a meaning and that it did not stop when it was walking at its highest. Three discs at barely 30 years old, and Lomepal already has something to tell, he who digs into his identity with each album, never afraid to reveal his flaws.
Rapper Lomepal delivers “Mauvais Ordre” for his return – the report by Yann Bertrand
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