La Nuit de la rue, the rap festival that wants to extend the fight of the Abbé-Pierre Foundation

The Abbé-Pierre Foundation is launching its first rap festival on Friday at the Bataclan in Paris. Black M, Fianso, Hatik and other rappers are there.

“La Nuit de la rue” is the name of a brand new rap festival, two evenings of concerts organized on Friday December 15 and Saturday December 16 at the Bataclan, in Paris, for a good cause: the fight against evil. accommodation. It is the Abbé-Pierre Foundation which brings together these artists who are not so accustomed to these charitable commitments. A new dynamic is being created.

Black M, Fianso, Hatik… The Abbé-Pierre Foundation brought together some great people for this first edition. “There is something in common in what the Abbé-Pierre Foundation and these rap artists do”notes Christophe Robert, the general director of the foundation. “I think of Nekfeu in Fuck the clones, which took up the passage from a speech by Abbé Pierre. But it’s true, speaking out on behalf of a cause is sometimes difficult.”

Raising funds, but not only

But for Abbé-Pierre, they are taking the plunge. Fianso has been the sponsor of the Foundation for four years, Hatik joins him this time on stage. “There’s a phrase in Spiderman that I like to use, it’s ‘with great power comes great responsibility’says the rapper. We experience precariousness directly or indirectly, so it is important because we can shape future generations. If we can do our part by trying from time to time to have a positive message that allows us to have a better world, we shouldn’t be shy.”

And to those who find it rare to see rappers get involved in this way, he replies that he was just waiting for that, to be asked. “I think that rappers have always been ready to commit, except that, before, we perhaps gave them less of a chance” to do so, explains Hatik.

“When we see the Abbé-Pierre Foundation highlighting rap and rap highlighting the Abbé-Pierre Foundation, it’s a win-win, and I find that very good.”

Hatik, rapper

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It will therefore be an opportunity to raise funds, of course, but not only that. “It also gives visibility to this fight of the Abbé-Pierre foundation among these young peopleadds Christophe Robert. But also more broadly, because urban music today is the most listened to in our country.” And incidentally, it’s also an opportunity to party at the Bataclan.