The program was recorded the day before, specified the announcement banner of this new number of What an era!, the second part of the evening talk show on France 2, this Saturday May 27, 2023. An important clarification because Léa Salamé notably received the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak, not yet aware of the Cannes Film Festival winners and political remarks made by the director Justine Triet, Palme d’or of this new edition. At his side, the trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, currently on tour, the famous producer Thomas Langmann and Michel Denisot, who came to present a documentary on the incredible success story of the Rassam family, as well as the rapper Gims still promoting his album. Mozart’s last wishesand announcing his next big tour. And the least that can be said is that the singer “in the voice of Pavarotti” was not spared the mockery on set! In question, the remarks he had made last March in the program Yes Hustle, on YouTube, where he claimed that the pharaohs had electricity. “Africa is Wakanda, damn it! During the time of the Kush Empire, there was electricity” he said before adding: “The pyramids that we see, at the top there is gold, and gold is the best conductor for electricity… They were antennas! People had electricity and historians know it.”
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“I don’t regret, because I hurt no one”
Words that had made historians jump and especially laugh at Internet users. Placed on the grill this Saturday evening by Léa Salamé, the rapper made a point of specifying in which context he had pronounced this theory: “It’s an interview that lasted almost two hours, I talked about my life, my career… And I did a minute and a half on the pyramids. (…) As an example of what Africa can do.” To justify his excitement, he adds: “It’s an exciting subject, as I speak of it, I’m passionate”. Does he regret his remarks then asks the journalist, “I don’t regret, because I hurt no one” he blurts out, thinking that anyway”Egypt should remain a fascinating and mysterious subject” and remains personally “shocked” that “it’s getting so big”. And faced with the exercise of the “photocall”, this wall where images parade that the guest must comment on, -and after having humorously compared the beauty of his companion DemDem to that of a Cleopatra-, the rapper, seeing his own portrait cannot encourage himself to be silent: “Shut up !”he starts. This is surely the best moral of this whole story.
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️ The question that would be asked @GIMS to himself ? “Shut up” #QuelleEpoque@France2tv@LeaSalamepic.twitter.com/LGJ5pIvnLE
– What an era! (@QuelleEpoqueOff) May 27, 2023