SP, from Sans Pression | “Music saved my life”

With Ti-Kid, SP, leader of Sans Pression, created the only album he could have made 25 years ago. 514-50 in my network is the reflection of a difficult journey marked by stops in very different places.




Before

Born in Buffalo, United States, Kamenga Mbikay arrived in Quebec as a child. “I was the only English speaker at school, the only Black in Sherbrooke. It was difficult,” says SP

Around the age of 10, he discovered hip-hop through breakdancing. A few years later, while he now lives in LaSalle, Montreal, he writes his first verses in English and forms a group with his cousins. MC Solaar, the French-speaking rap movement and Dubmatique reached his ears when he moved to Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville. “Even though I took it seriously in English, I didn’t feel like anyone was listening to me,” confides SP. I started writing in French, then I did the test on a crowd. After two sentences, everyone freaked out! I announced to my cousins: “I’m rapping in French from now on.” »


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