DJ Dee Nasty is embodied in The world of tomorrow on Arte, by Andranic Manet. Dee Nasty also participated in the writing of the series and composed its music. The world of tomorrow is available in six episodes on the arte.tv platform and is broadcast on Thursdays on the channel.
1983: in a city of Saint-Denis, Bruno Lopes and Didier Morville, the future Kool Shen and Joey Star discover break dancing. At the Olympiades, in Paris in the 13th arrondissement, Lady V signs graffiti on the facades of buildings. At the La Chapelle metro station, a passionate young DJ organizes open-air parties, where he tries to reconstitute the sound he discovered in San Francisco, the scratches, the handling of turntables.
Series The world of tomorrow on Arte recounts this moment wonderfully. Not only the history of the NTM group but also the journey of this DJ who will record the first hip hop album in French. His artist name: Dee Nasty. He actively participated in the writing of the series. he really discovered all that in San francisco…
Dee Nasty says: “I was 15. I remember very well, but I had no idea what it was. There were breakers at the terminals, at the tram connections, a drummer, a lino, and who were making acrobatics. I had no idea it was breakdance at all. There was already graffiti, all that. You didn’t see that at all in France. Coming from Paris, which was a bit gloomy at the time, with especially the arrival of heroin, to go there, it brightened up my life.”
In Paris, Dee Nasty creates, as in San Francisco, “block parties”, evenings in the open air. Andranic Manet plays the young character. He looked like Dee Nasty: “That is to say, tall, thin, with a somewhat nice head, says Dee Nasty, but not only. Besides, someone who comes from rap too. Andranic came to my house for me to coach him, to teach him how to scratch and bring him back to where I was at the time.”
Series The world of tomorrow shines with its punch lines, worthy of Joey Starr, its narration, and its concern for veracity, in every detail. Like the music by Dee Nasty.
“I made music that sticks exactly to the times. Besides, every six months, there was a new style of way of making the beats. When the story takes place in 1983, I make music of 83 , when we’re in 84, I make a piece of 84, when the little brothers of Big Brothers took over the thing and said to themselves: you just have to rap well. A drum machine is enough. Just a good rapper, a DJ doing things to make the track even more aggressive. And that’s enough.”
The world of tomorrow, an exciting dive into the birth of hip hop in France. Six episodes available for free on arte.tv and broadcast on Thursday evenings on Arte.