One more number What an era! epic. This Saturday, May 27, 2023, just after the closing ceremony of the 76e edition of the Cannes Film Festival, France 2’s second-evening talk show, received an eclectic new set. Alongside the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak, 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, Amélie Mauresmo, new boss of Roland Garros and, to open the discussion ball, the rapper Gims. The latter, still promoting his album Mozart’s last wishes must have suffered some teasing following his declarations affirming that the pharaohs had electricity. If he explained it, specifying that this passage of the interview for “Yes Hustle” on YouTube only lasted two minutes out of a two-hour sequence, the singer nevertheless claims to be amazed at the extent of the controversy and has no regrets: “I don’t regret, because I hurt no one”he explained facing Léa Salamé. And this, contrary to his remarks on the “Have a good year”in 2021, when he asked Muslims not to present their wishes to him because it did not correspond to his “convictions”: “I regret that… my parents are Christians… I regret, I shouldn’t have done that, the timing was not good…” he commented, before adding: “It wasbullshit, that’s for sure”.
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“They put everyone on the ground, my mother, they slapped her… it was not useful”
If the 37-year-old artist got out of the situation perfectly with a lot of humor, he did not fail to soften also by evoking his childhood. And it is Laurent Ruquier’s former sidekick who asks him to tell about the police intervention he experienced when he lived with his family in a squat. “One morning you are with your parents, and there you say: ‘bailiffs and the police are breaking down the door, i will never forget the vision of my mother handcuffed face down during one of these raids. What is going on at that moment in the head of the little boy that you were? throws the journalist at him. And Gims, in a calm voice, to answer: “It goes so fast, you know a raid, it’s the police, a special unit for evictions, we have deadlines, we send you a letter, two letters, etc. and after a while it’s the police who arrive, as if it were a network of traffickers, whereaswe’re just squatters.”he explains before specifying: “They put everyone down, my mother, they slapped her, then they put her on the floor, handcuffs, face down, one knee on her temple… it was not useful.” And Christophe Dechavanne to launch it on the subject of traffickers. The “tenor rapper” confesses: “afterwards, I shared squats with drug addicts, drug dealers. I was offered to do a bit of business, to pass on, when I was a kid, but no… I was so absorbed in music, drawing…” he said with a pout showing that he was obviously not interested. He who spent all his schooling while living in street squats today has fun saying a good word: “When I went out, I came home”, he says, amused. Because he does not seem to keep such a terrible memory of it: “Squats were hard because I was comparing myself, watching my buddies life at school and thinking yeah, it was a lot harder, but it’s actually a time when I didn’t didn’t need the money… I didn’t think about that actually, it was my parents’ concern.” And to conclude, philosopher: “when you’re a kid, you adapt to all situations”.
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️ “They slapped my mother, put her on the ground, handcuffed face down” @GIMS evokes the police intervention to dislodge his family from a squat, and recounts the “difficult” life in the street #QuelleEpoque@France2tv@LeaSalamepic.twitter.com/FafSywc4YD
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