Having sold over 600,000 albums since the first, Agarthareleased in 2017 and regularly freaked out by streaming listeners, Valentin Le Dû dit “Vald” returns with a fourth studio disc soberly named by his initial V. A highly anticipated album, which the interested party unveiled drop by drop on social networks.
First observation: Vald has lost none of his usual irony, as in the intro, Pandemic, in which he notably evokes conspiracy theories linked to Covid-19.
“You talk way too much. Don’t come near me, even if you don’t have any symptoms. I’m like your racli, I don’t want pain-co. If I go up again, I get out of sync’, time is relative to your tax declaration… Pandemic, pandemic. Poverty, bread, bread. I stay the course even in times of crisis, keep the mask on, there are so many creeks. the mask, it makes you look better, no, never take it off, it makes you credible” let go, for example.
The rapper does what he knows how to do best: talk about himself or the themes of the moment, with his recognizable voice and this tongue-in-cheek style. Sometimes it becomes more melancholic with an occasional piano melody, sometimes funky, sometimes bitter. Vald also knows how to properly surround himself as with Peon, title on which he invites Orelsan, one of the current bosses of French rap.
The rapper from Seine-Saint-Denis denounces: “Like all the others, I kill myself with the task to have a car, to have a hut. To own and go on a trip, when I’m sixty, it’ll be time to be sick. Talk about a sick dream, all that’s missing is a family here“.
Also present on the album V, the Belgian Hamza or his lifelong sidekick Suikon.
Vald will notably be performing this summer at the Francofolies in La Rochelle and at Lollapalooza in Paris, before starting a tour of France in October.