An egotrip rapper, a committed rapper: Favé and Eesah Yasuke don’t have the same style but they confirmed on stage at Printemps de Bourges on Friday April 21 that they were here to stay.
The Printemps de Bourges has not only bet this year on the heavyweights of rap like Dinos or Gazo. The festival also bet on the new generation with Favé, all in ego-trip, or the rapper Eesah Yasuke and her committed pen.
The young Favé panics the counters
Favé, 18, is a meteorite from the Paris region. Spotted at 16 thanks to pieces posted on social networks, he is currently making a splash with his title Urus which is approaching 40 million listens on the Spotify listening platform and Gazo chose him for a featuring, one of those collaborations that rap is so fond of, on No Licking.
Favé is the embodiment of this “frenetic rap scene“, as summarized by the director of the Printemps de Bourges Boris Vedel.The rap public, it’s not even in love anymore, it’s passionate, overnight, artists unknown until a few months ago fill rooms just by going through their own social networks“, he adds.
“It’s going so fast, I haven’t had time to realize that it’s a chance of phew all that I live“, slips the rapper to AFP. “I have never been to see in my life neither a concert nor a festival, my first experience of all this is now“, he confesses. “I’m prepared / Suburban ready to move all of Paris“, he announced in his single mercedes released a year ago.
Unimpressed, Favé therefore sang on Friday April 21 for the first time in a festival at the Printemps de Bourges, for his fourth appearance only on stage in his budding career. On stage, the young rapper is supported by a DJ perched on a sort of giant Space Invader. When he tumbles, a forest of smartphones lights up to film him and the spectators, the overwhelming majority of teenagers, already know the refrains and punchlines by heart. It will pass this summer by the Solidays festival, among others.
Eesah Yasuke writes about what touches her
Rapper Eesah Yasuke succeeded him on stage, with a different style, more calm, more thoughtful, which managed to capture the attention of an audience who had come there to party. The young woman – who does not say her age – began to write poems at 14 to put down on paper a bumpy life. Originally from Roubaix (she now lives in Lille), she was then placed in a home that took her away from her sport-study project to become a sprinter.
The desire to write, which became the desire to rap, resurfaced when the young adult was about to become “specialized educator to work in day care, with people in situations of exclusion“.”I want to sing about what touches me“, she says. Her songs denounce racism (NGR) or the rise of far-right ideas (X-Trem). After a first mini-album, Exquisite Corpsereleased in 2021, the second scheduled for May 30, Prophecyis inspired by his journey.
In addition to his own show, Eesah Yasuke was one of the voices of an evening at the Printemps de Bourges concocted by Oxmo Puccino. This figure of French rap was seduced by the sensitive rap of this rapper whose stage name comes from Yasuké, the first black samurai in the 16th century. Captured by slave traders in Mozambique, he arrived in Japan, where he entered the service of a lord. Eesah Yasuke has practiced ju-jitsu, as much for this martial art as for its philosophy: “we don’t use it to attack, we know how to defend ourselves no matter what“.