Tag: Rap
Gangsta rap ruined Sweden’s youth, and therefore criminal gangs can recruit children as killers, says researcher
The proportion of young criminal gang members has started to rise sharply in Sweden, and their crimes are even more brutal. Underage children are increasingly committing serious acts of gang…
ProSieben is reissuing The Voice of Germany with a big change – streaming the episodes of the rap edition a week earlier on Joyn [.]
Two hip hop generations meet here: The Berlin legend Kool Savas joins as a coach The Voice Rap by CUPRA against the 25-year-old Stuttgart MC Dardan at. Both are looking…
Ana Tijoux: Franco-Chilean rap tornado
On the banks of the Rio Loco festival (Toulouse), meet one of the emblematic figures of Latin rap: the Franco-Chilean activist Ana Tijoux. As she prepares to deliver her 5th…
Ten years in prison for shooting rap star
Prosecutors in Los Angeles had asked for 13 years in prison for Lanez, or Daystar Peterson as he is actually called, for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the feet after…
Eesah Yasuke: “Rap fell on me”
Native of Roubaix in the north of France, Eesah Yasuke continues his breakthrough in the world of rap. The young French singer had won the Printemps de Bourge 2022 grand…
Hugo, Baudelaire, Aragon… rap version
When two artists from the world of rap take up the classic texts of Rimbaud, Yourcenar, Apollinaire, Aragon… the result is “Recueil, réédition”, a surprising and heady album. The thirteen…
Hélio Batalha: Cape Verdean herald of conscious rap
While he has just delivered his second album, “Di Cairo a Cabo”, meeting in Praia (Cape Verde), during the Atlantic Music Expo, with a local child: rapper Hélio Batalha. In…
What’s wrong with rap? – The last time it was this bad was 30 years ago
No hip-hop song or album has reached the top of Billboard’s main charts in the US this year. It may be that rap is being displaced from the number one…
Vegas is superior in the second NHL final – these big Tackles spoke, EPN’s studio gave a rap to the Florida star: “It was just stupid”
The Vegas Golden Knights took their second shot at the NHL championship by defeating the Florida Panthers in the 2nd final with 7–2 goals. Vegas absolutely took the lazy Florida,…
Rap, splendor and misery of a popular but disparaged genre
Glory: “great brilliance”, but also “exaggerated pride”… The title of Bénédicte Delorme-Montini’s book, The Glory of Rap (Gallimard), condenses the ambivalence of this genre, which is as popular as it…