Slaï whose real name is Patrick Sylvestre is a French singer from Guadeloupe, born in 1973 in Val d’Oise (France).
Slaï est né en métropole en 1973. Il passera une partie de son enfance et adolescence en Guadeloupe jusqu’en 1996, date à laquelle il fait son retour dans l’hexagone.
Il se passionne très tôt pour la musique. En 1998 Flamme, aura un grand succès dans la Caraïbe, alors qu’il n’est pas distribué en France et le sera quelques semaines plus tard.
Entre temps, il produit d’autres artistes par l’intermédiaire de sa société de production.
Il revient en 2002 avec un album intitulé tout simplement Slaï, le titre La dernière danse le fera connaître du grand public et lui ouvrira enfin les portes du succès et celles des radios, s’ensuivra une réédition de “Flamme” dans un genre nouveau. C’est ensuite un enchainement de succès tels que Flamme ressorti pour l’occasion en France, Ce soir ou jamais, Après la tempête extrait de l’album Florilège sorti en 2004, qui confirmeront le goût du public pour ses nouveaux sons tropicaux; l’album fut sacré très vite double disque d’or.
En 2011, il revient avec un nouvel album Escale porté par le premier single Autour de toi.
(PageFive) TAL – Le sens de la vie feat. L’ALGERINO (Clip officiel)
Check it. Rocking Da AIrTime in LaFayette, Hitting on Tops! #1 On DA CHARTS is TAL – Le sens de la vie feat. L’ALGERINO.
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L’Algérino, is a French rapper signed to Sinik‘s Six-O-Nine (609) label. on Da MySpace.
Tal on iTunes. Tal Officiel. “In Hebrew, TAL means morning dew … but it could be sunshine , as the girl who radiates… Zest for life, passion for music, joy of singing, creative appetite, thirst to communicate, curiosity about the world today and love.” –Biographie
(PageFive – Music) La Fouine – Vécu (feat Kamelancien)
La Fouine
Laouni Mouhid, commonly known by his alias La Fouine (English: The Weasel) or Fouiskin (born December 25, 1981 in Trappes, Yvelines), is a French rapper of Moroccan origins from the city of Trappes, Yvelines in the Paris western suburbs. He is an established figure in French rap. La Fouine signed with Sony Records in 2003 and released his debut album, Bourré au son, in 2005. La Fouine released his second album, Aller-Retour, on March 12, 2007. The American beatmaker Focus produced four songs on the album. His most recent album, Mes Repères, was released on February 23, 2009 and is two times gold record in France. His new album, a double CD intituled “La Fouine Vs Laouni” released on February 14.
He has also his own label “Banlieue Sale Music” and his own clothing line called “Street Swagg”.
Kamelancien, also known as the Kamelanc’, whose real name is Jdayni Kamel Houari, is a French rapper born on 13 May 1980 and originally from Oujda, Morocco.
He was born in France in 1980, and grew up in Gentilly, Val-de-Marne. According to Kamelancien, he has always wanted to be a rapper and began writing lyrics in 1993.
His clash with The Weasel
The two rappers had an ongoing beef that lasted several years. Finally the two reconciled.
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Son clash avec La Fouine
Le clash, ce sera avec un autre rappeur, qui comme lui est marocain et monte en puissance: La Fouine. Et c’est Kamelancien qui lance les hostilités en le clashant sur un son nommé Reste Vrai. Il lui reproche notamment de trop vouloir s’inspirer des américains, en l’occurrence Snoop Dogg, et le traite de “visage tordu”. En 2005, La Fouine lui répond sur le morceau Ferme ta gueule en l’insultant à plusieurs reprises, se moquant de son rap et de “sa voix trop bizarre”. Il lui reproche de n’être présent que sur des featuring et des compilations, et de n’avoir jamais sorti ni d’album, ni de single. Enfin, il lui reproche également d’avoir changer de comportement envers lui sans aucune raison. Kamelancien rapplique aussitôt avec son titre Crise cardiaque et va même le menacer ouvertement dans l’émission Couvre feu animée par Jacky Brown. Ce clash opposant deux rappeurs marocains en train de monter, aux styles complètement différents, l’un originaire de Oujda et représentant le 94 et l’autre originaire de Casablanca et représentant le 78, sera l’un des plus célèbres de l’histoire du rap français, chacun y allant de son petit pique en direction de l’autre au fil des années. Cependant, éprouvant des regrets par rapport au fait qu’il ait insulté la mère de Kamelancien, ayant perdu sa propre mère quelque temps plus tôt, La Fouine s’excuse en direct sur Skyrock, une radio nationale française, pour les propos tenus.
Epilogue
Finalement, six années après, les deux rappeurs finiront par se réconcilier en mai 2011, le mois où Kamelancien devait sortir son nouvel album. En effet, c’est suite à l’initiative de La Fouine qui décide de l’inviter à son concert au Zénith de Paris, une invitation que Kamelancien honore car il l’a trouve très respectable. A la surprise de tous donc, Zaho présente ce soir là et La Fouine commence à entamer le tube de Kamelancien, Quand ils vont partir (feat Zaho), une chanson que La Fouine apprécie particulièrement, lui qui a perdu sa mère quelque temps auparavant. Puis débarque à la surprise de tous Kamelancien qui poursuit la chanson. Le public est réceptif et manifeste sa joie de voir les deux rappeurs ensemble, chose improbable auparavant. Les deux MC promettent, devant tout le monde et de manière officielle, que la hache de guerre et définitivement enterrée, qu’“ils ont muri” et qu’ils vont collaborer à l’avenir pour “faire évoluer le rap français”. Quelque temps après, les deux rappeurs coopèrent en effet, au point de faire un featuring ensemble, Vécu, qui connaît un grand succès (le clip a été vu plus de 8 millions de fois, dont le premier million en seulement l’espace de trois jours
Present
En novembre 2010, il annonce son retour en signant avec le label Karismatik (label indépendant où se trouve Kenza Farah) et sort dans la foulée Lion du désert, le premier extrait de son nouvel album prévu pour Mai 2011. Il en profite pour changer son pseudonyme en Kamelanc’. Mais il quitte en Mai 2011, le label pour signer chez la nouvelle structure crée par Banlieue Sale S-kal Records avec Sultan, MLC , Najim, V&K , Bass 54 et A2P et Jihan ainsi que le grand Farid dit “Rnad”. L’album est donc repoussé à 2012.
Noisia, stylized as NOISIΛ (‘VISION’ rotated 180°), is a Dutchelectronic music trio consisting of members Nik Roos,Martijn van Sonderen and Thijs de Vlieger from Groningen, The Netherlands.
They produce a wide variety of music including drum and bass, dubstep, breakbeat and house music. Noisia perform across the world and own three record labels (Vision, Division and Invisible Recordings).
Foreign Beggars are a BritishHip Hop, Grime and Dubstep group based in London. The group consists of MCs Orifice Vulgatron, Metropolis, producer Dag Nabbit and DJ Nonames and are renowned for their eclectic and energetic live shows. Currently forming well over a hundred shows a year the group has performed with a number of high profile artists spanning a range of musical genres.
Foreign Beggars release their records through Dented Records, a label which was created and owned by the group to support their own material and other UK underground artists.
“We’re all Parisians. In the capital, the poor are in direct contact with the rich, more than in the suburbs. You can live in a beautiful building but the top floor piled in a maid’s room with your brothers and sisters.”
Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam (Tamil: மாதங்கி ‘மாயா’ அருள்பிரகாசம், Mātaṅki ‘Māyā’ Aruḷpirakācam ; born 17 July 1977), better known by her stage name M.I.A. (a play on her name and for Missing in Action), is a British recording artist, songwriter, painter and director of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. Her compositions combine elements of electronica, dance, alternative, hip hop and world music.
M.I.A. began her career in 2000 as a visual artist, filmmaker and designer in West London before beginning her recording career in 2002. Since rising to prominence in early 2004 for her singles “Sunshowers” and “Galang“, charting in the UK and Canada and reaching number 11 on the Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales in the US, she has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Grammy Awards and the Mercury Prize.
She is the only artist in history to be nominated for an Academy Award, Grammy Award, Brit Award, Mercury Prize and Alternative Turner Prize, and the first artist of Asian descent to be nominated for an Academy and Grammy Award in the same year. In 2005, M.I.A. was artist of the year by Spin and URB and M.I.A. is named as one of the defining artists of the 2000s decade by Rolling Stone in its “Best of the Decade” list. Esquire magazine ranked M.I.A. on its list of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century and Time magazine named her one of the world’s most influential people.
He was sixteen during the genocide. His mother was Hutu and his father was Tutsi. An armed group entered the family home, killing his parents and siblings. Cornelius was a powerless witness to the massacre, he was spared because he hid behind a sofa. He fled to Zaire after days of walking, and found refuge with a German couple who were friends of his parents.
In July1997, he left Germany to continue his studies in communications at the Concordia University of Montreal. A few months after arriving in Quebec, he made the acquaintance of Peter Gage and Martin Gardy (aka Gardy Fury), with whom he formed the group R’n’B O.N.E.
He dropped out of the band in January2001, to pursue his solo career.
In 2002, he participated in several projects. He composed and wrote the title Tonight for compiling R & B COCKTAIL 2 (Ghetto R & B / Sony Music ), and the title If only we loved the album Hip Hop Folies (Sony Music), featuring; Passi, Daddy Mory, K-mel, Sniper, Nâdiya, Sheraz, MBE, Nathalie Loriot, and The Weasel.
Cornelius is working with the Red Cross to raise awareness of Canadian children victimized by war.
Toujours dans la même année, il est sollicité pour écrire la chanson représentant la France au concours Eurovision, ce qu’il accepte. Il dévoile la chanson Vous c’est nous lors de l’émission spéciale, présentée par Michel Drucker et Claudy Siar, au cours de laquelle les téléspectateurs français élisent la jeune Virginie Pouchain, révélée chez Pascal Sevran, comme l’artiste qui ira défendre les chances françaises à Athènes. Mais ce titre ne semble pas convaincre les organisateurs du concours et Corneille est invité à revoir sa copie. Finalement, c’est un autre titre, Il était temps, composé en urgence, qui sera retenu. Malgré tout, le succès ne sera pas au rendez-vous, Virginie Pouchain n’arrivant qu’en vingt-deuxième position sur un total de vingt-quatre participants, à l’issue de la finale.
Le 9septembre2006, il épouse Sofia De Medeiros, sa compagne depuis cinq ans, dans une petite cérémonie au cœur des Laurentides, au nord de Montréal.
Après un album anglophone, il revient sur la scène française avec un quatrième album studio co-écrit avec son épouse, intitulé, tout simplement, Sans titre, sorti le 19octobre2009. Entre temps, le 9avril2010, il a eu un heureux évènement, la naissance d’un premier enfant, un petit garçon, Merrik. Check it.
Check it: Corneille.ca – Site officiel de l’artiste Corneille – The official site of the artist Corneille.
La Fouine
Laouni Mouhid, commonly known by his alias La Fouine (English: The Weasel) or Fouiskin (born December 25, 1981 in Trappes, Yvelines), is aFrench rapper of Moroccan origins from the city of Trappes, Yvelines in the Paris western suburbs. He is an established figure in French rap. La Fouine signed with Sony Records in 2003 and released his debut album, Bourré au son, in 2005. La Fouine released his second album, Aller-Retour, on March 12, 2007. The American beatmaker Focus produced four songs on the album. His most recent album, Mes Repères, was released on February 23, 2009 and is two times gold record in France. His new album, a double CD intituled “La Fouine Vs Laouni” released on February 14.
He has also his own label “Banlieue Sale Music” and his own clothing line called “Street Swagg”.
Due to the civil war in his native Zaire, now Democratic Republic of the Congo, he escaped at the age of ten with his mother to France. He grew up in the Paris suburbs, in the département of Yvelines.
Like so many young people in the French suburbs, he fell in love with hip-hop. He began at 14 years old to write hip-hop music for the first time. After a feature on a compilation of underground artists, he founded in 1998, the crew Frères Lumière. With it, he launched the single être né quelque part. After high school, Youssoupha decided to put his music career on hold and go to university.
In 2003 he went back into the music business, on the project Bana Kin. Under this name he brings together Congolese rappers in the album Tendance, in which he appreciates and gives tribute to the culture and music of his native country. A year later he joined the collective 3ème Underground. Besides these endeavors, he also worked as a solo artist and signed with Bomayé music, the label of his associates Philo. In 2005 he released his first solo album, recommencement Eternel, which promptly became the Street Album of the Year nominee. He then signed with the label Hostile.
By the end of 2006 Mixtape avant l’album appeared. The critics were highly positive of Youssoupha and voted him one of the most promising talents of French rap. His debut album on Hostile was A chaque frère, released in early 2007. The working title of Negritude was of great interest to the general public, generating popularity quickly, and the album was a huge success. Following this, Youssoupha took a break at home, but was always present with various ongoing projects.
In early 2009 he came back topping the charts fast and furious with the song La vie est speed for the film Fast and Furious 4. Later that year, he released Sur les Chemins du retour, his second album. Check it.
Check it. Youssoupha: Biographie, vidéos, extraits audio, dates de concerts et forum autour du rappeur français: Official Site.
He was sixteen during the genocide. His mother was Hutu and his father was Tutsi. An armed group entered the family home, killing his parents and siblings. Cornelius was a powerless witness to the massacre, he was spared because he hid behind a sofa. He fled to Zaire after days of walking, and found refuge with a German couple who were friends of his parents.
In July1997, he left Germany to continue his studies in communications at the Concordia University of Montreal. A few months after arriving in Quebec, he made the acquaintance of Peter Gage and Martin Gardy (aka Gardy Fury), with whom he formed the group R’n’B O.N.E.
He dropped out of the band in January2001, to pursue his solo career.
In 2002, he participated in several projects. He composed and wrote the title Tonight for compiling R & B COCKTAIL 2 (Ghetto R & B / Sony Music ), and the title If only we loved the album Hip Hop Folies (Sony Music), featuring; Passi, Daddy Mory, K-mel, Sniper, Nâdiya, Sheraz, MBE, Nathalie Loriot, and The Weasel.
Cornelius is working with the Red Cross to raise awareness of Canadian children victimized by war.
Toujours dans la même année, il est sollicité pour écrire la chanson représentant la France au concours Eurovision, ce qu’il accepte. Il dévoile la chanson Vous c’est nous lors de l’émission spéciale, présentée par Michel Drucker et Claudy Siar, au cours de laquelle les téléspectateurs français élisent la jeune Virginie Pouchain, révélée chez Pascal Sevran, comme l’artiste qui ira défendre les chances françaises à Athènes. Mais ce titre ne semble pas convaincre les organisateurs du concours et Corneille est invité à revoir sa copie. Finalement, c’est un autre titre, Il était temps, composé en urgence, qui sera retenu. Malgré tout, le succès ne sera pas au rendez-vous, Virginie Pouchain n’arrivant qu’en vingt-deuxième position sur un total de vingt-quatre participants, à l’issue de la finale.
Le 9septembre2006, il épouse Sofia De Medeiros, sa compagne depuis cinq ans, dans une petite cérémonie au cœur des Laurentides, au nord de Montréal.
Après un album anglophone, il revient sur la scène française avec un quatrième album studio co-écrit avec son épouse, intitulé, tout simplement, Sans titre, sorti le 19octobre2009. Entre temps, le 9avril2010, il a eu un heureux évènement, la naissance d’un premier enfant, un petit garçon, Merrik. Check it.
Check it: Corneille.ca – Site officiel de l’artiste Corneille – The official site of the artist Corneille.
Die Antwoord performs music which incorporates many Zef elements and references. According to the band, Zef is a South African slang term that describes a unique South African style which is modern and trashy and also includes out-of-date, discarded cultural and style elements. Both Ninja and Yolandi have offered definitions of zef. Yolandi was quoted as saying, “It’s associated with people who soup their cars up and rock gold and shit. Zef is, you’re poor but you’re fancy. You’re poor but you’re sexy, you’ve got style.” Their lyrics are performed in Afrikaans, Xhosa, and English. Check it.
In what prosecutors called a campaign to strike fear by a madman, a local Citizen pleaded guilty on Friday and is going to do 25 years behind bars on charges that he fired more than a dozen rounds of gunshots over the course of several days during the annual fête along Ave. du Môquet last July.
