Ministère AMER " 95200" (1994)If I had to keep a French rap album, I think that's " 95200 " that I would choose (yeah " Designed To Last "La Clique is an EP I'm cheating ... what?). Sarcelles Second album after" Why so much hate? "(1992) best known for the mess caused by the provocative" Brigitte Woman Cop "and about his decidedly pro-black as for its musical qualities (though only for Moda ...), despite successful pieces . After starting alongside Moda party from making records with Dan (the store Tikaret) Stomy Passi and continued on their merry way quietly, not blending with the rest of their colleagues (but for an artist - solo Stomy elsewhere Kenzy with reinforcements - on the "BO" La Haine ). Ministère AMER
AMS Production / Musidisc
1. Prelude In Wake ( feat. Hamed Daye)
2. Faster than bullets
3. A Summer In The City
4. Brigitte Woman 2 ... ( feat. Kay-Cee)
5. Rates The Fans The Rascals ( feat. Assia)
6. Paradise ( feat. Kay-Cee)
7. I had a dream
8. Autopsy ( feat. Doc Gyneco)
9. Flirt With Murder
10. The Bells Of The Devil ( feat. Hamed Daye)
11. Chapter II
Act 20 12. Tourists not Come In ( feat. Hamed Daye)
13. Niggers Of The Underworld ( feat. Kay-Cee)
at that time, the synthesis is made in France of what was done better in recent years across the Atlantic: the gangsta side of NWA (why not make the connection between "100 Miles And Running "and" outrun The Balls "), the militant pro-black Public Enemy and the provocation of an Ice Cube (" Black Corea "finds some echo in" I had a dream "). A small excerpt from American Me (" Anatomy"), large samples that would not refuse funk DJ Slip CMW (which is always one good in his pocket ... kangaroo), we could have plunged into the pale imitation of the Yankees ...
No, " 95200" is a real album very French, even though franchouillard. The interlude " A Summer In The City " and his anthology of bird names (listen to it 14 years is limited ejaculatory, loop all the way into the house, daron beginning to worry and heard " You're 70 years you cry, you cry like your daughter when the slut deflowered j'l'ai "...) smells of France Julien Courbet, references to junkies major boulevards, RSP, politicians The Times (of which some are still rampant, a little angry today unfortunately become caliph instead of the Caliph), racism, sounds and smells, the flames ... No doubt we are in the suburbs.
" 95200" is the first major rap record on the outskirts on the city and what our listeners' rap tess "may say today, the two oddballs we saw on stage with Johnny Halliday (" Hiiiiip Hoooooooop! Hiiiiip Hooooooop! ") paved the way for a lot of people. For that alone, this album is one of the major discs of French rap, and regardless of whether Passi has exchanged his flow against a sniff of businessman and a seat on the board of Star Academy, and has Stomy (among others) played the feeble light in "Zero 3": they have made this record.
Surprisingly, no real production level credit. It is stupid to not have exactly what that product because 14 years later, it remains extremely strong and serious. You navigate between aggression and minimalist funk-soul prods unstoppable, by paying the luxury to remain consistent in being versatile enough yet. I am always surprised that minimizes the production quality of this album or music except that it was.
Replace a beat by a sound receiver of the gun and shot ("Faster than The Balls "), swinging a solo electric guitar completely furious over 6 minutes (" I Flirt With Murder ") or ask" A Summer In The City "no real beat (at a time when we was just emerging from overproduction rhythm), and it was still something quite new.
Whenever I come across a piece of Passi recent years, I wonder how he could get there. I criticize not necessarily its marketing efforts nor his choice of music (although it would probably say) but more the gap between his flow today (even more predictable than that of Sister Hazel) and that he could pose in 1994. Ok, it's never been a Daddy Lord C, nor Ill., or even an MC first zone but at least, despite its approximations, we had a guy with minimal presence and whose verses are followed without resembling . The bare minimum you ask me ...
On Missile Mysto was the freshness, the lack of calculation in nature. He managed an exercise that seems superhuman today (yeah I know, I'm in the Cabrellis even more than usual): succeed and want to combine speech. Do not twist your ass to shit right, a guy who gets off on the mic is still much nicer to listen than any tench taking a posture [ choose a suitable note: chav, sensitive, political, funny, gangster, offbeat bandana nerd, acoustic, fashion, dirty south, g-funk, crunk, fluorescent - non-exhaustive list ]. Gilles Duarte has never been a great lyricist but he had enough good ideas to compensate for this fact: no complex, no pressure from the microcosm hiphopcryte and shot attempts. What I miss the guys who try things.
is also fun to see those same guys who dared to take risks both in substance and form have become those responsible for the standardization of rap a few years later with the sector. By presenting an economic model to rap independent and profitable, Kenzy and his cronies have opened Pandora's box. We can now make money, lots of money (real or fantasized) thanks to rap and blow, money replaces the fun. A classical evolution in the light of the history of music but is nonetheless every time a heart-breaking.
14 years after my first listen of " 95200 " I continue to be completely absorbed by the world Stomy B. and Passi, every time I rediscover the album enjoying a new detail each time, funny to me their irreverence, enjoying being immersed in their world (language, humor - ah the famous interlude hidden " Rates The Fans The Rascals " - claims ...). And they are careful not to make another album, because we would be tempted to say "Uh cut there ... there was a feedback? . Others seem to attempt the comeback but they are careful not to go into the studio together even if their sum was always significantly greater than their individual value. A new department? No thank you, I have more faith in politics ...
