{"id":1522,"date":"2023-04-13T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2023-09-27T11:12:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T18:12:37","slug":"la-naissance-du-hip-hop-mc-solaars-revolutionary-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2023\/04\/13\/la-naissance-du-hip-hop-mc-solaars-revolutionary-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"La Naissance du Hip Hop – MC Solaar\u2019s Revolutionary Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When most people think of Hip Hop as a genre or as a cultural movement, they (rightly) think of New York City. This subculture was born in the Black community of the South Bronx, and quickly spread to other parts of the city, then the country, and within a few years, Hip Hop was iterated in some form almost everywhere in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five are often credited as the among the first artists whose music was recognised as “Hip Hop”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

France is no exception to this – rather, it is currently the second largest consumer of Hip Hop after the USA. In 1984, the world\u2019s first Hip Hop television show aired on France\u2019s largest channel, TF1. However, though France had been one of the first countries outside of the USA to embrace the American movement, it was about 20 years after the genesis of Hip Hop in the Bronx during the early 70s before Hip Hop as a cultural movement really began to take on a distinct French form. When it finally did, it was largely because of one man pioneering the movement: the legendary MC Solaar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The vinyl cover of MC Solaar’s 1990 single, “Bouge de l\u00e0”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1969 in Dakar, Senegal, Claude M\u2019Barali moved to a southern suburb of Paris with his family as a baby. At age 12 he lived in Cairo with an uncle for 9 months where his interest in the Universal Zulu Nation and Afrika Bambaataa was born. After his undergraduate studies in languages, and his postgraduate studies in Philosophy, he released Bouge de l\u00e0<\/em>, sampling Cymnade\u2019s song The Message<\/em> in 1990 and it was a huge success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


In 1991, he released his debut album, Qui s\u00e8me le vent r\u00e9colte le tempo<\/em> (“He who sows the wind reaps the tempo”), and it was hugely successful, also. He toured around Eastern Europe, as well as twelve different countries in West Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The album cover for MC Solaar’s 1991 debut album, “Qui s\u00e8me le vent r\u00e9colte le tempo”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

MC Solaar is a legend as a French musician in general, though of course primarily as a Hip Hop artist, and he is responsible for the shape the French music industry has come to take on today. While it is impossible to deny the importance of the tradition of La chanson fran\u00e7aise<\/em>, we must also acknowledge the staggering contribution of French and francophone artists from racialised, and generally marginalised backgrounds. Go listen to Caroline<\/a>, Bouge de l\u00e0<\/a>, <\/em>and Paradisiaque<\/a><\/em> and marvel at this man\u2019s linguistic genius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When most people think of Hip Hop as a genre or as a cultural movement, they (rightly) think of New York City. This subculture was born in the Black community of the South Bronx, and quickly spread to other parts of the city, then the country, and within a few years, Hip Hop was iterated … <\/p>\n

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