Concrete Feeling
“A story of committed hip-hop”
Concrete Feeling tells the story of French hip-hop. It’s about rap as social comment and how French hip-hop climbed the charts to become the most popular music in France.
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Concrete Feeling tells the story of French hip-hop. It’s about rap as social comment and how French hip-hop climbed the charts to become the most popular music in France.
- Ep 1
1.Intro
08-04-201960mComing out of France’s suburban ghetto, the first French hip-hop artists take the country by storm in 1990. Names like Assassin, NTL and IAM were politically engaged and ready to s...
- Ep 2
2.On Mission
08-04-201960mThe mainly BAME neighbourhoods of Paris were places mainstream media didn't go and didn't talk about. So the local rapper's became the CNN of their communities. They rapped about u...
- Ep 3
3.Authenticity [Part I]
08-04-201960mRap took off: no longer a genre on the fringes of acceptability or even on the fringes of what is considered music: it was everywhere. It was on TV, and in film, and it stormed the...
- Ep 4
4.Each to Their Own Gang
08-04-201960mThe rapper is a social animal. He moves in groups and collectives, like Time Bomb or Beat 2 Boul. They're like famillies, only with a message and a vision. And maybe that family is...
- Ep 5
5.Interlude [Police]
08-04-201960mEvery generation of rapper in France tackles the diffcult and sometimes violent relationship between the police and urban French youth. And in the 90s, it became urgent after 17-ye...
- Ep 6
6.Serious Business
08-04-201960mSome rappers aren't content to work for somebody else. They intend to decide for themselves on their own terms rather than feel controlled by the record industry. They want to stay...
- Ep 7
7.We're the First
08-04-201960mIn 1996, after a law was passed demanding that 40 percent of the music played on French radio be French, the radio station Skyrock became THE station to go to to listen to rap, and...
- Ep 8
8.Authenticity [Part II]
08-04-201960mRap has grown mainstream; and in doing so, has it lost its soul? And which rap has value, which one is the authentic rap? There's socially conscious rap, gangsta rap, protest rap a...
- Ep 9
9.Everything Burns
08-04-201960m2005. In the aftermath of the biggest riots in France since May 68, the political class has to find the culprit. It's not the unemployment, not the failure of urban policies for th...
- Ep 10
10.Outro
08-04-201960mFrench rap may not have achieved the social changes it wanted, but it is now a firm favourite on the airwaves. This is a cultural revolution: rap is chanson francaise.
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