Twenty French rappers have announced the release of a joint single against the far right.
Entitled “No Pasaran”, it will be accompanied by a clip which will be online this Monday, July 1st from 11:45 p.m.
Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella and Eric Zemmour appear in an extract already available.
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They wasted no time. On the evening of the first round of the legislative elections, which placed the National Rally in the lead in the votes on Sunday evening, around twenty French rappers announced the release of a joint single entitled “No Pasaran.”The fight has only just begun“, announces Sofiane Zeramani, alias Fianso, in the story of his Instagram account, followed by a million subscribers.
In an extract from the video which will be online this Monday, July 1 at 11:45 p.m., we can see images of far-right demonstrations, of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella or even of Eric Zemmour when he received an egg on the head during a campaign trip in 2022. The title of the song refers to the slogan chanted by the Spanish Republicans against Franco’s fascist regime.
They want to light the fire? We put out their flame in the ballot boxes
Seth Gueko
Apart from Fianso, this initiative brings together some of the biggest names in the hip-hop scene made in France. Among them, the leader of the Marseille group IAM, Akhenaton. “Unity is our strength“, he wrote on Instagram. “Today is a round of voting but these ideas are lingering in the media and political space, from the PS to the RN via LR and especially Ensemble!“, he believes.
“Looping against the extreme right“, writes Ile-de-France resident Seth Gueko. “They want to light the fire? Their flame is extinguished at the ballot boxes. Only one instruction: vote against Marine and Jordan“, he says. Among the other rappers involved in this project are also ISK, Zola, Pit Baccardi, Cokein, Ashe 22, UZI, RK, Alkpote, Kore, Nahir, Gueko, Demi portion, Soso Maness, Decimo, Zed, Costa, Relo, Kerchak and Mac.
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Before the first round, several rappers have already called on their audience to go to the polls.The bulletins are amnesiac. That means that there are many people who do not know the history, the roots of what the National Front is.“, declared Soprano, the ex-coach of “The Voice”, on TF1. On Instagram, the Toulousain Oli, half of the duo BigFlo and Oli, called for a blockade against the RN which “feeds division in our beautiful country”.
