The 45-year-old singer has just released his 9th studio album. Six months after “Freedom”, Soprano presents “Emancipation” as the second part of a trilogy. The Marseillais of Comorian origin, who is teeming with projects, had promised a return to rap. And he keeps his word with this 10-track opus.
From the first single “Tour du monde”, we can clearly hear that the Marseillais remains faithful to its humanist, unifying spirit. This hit has everything of an anthem designed to make stadiums dance. The rhythm is energetic, the lyrics benevolent, as if the singer wanted to rekindle the flame of the spirit of the 1998 Football World Cup, where we believed in a “black and white” communion.
A piece made for concerts
And yet this inaugural title contrasts with the rest of the album.
because this opus, presented as the second part of a trilogy, marks a return to Soprano’s rap sources. It must be said that the previous album, Freedom, released last summer, did not meet with the public: 41,000 sales, far from the scores of its predecessors.
So the 45-year-old singer of Comorian origin returned to the studio. He had also announced it on his social networks: “you want rap, half of the album is that”.
Soprano (Saïd M’Roumbaba in the civil registry) proves this in particular with duets recorded with Limsa d’Aulnay (“Si tu sais”), his comrades from the group PSY 4 of the rhyme Alonzo (“We are the champ”) and Vincenzo (“Ghostrider”), or even the titles with PLK (“Faux paradis”) and Red K and Achim (“Balles tailor”).
The one who sings his “Gamberge d’Ancien” proves that he has lost none of his flow, and his writing qualities. Soprano knows how to rap, he has the flow without demeaning women or giving in to gangsta rap imagery, even when he talks about the lack of prospects for the children of Marseille and drug trafficking as a horizon.
Soprano may want to remain positive despite everything. He can only deplore the misfortunes which currently overwhelm the world, as well as the rise of racism. In “Bulles on Measure”, he talks about cotton fields and Nazi songs, denounces Abbé Pierre and Depardieu. But he ends this album with a message of hope and resilience: “Whatever happens, it will be okay”, a reference to his father, very religious, who died in 2020 from Covid in the Comorres and who transmitted to him this attitude of resilience.
Soprano is teeming with projects. He has already announced to his fans all his plans for the years to come: he plans to release two albums per year, organize three big tours, reform the PSY 4 de la Rime, plan a big concert at the Champ-de-Mars for his 50th birthday before retiring in 2030.
The favorite personality of 7-14 year olds will host the evening of December 31 on TF1 from the Château de Chantilly.
And he’s going on tour again next March: the 4 dates in December 2025 at the Accor Arena in Paris are already sold out, with some 100,000 tickets sold out in 24 hours!
