Despite his national fame and his dozens of certifications, Jul's strength is to have remained a simple guy, an everyman. But becoming the alter ego of J is no easy feat. The participants in the first lookalike competition of the famous rapper, organized yesterday by the down jacket and cap brand Gertrude, in its boutique on rue Paradis (1st), realized this.
“Matrix” glasses on their noses, gold and platinum socks and fitted Dortmund tracksuits, around ten competitors tried to slip into the skin of the UFO and win the down jacket promised to the winner.
“We just didn’t dare to tap dance because of the rain”
A few posters stuck around the store during the week, widely relayed on social networks, were enough to attract a small crowd to this “friendly event that celebrates Marseille culture“, according to the organizers. And from 3 p.m., the first UFOs land in front of the store. “We are here for the madnesssays Hugo, a young man from Cours Julien with a neat blonde lock. Everyone tells me I look like him and I was born in 1990 like him. So I was automatically registered for the competition. But it's not going to be simple, there's some planning.“
It must be said that the Jul team is there. Some relied on the physical resemblance, others on a carefully studied slide-tracksuit-cap panoply or on a perfect knowledge of the J's discography.The Jul team is diverse, so we came to bring a little diversity to the competitionexplain Kady and Keya, high school students, who drew a growing beard in pencil to look like their idol. DP tracksuit, J cap, mirrored glasses, we did everything to be as close as possible to the J. We just didn't dare to wear tap shoes because of the rain.“
“I love Jul more than my mother”
As the first competitors are called before the jury, the pressure increases a notch. In front of Le Y (official lookalike of Jul on the networks), the artist Emmanuelle Luciano and the rapper of 13 Organisé Elams, the participants must answer a mini-quiz on Jul's career, before covering one of his titles .
“How are you saaaangs?“, launches Hugo into the microphone, before starting So the area and create a little collective hysteria in the store. The jury salutes the performance when Sébastien, a carbon copy of a rapper from Saint-Jean-du-Désert, introduces himself. “Since high school, everyone has taken me for Jul. I pushed it a bit by having fun on the networks and today, 86,000 people follow me on TikTok, where I make videos on the J“, confides the 28-year-old young man, originally from Sorgues and who himself put the gold and platinum logo on his Decathlon tracksuit. “I even created a crowd when I went to the Jul store in Les Terrasses. Jul is my life.“
J culture questions are therefore just a formality for Seb. At ease on the mic, he confesses to the crowd “love Jul more than (at) mother” before singing I forget everythingtaken up by the entire store. He ultimately won the competition, tied with Rico who was acclaimed for his physical resemblance. All the competitors come together on a makeshift stage to resume Organized band and close this event, where only the presence of the real Jul will have been missing. And messed up the area!
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