The album “95200” was released in 1994. This is no small thing: this record is one of the milestones in the history of French rap. And the group that created it, Ministère AMER, is coming to celebrate this anniversary with us this Wednesday.
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Published on 6/10/2024 at 8:54 p.m.
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CIt’s a time that those under 30 cannot experience. Necessarily. At that time, French rap had a completely different status than that of a heavyweight in the music industry that it has acquired today. At that time, a bit like the “big four” of thrash metal, there were already the greats of the rhyme that kills and the verb that happily tags right-thinking: IAM, NTM, Assassin …As well as the AMER Ministry Initiated at the end of the 80s by two high school friends, Gilles Duarte, better known – and not only in Big Heads – under the pseudonym Stomy Bugsy, and Passi Balende, aka… Passi. They are quickly joined by Patrick Fouchan, DJ Ghetch or even L’Homme de Main for close friends, responsible for sick productions like The Devil’s Bells et Didn’t come as a tourist – either real bangers before we talk about bangers – or even Flirting with murdera crazy, excessive piece, which revolves around a crazy heavy metal guitar riff (by Bernard Cely).
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