While the famous Belgian rapper Damso had announced the release of his next and final album for May 2025, “J’ai menti” has been available since November 15. This fifth album, sometimes experimental in color, multiplies collaborations, including one with his accomplice Angèle.
Four years after the release of “QALF”, Damso is back with a fifth album. A nice surprise for his fans – invited to listen to him in preview at the headquarters of the Communist Party in Paris – since the 32-year-old Belgian rapper had sworn last year that he wanted to take a break and that his next opus, announced as the last of his career, would not be released until May 2025.
The artist who has reigned over French-speaking rap for ten years then indicated that he had the impression of having covered the whole question: the hit songs, the collaborations, the tours, the gold, platinum, diamond, double diamond (one million copies sold). “I want to discover other passions, to do design, furniture,” he recently told the newspaper Le Monde.
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The right to talk about everything
This new album, available since November 15 and aptly named “J’ai menti”, surprises with its experimental side, with for example the telescoping of African percussion, a string section and techno or elsewhere southern electro. African. There we find renowned guests and accomplices from the very beginning: his big brother Michkavie who made him want to rap, the Congolese rapper and lyricist Kalash Criminel and even Angèle, with whom he shares a song entitled “Try Everything” .
The two Belgian artists had already sung together on several occasions, notably on the title “Démons” in 2021, but this collaboration between Angèle, a figure of feminism since her famous song “Balance ton quoi”, and the rapper whose texts are regularly taxed from sexist to surprising.
“Talking about sex does not mean being sexist,” Damso defended himself on social networks in 2018. The artist claims the right to talk about everything, including prostitution, incest, pedophilia, racism or suicide. The texts are sometimes crude, but they also relate the state of our world.
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Unless he’s lying again, his next and final album before he moves on should still be released in May 2025. While waiting for this announced end, there’s something to eat between now and then with the eleven titles of “I lied”.
Radio subject: Yves Zahno
Adaptation web: ld/aq
Damso, “I lied” (Thirty-four centimes). Released November 15, 2024.
