“Rappers are annoying the National Rally”. Akhenaton, Fianso, Zola, Soso Maness, Seth Gueko, Alkapote… around twenty artists posed on the song “No pasaran” (They will not pass in Spanish) against the National Rally, the big winner of the first round of the French legislative elections.
“Just after the European elections we said to ourselves that we were not going to stay like this when the other (President Emmanuel Macron) has dissolved, producer Ramdane Touhami tells Le Parisien. “Kore knows all the rappers, from all generations, and the idea was to bring them together.”
The Bardella plague, the Mélenchon cholera or a more consensual path?
The project, initiated by DJ Kore, does not hold back. The title of the song is a reference to the Spanish slogan against the Franco dictatorship in the 1930s, and the rappers chain together virulent verses against the RN, Jordan Bardella or the Le Pen family.
“Finger in the air for the ciste-ra/CNews in the blind spot/Shakes and tremors/Fuck the gathering”, for example intones Fianso at the very beginning of the song, and later adds: “Jordan, you’re dead, Jordan you’re dead”.
The producer explains to Le Parisien: “When we say Jordan, you’re dead, Jordan, you’re deadit is a reference to the moment when Cédric Doumbé, the MMA champion won his match against Jordan Zebo and the whole stadium, including Mbappé, had chanted Jordan, you are dead. If we don’t have the reference, we could believe that we are threatening Jordan Bardella, but we can justify ourselves. The goal was to play with the limits and make references.”
Each rapper wrote his own lyrics and is therefore responsible for them.
“I participated in this piece and it is very important to me, because I grew up in the heritage of a very sharp, committed French rap that inspired me a lot,” Fianso explains to Le Parisien. “Culture has its say and has a vocation to express itself on this type of subject. I am from the generation where rap is not dissociated from the message.”
The title mainly calls for voting in the second round of the legislative elections this Sunday, June 7. “It’s a fairly direct political song. We’re here so that kids stop thinking that Jordan Bardella is a cool guy. And we’re here to tell them that in rap, we don’t like him, now they have the information. But we expect a counterattack from the fascists who are very good at PR,” adds Ramdane Touhami.
The song was released this Monday, July 1st at 11:45 p.m., all funds generated will be donated to the Abbé Pierre Foundation. A “Youth pisses off the National Front” 2.0.
