“What makes wise men walk? » The answers are in this title from the album of the same name released thirty years ago: “The passion for rap”, “the passion for sound”, “to work (ses) rimes, (ses) basses…” as the Sages Poètes de la rue sang in 1995. It is also a question of walking “for glory”. But at the time, the three boys were far from it and Boulogne-Billancourt was not yet one of the bastions of rap that it had become, with the inevitable Ali and Booba, but also Salif and LIM, until the more current, Tuerie or Tissmey.
When brothers Jean-François and Jean-Jacques Kodjo — alias Melopheelo and Zoxea — formed with their friend Daniel Lakoué — Dany Dan — the trio of Sages Po’, at the dawn of the 1990s, they started from scratch. “There was absolutely nothing there,” recalls the last man. No real infrastructure, no role models to ask for advice, or even the certainty that a career is possible.
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