Meechy Darko

Meechy Darko first made waves back in 2012 as one of the Flatbush Zombies, a Brooklyn trio from the new school but lyrically focussed on the ghetto. His first solo album <em>Gothic Luxury </em>uses gothic themes to broach new themes in his music like institutional racism and the scourges of capitalism. 

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Meechy Darko from Flatbush Zombies steps out as a solo artist for the first time.

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 Move to the hectic beats and gentle flows of Swedish rapper Raghd. A selection of songs from her performance at Eurosonic 2024. 

Eurosonic 2024

An extract from the performance of Swedish rapper Raghd at Eurosonic 2024.

Raghd

Discover the three Afro-Ukrainian sisters of Fo Sho and their Slavic hip-hop in this session filmed on the fringes of the 2022 Europavox festival.

Europavox 2022

The three Afro-Ukrainian sisters of Fo Sho in session at the 2022 Europavox festival.

Fo Sho

MC Solaar, perhaps France’s most famous rapper, revisits his greatest hits accompanied by the New Big Band Project, the combination of the Orchestre national d’Île de France with jazz group The Ice Kream.
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Lune solaire
Qui sème le vent
La fin justifie les moyens
Sequelles
Obsolete
Quand le soleil devient froid
Gangster moderne
A temps partiels
Victimes de la mode
In god we trust
Inch'allah
La concubine de l'hémoglobine
Nouveau western
Armand est mort
La devise
Bouge de là
Bouge de là (reprise)
Les boys bandent
La musique adoucit les mœurs
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With Live Orchestra at the Paris Philharmonie

Perhaps France’s most famous rapper, revisits his greatest hits accompanied by the New Big Band Project, the combination of the Orchestre national d’Île de France with jazz group The Ice Kream.

MC Solaar

The No Guidnce phenomenon arrives at Eurosonic 2024, where these four Londoners unleash the full richness of their R'n'B-tinged vocal harmonies.

Eurosonic 2024 floats away on the vocal harmonies of No Guidnce.

No Guidnce

Up and coming rapper La Valentina has been building acclaim in France for her original melancholic vision. She comes to the club decked out with a collection of new compositions lying comfortably at the crossroads of languages and genres.

Dans le Club 2023

French born with Colombian roots, rapper La Valentina brings her Latin-tinged melancholic style to In the Club.

La Valentina

Last year, Lil Nas X drew the ire of  American pastor Greg Locke, who filmed himself reacting to the Montero music video. Lil Nas X broke onto the music scene with his country-rap hit Old Town Road in 2019, but this new song was different. It features inverted pentagrams, devilish cosplay, and a lapdance to Lucifer. What is the meaning of Lil Nas X's satanic twerking?

Lil Nas X

What is the meaning of Lil Nas X's satanic twerking?

Have you always wanted to go to a gig in a bathrobe? Well now is your chance: Hip-hop duo Uzi Freyja performs from the La Fontaine steam baths in Le Mans, France.

Hammam Session

Uzi Freyja

Remarkably, this is the first time Dans le Club has recieved a bona fide British rapper. Londoner Lord Apex crosses the Channel to perform tracks from his album The Good Fight.

British rap storms the club with a grand entrance from Lord Apex.

Lord Apex

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Europeans between the ages of 16-29 across 27 countries don’t necessarily have the same priorities. But politicians across the board are desperate to get them on side because their vote can have a significant impact in the European elections. In this episode, we look at the issues that matter to them, from war and health to education and the environment.

What do young Europeans want?

What kind of Europe do voters under 30 want to see? ARTE surveyed young people across Europe to find out what issues were most important to them.

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In Sicily, local people are committed to protecting their island's precious flora and fauna. In Palermo, Carmela Dacchille is passionate about the plants found in the city. Anna Giordano is waging a fierce battle against the powerful local hunting lobby. And Patrizia, daughter of the famous free diver Enzo Maiorca, is fighting against illegal fishing.

A trip to Sicily where local people are passionate about protecting the precious flora and fauna of the Mediterranean's largest island.

Sicily: Italy's Island Under the Sun

The creation of an independent Palestinian state seemed possible in 1993, but thirty years later it feels like a distant prospect. The two-state solution has yet to materialise, and recent years have been marred by political assassinations, violent uprisings, extremism, terrorist attacks, and police repression.

What Future for Palestine?

The creation of an independent Palestinian state seemed possible in 1993, but thirty years later it feels like a distant prospect.

Mapping the World

On 4 April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed, enshrining the creation of NATO just four years after the end of the Second World War. The primary objective of this military alliance of twelve European and North American countries was to prevent war in Europe and to counter the expansion of the Soviet bloc. Since its creation in the Cold War, the organisation has grown from 12 to 31 member states - including several former Eastern Bloc nations. Weakened by its turbulent history, NATO is facing a growing number of challenges: the difficulty of coordinating its members, the logistical obstacles in the event of an attack on European soil, and the threat, raised by Donald Trump, of an American withdrawal, at a time when European defence is almost entirely dependent on the United States.

A look back at the turbulent history of the military alliance facing unprecedented challenges in the face of Putin's Russia.

Putin, NATO, and Europe

Diwa is only 11 years old. She is one of the thousands of victims of a crime that is hardly reported on in Europe but which is causing havoc in the Philippines. She was raped by her parents, live on the internet, to satisfy the desires of foreign paedophiles who paid for the spectacle of her rape, giving instructions from a distance.

Philippines: Child Rape Online

Thousands of children in the Philippines have been abused, live on the internet. Report on a shocking crime.

ARTE Reportage

Conductors Andris Nelsons, Klaus Mäkelä, Riccardo Chailly and Petr Popelka conduct the four movements of Beethoven's 'Symphony No. 9' in succession across Europe. An epic concert celebrating the bicentenary of the creation of Beethoven's masterpiece.

Leipzig | Paris | Milan | Vienna

Andris Nelsons, Klaus Mäkelä, Riccardo Chailly and Petr Popelka conduct the four movements of the ‘Ninth’ in succession across Europe.

Beethoven: Symphony no. 9

Sweden is planning a green industrial revolution in the arctic north of the country. A huge battery producing facility is being built as well as a hydrogen powered steel works. But all this activity is not good news for the Sami people whose traditional way of life is under threat.

Sweden is planning a green industrial revolution in the arctic north of the country. 

Re: Sweden's Energy Revolution

Ancient Greek statues are white, pure and classical, just like the marble they are carved from. False. These statues were painted in fabulous bright colours. Archaeologists and art academics have known this for centuries so why does the white myth endure?

Ancient Greek Statues Were Not White

Gymnastics

From adopting and amending legislative proposals to deciding on the EU budget, the powers of European Parliament are wide-ranging. The MEPs elected for five-year terms partake in key forums for debate and decision-making, but also play a supervisory role over other European institutions.

A legislative, budgetary and supervisory institution at once – the European Parliament plays a fundamental role.

What is the role of the European Parliament?

In one day in April 1974, the Carnation Revolution in Portugal put an end to the Salazar dictatorship and five centuries of colonisation. This documentary is a blow-by-blow account of this momentous day that marked a turning point in the history of a nation and its people.

A blow-by-blow account of one momentous day that marked a turning point in the history of a nation and its people.

Portugal: April 1974

Guercœur, the knight and a freedom fighter, meets with an early death and ends up in heaven. But his soul is unable to rest and begs to be returned to earth. At the Opéra national du Rhin, Stéphane Degout plays the title role under the direction of Ingo Metzmacher, while Christof Loy’s staging explores the boundaries between the two worlds.

Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg

Allowed to return to earth just two years after his death, the knight Guercœur hopes to regain his freedom and be reunited with his love. But his hopes will be short-lived.

Albéric Magnard: Guercœur

While anti-war and pro-Palestine protests heat up across university campuses around the world; att this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, which takes place in the Swedish city of Malmö on Saturday, the Palestinian flag will be notably absent as boycott campaigns swirl over Israel’s participation. In this episode of ARTE Europe Weekly, we look at how camp culture and geopolitics have always gone hand-in-hand at Eurovision.

The globally televised song contest Eurovision insists it’s not political. But the most recent chapter in a decades-long history of political tension behind the event’s glitzy backdrop suggests a different story.

Israel’s war on Gaza takes centre stage at Eurovision

Post punk is alive and kicking- and as the Stranglers prove, its legacy is intact. The British band headlines an exceptional concert at Ground Control in Paris, where they present tracks from their 18th studio album Dark Matters.

Ground Control

Guildford post-punk custodians The Stranglers put on a stunning set at Ground Control in Paris. 

The Stranglers

For the first time in 2020, around 100,000 Italians left big cities in the north of the country for modest towns in the south, in search of a new life. In Calabria, where the mafia and unemployment reign supreme, we follow Angelo, Rocco, Francesco and Nunzia – who have all decided to reinvent themselves by moving back to their hometowns.

Starting a new life in southern Italy

For the first time in 2020, around 100,000 Italians left wealthy cities in the north for poorer towns in the south of the country.

Re: Return to Calabria

In 2001, Jimmy Wales published Hello World, the first article on Wikipedia, inviting people to participate in an encyclopaedic project. Twenty years later, Wikipedia touches all areas of our daily lives and with over 50 million articles, it is the largest encyclopaedia of all time. Wikipedia opened with a promise: to radically democratise the production of knowledge, monopolised for millennia by the elites. Anyone can collaborate on the platform, regardless of education level or social background. But is Wikipedia really a utopia come true?
This documentary delves into the heart of the Wikipedia project by interviewing founder Jimmy Wales, prominent academics and the anonymous contributors from around the world without whom the project would not exist, the Wikipedians themselves.

In 2001, Jimmy Wales published Hello World, the first article on Wikipedia, inviting people to participate in an encyclopaedic project. Twenty years later, Wikipedia touches all areas of our daily lives and with over 50 million articles, it is the largest encyclopaedia of all time.

Wikipedia and the Democratisation of Knowledge

On 1 May 2004, the European Union welcomed ten new members, including eight countries from Central and Eastern Europe. This massive enlargement changed overnight the dynamics of the EU. Twenty years on, how has this enlargement in the East shaped the new member states and the EU as a whole?

EU enlargement into eastern Europe was a major geopolitical moment in 2004. A focus on the European Union's biggest decision and its consequences.

EU Enlargement: Twenty Years On

The European Union began in 1952 as the European Coal and Steel Community and has continued to expand ever since, particularly with the eastward enlargement in 2004. Since the war in Ukraine, the centre of the EU seems to be shifting eastwards as countries in central and eastern Europe become more influential players within the EU.

European Union: Turning Eastwards?

The foundations of the Philharmonie de Paris better be stable as they take the full impact of a concert by Behemoth, Poland's most famous metal band. As much a visual shock as an aural one, in the purest metal tradition.

Philharmonie de Paris

These Polish metal giants storm the Philharmonie de Paris.

Behemoth

In 1988, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl travelled to the GDR for a secret visit to several East German cities. This is the story of how the former West-German leader outwitted the Stasi and was able to meet ordinary GDR citizens in at times absurd situations.

The German Chancellor in the GDR

In 1988, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl travelled to the GDR for a secret visit to several East German cities. 

When Helmut Kohl Fooled the Stasi

The planet's jet streams are being affected by rising temperatures in the Arctic. These streams are part of a wind system that circulates at high altitude around the Earth, and they have an influence on extreme weather events. Changes in them are bad news for life on Earth.

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