Hip-Hop | ARTE

Hiphop | ARTE

In the 1970s, hip-hop music first made its appearance in US neighborhoods marked by violence and poverty, particularly in New York. Urban dance also emerged along with this revolution, driven by funk and disco loops. From battles to shows, discover the many variations that continue to drive this ever-changing cultural movement.

An encounter with the many forms of urban dance that exist within the wider hip-hop cultural movement.

Urban Dance

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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

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

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

Hip-hop duo Uzi Freyja performs from the La Fontaine steam baths in Le Mans, France.

Uzi Freyja

How did Tupac go from being gangster king to the paragon of the underdog? TAPE tells the story.

Tupac

TAPE

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.
Programme
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
Caroline

France’s most famous rapper revisits his greatest hits accompanied by the Orchestre national d’Île de France with jazz group The Ice Kream.

MC Solaar

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A new generation of soul guaranteed to move hearts and bodies: These artists are reinventing the timeless spirit of soul with a contemporary freshness. A fusion of tradition and modernity that embraces you in its magnetic embrace as you discover a resolutely modern soul universe.

Music to seduce the world

A new soul generation moving hearts and bodies with striking contemporary relevance.

Modern Soul

Jazz

Electronic

World

Pop & Rock

Performing Arts

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Somewhere between dark trap and dreamy RnB, Destroy Lonely fascinates with his deep lyrics and haunting vocals. The embodiment of independence and creative freedom, the American rapper takes his community on a unique journey to the heart of his art, shaking up codes and exploring new horizons.

splash! Festival 2024

An icon of undergroud music, Destroy Lonely is calling on the splash! 2024 stage to reinvent rap.

Destroy Lonely

Sometimes all it takes is one song to become famous overnight. Sexxy Red experienced that with ‘Pound Town’, a track that earned her a lot of love and a fair amount of dislike. Hostility hasn't deterred the rapper, quite the contrary: true to her image as a ‘ghetto diva’, the American rapper says out loud what others dare not think.

With rapper Sexxy Red, the deep south of the United States comes to Splash! 2024.

Sexyy Red

Lithuania's RnB sensation Free Finga already had a brush with fame as a child pop star in his home country. He returned to music in adulthood as a way of working through personal dramas with a modern, RnB sound brimming with catchy hooks and social angst. 

Europavox Sessions 2023

Lithuania's Free Finga brings his thoroughly modern RnB sound to Europavox.

Free Finga

Maria José Llergo is one of a wave of Spanish artists giving flamenco a new lease of life. She will be presenting ULTRABELLEZA, her first full-length album, at the Bilbao BBK Live Festival.

Bilbao BBK Live Festival 2024

Maria José Llergo combines flamenco and hip-hop for the Bilbao BBK Live Festival.

Maria José Llergo

A heartfelt performance from Stivijoes at the Bilbao BBK Live Festival. An artist operating in the hinterland between rap and pop.

Bilbao welcomes this sensitive artist, working somewhere between rap and pop.

Stivijoes

Fugees singer Lauryn Hill gave a concert in the Vatican in 2003. But why has it been so hushed up?

Lauryn Hill

Dry your eyes mate, it's the return of Mike Skinner and his mighty lyrical 2-step project The Streets. A set at Elbjazz 2024 filled with everyman tales of British life over the past 20 years.

Elbjazz Festival 2024

Mike Skinner returns to the stage with his back catalogue of tales from middle England.

The Streets

Journeys Through Music welcomes a special guest: Ana Tijoux, one of the biggest names in Spanish-language rap. The Franco-Chilean musician will be performing tracks from her fifth album, Vida.

Journeys Through Music

Journeys Through Music invite one of the biggest names in Spanish-language rap to the Cabaret Sauvage in Paris.

Ana Tijoux

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

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

No Guidnce

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

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

Raghd

Swiss rapper Nathalie Froehlich knows her way around an aggressive beat and pulls no punches in her full-on performances. The stage at Eurosonic is no exception; prepare for a KO. 

Switzerland's angriest female rapper arrives at Eurosonic.

Nathalie Froehlich

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

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.

Provocative, creative, and with an unhealthy interest in vomit, Tyler, the Creator breaks the mould of US rap. But did he really eat that cockroach? TAPE tells all.

Tyler, the Creator

Provocative, an unhealthy interest in vomit, Tyler, the Creator breaks the mould of US rap. But did he really eat that cockroach? TAPE tells all.

MIA gained international recognition in 2007 thanks to Paper Planes. She continues to lobby for a world without walls, and without borders, through her songs.

MIA continues to lobby for a world without walls, and without borders, through her songs

Booba has a reputation as the bad boy of French rap from the streets, but is it really true?

Booba

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How did Snoop Dogg change from being American public enemy no. 1 to the public’s favourite rapper. TAPE rewinds the life of a genius of personal branding.

Snoop Dogg

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?

Pharrell Williams manages to combine coolness and super-geekdom à la Star Trek. But how?

Pharrell Williams

Pharrell Williams manages to combine coolness and super-geekdom. But how?

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French rap duo PNL’s  music video for their track ‘Au DD’ saw the twosome sitting on top of the Eiffel Tower. But were they really there? Internet conspiracies abound.