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	NPR : French Rap Musicians Blamed for Violence
		French artist Mino raps about hard economic times: "Knocked out by the welfare check, sitting on a bench, paid to do nothing, that is the fruit of my times..."
		Morning Edition, December 14, 2005 · Two hundred members of the French parliament are calling for legal action against several rap musicians for allegedly inciting violence and racism in last month's suburban riots.
		Matteo Ferran, part owner of the record label Street Skillz, says suggesting rap is to blame for the riots is a case of shooting the messenger.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5052650 (410 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > French rap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Most French hip hop artists come from poor suburbs of Paris, Strasbourg, Toulouse or Marseille.
		Unlike the fls living in urban ghettos in the United States, where hip hop began, France has had a much wider social safety net, meaning that poverty was rarely as extreme in France's North and West African immigrant communities (where most of the artists come from) as in African American ghettos.
		Due to the former French rule and the colonial, Africans immigrants moved to France for education or better life.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/fr/French_rap (278 words)

	Indie Music Features on CLUAS - French Letter: Rap in France
		Rap in France and its constructive role in French society...
		Given that the issue of women's rights is regularly used by both liberals and conservatives as a stick with which to beat the Islamic and African communities, French rap and R n'B presents an image of assertive and confident young ethnic women which you won't be seeing in any Sean Paul or 50 Cent video.
		In the meantime, French urban music is playing a crucial role in giving a voice to those on the margins of this increasingly troubled country.
	www.cluas.com /music/features/french-letter-rap-in-france.htm (652 words)

	Poplicks.com: THE RAP ON FRENCH RIOTS
		Throughout coverage of the French rioting, I've noted that reporters and commentators alike have frequently made mention of how these mostly youth of color outside Paris are cloaked (literally and figuratively) in signifiers that we've come to associate with young, urban anger.
		When rap first came to France, American rappers dominated the scene, but now the suburban immigrant neighborhoods have produced their own stars in their own language.
		French rap lyrics today are like the American gangsta lyrics of about five or 10 years ago, when it was more common to fantasize about cop killings and gang rape.
	poplicks.com /2005/11/rap-on-french-riots.html (1150 words)

	Rappers face rap for riots: World: News: News24
		Paris - Seven French rap outfits could face legal action after a complaint lodged by about 200 parliamentarians on Wednesday, accusing them of helping to provoke the country's recent riots through their lyrics.
		In a petition co-signed by 152 deputies and 49 senators, the deputy drew the attention of justice minister Pascal Clement to seven rap singers and bands whom he accused of inciting racism and hatred.
		French rap artists have been using hip-hop music as a medium to protest about conditions in France's tough suburbs since the early 1980s.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1839472,00.html (333 words)

	French Rap's Bad Rap
		French rap has been talking about rising inequality, the frustration in the banlieues (suburbs), police corruption and the impermeability of French society for immigrants and their children for more than a decade.
		You could argue that the French language, whose subtle malleability makes it ideal for the precipitous, multilayered wordplay of rappers, is being refreshed, updated, internationalized and broadcast to the world through French rap.
		French rap is in no small part a creation of the French-for-the-French Gallic nationalists.
	p076.ezboard.com /fpoliticalpalacefrm69.showMessage?topicID=96.topic (641 words)

	In France, Anthems of Alienation
		French commentators have alternately labeled rap an incitement to violence or an unheeded warning in the wilderness.
		And rap is often the principal moving force," wrote Le Monde, the staid French daily.
		Rap "describes the customs and habits of the slums and reflects the contradictions of youth raised in a consumer society who don't have the keys to it."
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/23/AR2005112302232_pf.html (1192 words)

	publish.nyc.indymedia.org \| French Rappers are the “Loudspeakers” of the Ghetto (Indypendent)
		For the past 10 years, French rappers have been the “loudspeakers” (as Joey Starr, of NTM puts it) of the banlieue: the suburbs where projects house immigrants, who were brought to France as a cheap labor force after World War Two, and their descendants.
		French rap conveys the total marginalization of those who live in the banlieue – literally “the place that is subject to the law (of the city)” – which is reinforced through the geographical isolation of the projects.
		Recently, French newspapers such as Le Monde and Libération, have been printing rap lyrics, now seen as prophetic: “There had better not be a police brutality or the city will explode / The projects are a time bomb...” is one such example from 113.
	nyc.indymedia.org /en/2005/12/61641.html (966 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| French rappers' prophecies come true
		It is undeniable that some of the lyrics of French rap songs - as in America - are shocking to the conservative-minded.
		The French language, with its repeated end of word inflections, is widely recognised as lending itself to rap, and even masters of the form in the US have been complimentary.
		Today many French rappers are saying that if only their words had been listened to, the suburban violence might never have occurred.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4440422.stm (849 words)

	Freemuse: France: Rappers blamed for stoking violence
		The response from French prime minister Dominique de Villepin has been that rap songs were not to blame for the rioting in poor suburbs.
		Most French rap songs show a deep urge to articulate what would otherwise go unexpressed in words, and song after song dwells on the same themes of hopelessness, rejection by France, police harassment and the rage that follows.
		Rap and hip-hop have been part of France's immigrant youth scene for so long that many of the original artists - like Joey Starr, MC Solaar and the group IAM - are now regarded as respected old-timers.
	www.freemuse.org /sw11561.asp (736 words)

	MC Solaar - biography
		Rap music is often tipped as monotonous ; his music swings.
		And then three years later with the release, in June 1997 of his third album,recorded in Paris and mixed in New York, French rap star MC Solaar confirmed his status as an international artist without compromising any of his superb serenity.
		In 1995 he also made a song for a French film called La Haine which is about life in the French suburbs and the violence that takes place there.
	www.islandia.is /helgakr/solaar/biography.htm (587 words)

	CBC.ca - Arts - Music - Hang the MC
		Rap, invented in the Bronx in the 1970s, became global music because all you need to make it is a beat and something to rhyme about.
		The chorus of outrage is loudest in Toronto, where gangsta rap has been accused of inspiring a rash of shootings, and Paris, where scores of politicians have pointed to rap as the reason for suburban race rioting.
		In the late 1980s, hip hop’s hardest strain, gangsta rap, was born on the battlegrounds of America’s crack cocaine war.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/music/hangthemcday3.html (2960 words)

	Rap Lyrics Called Hate Propaganda
		Omnikrom is simply the most successful of a growing number of Quebec hip hop artists drawing their lyrical inspiration from the gutter.
		French radio in Quebec has had no qualms about playing obscenity-laced English songs that English radio would never touch without censoring, but the emergence of equally risque French lyrics is relatively new.
		Black Taboo's songs include God Bless the Topless, in which they rap, "Because I'm the one with the whip and I will not be dominated/ I hear, 'Stop!' It's time to keep going." Ms.
	www.fradical.com /Rap_lyrics_called_hate_propaganda_in_Quebec.htm (640 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| French MP blames riots on rappers
		A French MP has publicly accused rappers of fuelling the country's recent riots with their songs.
		French authorities said the situation had returned to normal last week, following three weeks of unrest that affected dozens of towns and cities.
		Four members of the rap group Sniper were acquitted earlier this year in Rouen, northern France, in a case brought by the Interior Ministry over a song it alleged incited attacks on the police.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/4467068.stm (405 words)

	Black, Blanc, Beur (Scarecrow Press, Inc.)
		Rap music was born in America in the early 1980s.
		In addition to a foreword by Adam Krims, a noted rap authority, this volume has contributions by some of the most renowned hip-hop scholars on both sides of the Atlantic and addresses hip-hop from the perspective of various disciplines: African studies, anthropology, cultural studies, ethnology, French and Francophone studies, history, linguistics, musicology, psychology, and sociology.
		Contributors discuss the history of French rap music from its origin to the present, the various artists and their groups, stage performances of the rap groups in Paris, Marseilles, the art of graffiti, and the French public's perceptions of rap music.
	www.uri.edu /artsci/ml/durand/Book.html (328 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Rough Cut . France: Soundtrack to a Riot \| PBS
		The children of these immigrants, who were born in France and consider themselves French citizens, feel shunned by the mainstream and have found creative ways to express their pain and anger.
		With...00 french policemen injured and maimed and its cities ablaze, the french are in no mood to listen to the multi cultural pied pipers tell us what we need to do.
		French officials have acknowledged that higher education is largely blocked to the sons and daughters of Arab and African immigrants.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/rough/2006/03/france_soundtra.html (2749 words)

	French Rap
		To most people in the UK, French rap means MC Solaar, the Senegal-born and 93-raised artist who recorded a couple of albums that just about penetrated the British market in the early Nineties, or perhaps bands such as NTM or IAM who were big a few years later.
		French rappers started by trying to rap in English, which was a disaster, then with French translations of English lyrics, which wasn't much better, and then finally in French.
		The truth about French rap is that there is a hard fringe that dominates reports in the media, a street mainstream that dominates the industry and then a vast range of artists, labels and fans who are following more diverse directions.
	www.redandwhitekop.com /forum/index.php?topic=110102.0 (5635 words)

	Court drops ‘insult to nation’ case against rapper, French News, France, Expatica
		The court ruled that the deputy was not qualified to bring charges against the rapper, since he was not the father of minor children and therefore had no personal interest in the case.
		Monsieur R was one of six French rap and hip-hop outfits accused of inciting racism and hatred in a petition signed by more than 200 French lawmakers in the wake of November's riots.
		Last week a French court confirmed the acquittal of another French rap artist, Sniper, who was sued by the interior ministry over a song denouncing police as "murderers." The prosecution has said it will appeal.
	www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=31169&name=Court+drops+%27insult+to+nation%27+case+against+rapper (425 words)

	James Petterson, French Department, Wellesley College
		Along with courses on poetry, he regularly teaches a course on French song from 1945 to present-day French rap, as well as a course on French lyric poetry from the twelfth-century troubadours to the Surrealists.
		He regularly teaches an upper-level course entitled "Literature and Inhumanity: Novel, Poetry, and Film in Interwar France," examining the confrontation between literature and inhumanity through the French literature, poetry and film of the early twentieth century.
		He is the translator of French literary, philosophical, and art historical texts, and he has published numerous articles ranging from the seventeenth-century French Poet Théophile de Viau to the contemporary poetry of Jacques Dupin, Louis-René des Forêts, and Yves Bonnefoy.
	www.wellesley.edu /French/facultyhomepages/Petterson/jpetterson.html (254 words)

	CLUAS \| Columns \| French Letter \| Rap in France
		The prize, named in memory of a late French music industry talent-spotter, is awarded annually to an artist or group who has come to prominence during the year.
		Rap and its constructive role in French society.
		Not to be confused with the Dublin-based cabaret singer of the same name, Camille and her album 'Le Fil' won the prestigious Prix Constantine for the most promising new act to emerge onto the French scene in 2005.
	www.cluas.com /columns/french-letter/rap-in-france.htm (1269 words)

	IslamOnline - Art & Entertainment Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In fact, Remc’s story is the story of nearly four generations of French nationals of Arab or Muslim origin who had been born in Franceand received their school education at the republic’s schools but could not feel they were citizens like those white-skinned and blue-eyed people.
		French rap, which rose in France in the late 1980s, bears in its content the same identity crisis from which American rap emerged to reflect the fl Americans’ sense of loss and disqualification.
		Since rap was born, the religious expressions have remained a manifestation of that devotion and faithfulness to the ancestors’ values.
	www.islamonline.net /English/artculture/2005/01/article02.shtml (1941 words)

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		Their hardcore Rap brought them problem with french justice, especially with the famous "Sacrifice du poulet" and "Brigitte femme de flic".
		He considers that french rap is not a family, despite the fact there exists great rappers.
		His lyrics are different from most of rap lyrics because Assassin thinks culture and not violence is the mean component of a successful social revolution.
	www.chez.com /abousworld/rap/artists/artists.html (495 words)

	David Brooks vs. gangsta rap. - By Jody Rosen - Slate Magazine
		In today's column, Brooks takes his shtick overseas and into the realm of pop music with a denunciation of "French gangsta rap." Citing the prevalence of hip-hop culture among "the rioters"—"poor young Muslim men" from Parisian banlieues and other French slums—Brooks goes on to to spin a theory of global gangsta rap hegemony.
		The French Ministry of Culture, stodgy arbiters of all that is Truly French, has already given one of its top music prizes to Marseilles firebrands IAM, largely because of the poetic skills of its lead rapper, Akhenaton.
		French rap lyrics today are like the American gangsta lyrics of about five or 10 years ago, when it was more common to fantasize about cop killings and gang rape.
	www.slate.com /id/2130120 (1301 words)

	Tony Parker Fuels Our Nightmares - Deadspin
		And if you're knocking him for rapping in French, well, I dont know how to put this, you do know he is...
		Just because you don't want to hear french rap doesn't mean that a) you're the know-all arbiter of whats cool/good/whatever and whats not and b) that other people, say people who DO speak french, don't want to hear the guy.
		I wasn't trying to say "you hate rap, you must be from the south and ig'nant" but rather the fact that everyone was so quick to dismiss it because it was FRENCH rap is a pretty boring and cliched (and hick) argument.
	www.deadspin.com /sports/san-antonio-spurs/tony-parker-fuels-our-nightmares-156533.php (1474 words)

	french rap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Groups that rap primarily about violence and poverty in the...
		NPR''s Jennifer Ludden reports from Paris on the growing popularity of French rap music on radio stations in France.
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	www.learning-gd.com /articles/164/french-rap.html (183 words)

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		Meanwhile, French rap was slowly beginning to take form on the music scene.
		At first French music fans were rather sceptical about this new genre, finding it hard to imagine that rap could exist in a language other than English.
		The viewer is left paralysed; stumbling between French hip hop advertising stickers, porn pin ups, images from 9/11 and the Taliban’s complemented by phrases from Steinweg’s texts.
	www.lycos.com /info/french-hip-hop.html (546 words)

	Rap et techno music in full boom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But the rap umbrella encompasses lyrics advocating violence, stories as beautiful as they are cold as well as lighter words (love songs) or even funny (anecdotes).
		French very quickly became vital to our « tchatcheurs », offering them the chance to bring their slang, their images, their metaphors, to life.
		Rap is part of their daily lives, and it is well worth making use of it, not as a lure, but as a tool.
	www.diplomatie.gouv.fr /label_france/ENGLISH/ART/rap_techno/rap_techno.html (1807 words)

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