"La Haine"
Various Artists

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Why French Hip-Hop is to be taken seriously
The soundtrack of the film La Haine is a document on where French Hip Hop is today. The film is on the tension in the concrete jungle in Paris. The tension being mostly between the Police and the people living in the Suburbs. The film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes (the police in the cinema refused to watch and were standing with their backs turned to the screen). The CD really supplements the movie. MC Solaar, I AM and others indicate that French hiphop is a serious force It is a way in which rappers from the many cultures that make up the population in cities such as Paris and Marseille found a way to express themselves. It is of a much higher quality than L.A. style gangsta rap. The soundtrack is an excellent introduction in to this.

The only downside is that the CD does not contain the Burning and Lootin' that blasted from the cinema speakers at the start of the movie.


excellent French hip-hop CD
this is a must-hear! A great moment of rap music and of freedom of speech in the mid-90's. Ministere Amer's "Sacrifice de poulets" is a very good track and a milestone in the political history of French rap. French State and police sued them for that track. MC Solaar's tune was removed from last copies of the CD. I do not know why but it is a pity. "Comme dans un film" is one of his best songs, and maybe his most politically engaged - the extreme-right party Front National being hit by the MC's brilliant verbal and artistic bullets.

killer!
This music makes me nervous, I feel like Vincent Cassel is going to start a fight with me at any moment.

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