Re: french rap questions
Palle Zetterstrand (superfly@etek.chalmers.se)
Fri, 15 Sep 1995 09:14:16 +0200 (MET DST)
>
> >Glad to see we're getting some discussion on french rap music. I love this
> >stuff.
>
> Me too! I don't have most of the artists mentioned so far. I do have, and
> like very much, MC Solaar (both on Jazzmatazz I and on his own). What is
> ironic to me is that I can't understand a word of it (since I don't speak
> French), but I like it for its rhythm. It seems to me that rapping in
> another language forces the use of different rhythms, and of course
> linguistics, in the rap (compared to English). Anyone else agree?
I agree fully and totally. Not only is the rhythm of french good, the
possibilities of fooling around with pronounciation and double meanings
are vast. Unfortunately I'm not french but from Sweden and our language
could make the best rapper sound stilted. And finnish seems to me to be
an even worse language. I've not heard many japanese rappers but I guess
a sign based language could drive you crazy with all possible meanings
of each word.
-Palle Zetterstrand