- Mister V presents their second album "MVP" this Friday.
- In addition to rap, he is also known for his humorous videos on YouTube.
- Credibility, musical support, humor ... Mister V answered the questions of "20 Minutes".
Some laugh at his YouTube videos, others saw him on the big screen, in Public Place by Agnes Jaoui or All Inclusive by Fabien Onteniente. At the end of 2019 he created the event by integrating the NBA 2K20 video game, and quite recently, he appeared alongside Will Smith to ravage a Parisian "fury room".
But it is with music that Mister V has decided to start 2020, with the release this Friday of his second rap album MVP , almost three years after Double V , a successful disc, including platinum. Credibility, musical support, humor ... 20 Minutes asked a few questions to Mister V, a Swiss knife artist who chose not to choose.
What does "MVP" mean, the title of your album?
In basketball, in the NBA, the best player of the season is crowned "MVP" ("most valuable player"), but in my opinion it has several meanings, like the notable evolution between the first and the second album. On the cover of MVP , I see myself with a Fiat Panda in the Transformers spirit, while on the first it appeared with wings, very homemade . There we came back to Earth, it's not really an album of confirmation, but we're there now, it's no longer an in-between where we're looking for ourselves, we're starting to find each other. But I still have things to do and I do not consider myself as having reached my peak, far from it.
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Is it true that rapper Damso encouraged you to make this second album?
I already had plans to do it but it boosted me to death, it made me receive a multitude of prod thanks to a call on Instagram. I received 16,000 prod in 3 days, it gives an idea of the impact of Damso on music in France and on beatmakers… And I apologize to all the composers who sent me emails and to whom I did not give any answers, but I did not have time to listen to everything, I would still be there I think! I had already planned to make a second album in the sense that I was shocked and surprised by the returns for Double V , I was super happy. But I was a little hungry because you can't do everything on a first album, especially since in my position, a guy who comes from humor and who makes comedy, you can have received ideas, blockages ... But the first was platinum, so why lock yourself in a kind of "I want to please everyone"? No, here we are. Some will get on the train, others will stay on the platform. We'll see how it goes but let's say there is much less hesitation.
Do you feel that you have gained credibility?
The return of local people allows me to gain more credibility than when I started, people are much less skeptical than before. Now, I don't take it for granted that I'm part of the rap game like a Vald or a Fianso, the guys from the current French rap scene. I really don't want to say "I'm at your table guys! I do my thing, it does not mean that I appear in interviews like Mister V, "above all rapper". No ! In the end I am what people want me to be, I don't care. I do what I want and we will see how it is received, in any case I went to the end of the project, I will defend it thoroughly.
PLK, Jul and Dosseh are featured on this album. Is it easier to approach these artists now?
On the first I had artists like Hayce Lemsi and Volts Face featuring. I thank them for that because it was the first to give me strength and really support me in this. They helped me get people to take it seriously. On the second, I sent rappers almost finished sounds, telling them that a part was reserved for them if they were interested. I explain to them so that they understand that it is not hard work. There is more to ask and it shows that the process is sincere and serious, and not yet another travesty.
Precisely, you sometimes parody the world of rap, is it difficult to go from humor seriously, and to make people understand it?
It was also all the work of this album. Rap vs Réalité 2 is the most viewed video of the year [in France in 2019], it's a parody of rap, and here I come with an album 100% first degree. But people have also caught that certainly I parody rap, but I do it by being a fan of this music. When I make a parody of Koba LaD I don't do it to make fun of him but because I like it! I want to laugh more than to make fun of it, it's more a kind of funny tribute. Before I even made videos, I was rap, I always had that at heart, and the desire to do something good. But obviously, in everyday life and to promote, it's a complicated exercise, the border is very fine. For example, for this album, I'm making some funny videos but I know that there are limits that should not be exceeded. Or when I do an interview, I know that I defend a rap project so I also have to bring seriousness. It is more mentally where you have to succeed in knowing who you are and where you are going. It was also the job of 2019 to know how to position myself in this career. I chose to have a serious musical side, but I don't want to abandon the comedy side, because it's me. But as long as I remain sincere, honest and true, I think people have understood and that it does them a little good to see a guy who takes this seriously but who also knows how to put distance.
So YouTube and humor is not over yet?
Not at all ! Why should I stop one or the other? It's just that it has never really been done in the past and that in France we like to label a person, put them in a box and tell them that they will not get out. I don't like to go where people are waiting for me all the time, I like to do what I like. In 2019 what I preferred is to be in the studio, this year it will be sung my songs on stage. I also wrote a film and I should start shooting, 2021 I will love making movies, 2022 I may come back on YouTube and I will love being a full-time youtubeur…
The chance that you had to launch this career, is also to have been able to build a strong community of fans before?
Yes I did not arrive with the classic path of the rapper who makes open mics with three drunk guys who do not know the lyrics of your songs ... No no! But I brought this up as I went along with my music channel. I did not arrive overnight saying “hi me I love rap is my passion! "It was done little by little over a lot of years, I installed the delirium as I went along. And I started rapping when I was a teenager, when I was 11 years old. It was something that I did before but that I perhaps did not assume, I was more in humor, but I had this desire inside me. I felt like I was going to have regrets if I didn't do something. Even if I lose money. But I tried and it worked.
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