TESTIMONY
"I recognize the pain of the poor, I no longer want this life": in his title Confessions , the rapper Dadju evokes without taboo his childhood marked by poverty. At Anne Roumanoff's microphone, on Tuesday, he retraced this dark period of his life, while paying homage to his former childcare center, which he describes as a "super heroine".
Dadju grew up in Romainville, in Seine-Saint-Denis with his thirteen brothers and sisters. His father being absent, his undocumented mother raised them alone. "We lived in extremely difficult situations. We were on the street. We were expelled. We slept outside, without money, without anyone," he recalls. His friends, "also in their galleys", could not help him.
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At that time, however, some people reached out to him. This is the case of his CPE, which he tenderly evokes today. "She organized collections at the school so that we could eat. She took us to the town hall and spoke on our behalf," says Dadju.
"Superhero"
Calling himself "very proud", Dadju was not well but he did not show it. This was without taking into account the vigilance of his childcare center, which eventually spotted the adolescent's distress. "The more the days went by, the more edgy and negative I got when I was originally very positive," says Dadju. "My childcare center knew me well so she started to test the waters by asking me questions and asking how it was going on at my place. One day, I told her that I no longer lived at home and that I should take three bus to come to school. From there, she did everything necessary for us ", describes the rapper, who presents her as a" super heroine ", like an" Avenger ".
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Even today, Dadju says he is "still in touch with her". He is all the more happy because she has never sought to profit from the rapper's success. "Even though she knows that I do concerts all over the world, she never asked me for anything. She found me and she just sent me a message saying that she was proud of what I did had become, "rejoices Dadju, who says he was" very touched "by this gesture.