- In the middle of a coronavirus pandemic, the rap group "G7N" from Grenoble, where two of its members are stretcher bearers, has just come out in title to pay tribute to the hospital staff.
- Their song, inspired by the reality that they rub shoulders with every day, recorded a big success on the Web.
When he leaves the aisles of the Grenoble University Hospital (Isère) where he has worked for five years as a stretcher bearer, Samir frequently joins his brother Adel and their friend Djamel to rap. Hospital and music, two distant universes that the young man brought together for a song and a clip made with his group G7N (J'ai ce haine) to pay tribute to the hospital staff. "With all that we have seen since the start of Covid-19, I told myself that with my music, I too could show my solidarity", confides to 20 Minutes this former kid from the Grenoble suburbs.
His brother and his childhood friend, also a stretcher bearer at the town's mutual clinic, are not difficult to convince. The three guys have already made a few clips posted on YouTube and have a certain facility for writing and delivering their message. “We make festive songs. We have a positive hatred, positive waves. We are happy, so we put all our energy into our passion to show and share this joie de vivre, ”added the 30-year-old rapper.
To evoke this pandemic which spares no country today and has put the hospital system in front of its immense flaws, Samir and his two acolytes had only to draw from what they lived and saw at the CHU, where they shot their clip. A hospital where, like elsewhere in France, the coronavirus has landed almost without warning.
“When the Covid-19 arrived, no one was ready. I saw the hospital organize, my colleagues, courageous, who continued to do their job, doctors, nurses go to the front. It is not easy to make this decision to continue, continues the one who volunteered recently to transport patients other than those in his department, those of the Covid unit. I also wanted to lead by example, it could be our mothers, our sisters, these patients ”.
In their song called “8pm”, in reference to the time at which the French pay homage each evening to the professionals mobilized during the health crisis, the rappers recall the mobilization of all the staff of the CHU. “Here a crisis, here the war, no need for weapons, they are our soldiers. ASH, stretcher bearers and nurses, you are our heroes and France is proud of it, "sing the rappers, whose title does not overlook the effects of confinement. "I saw people fighting in front of Carrefour, eating almost a bastos for a small oven," continue the Grenoblois, whose clip has toured the web. “We did this for the CHU staff, for our colleagues. We never imagined that he would be seen and shared like that. ”
In just a few days, their title was viewed more than 1.5 million times and shared 23,000 times. The rappers have received messages of support and congratulations from all over France, but also from Europe and Canada. “What touched me was that I have colleagues who cried at the end of the clip. If you can do good with music, it's extraordinary, ”underlines Samir, determined, once the pandemic has passed, to continue to use rap to“ transmit his emotions and his messages ”.
A message came this time "from below", he recalls, to highlight also the stretcher bearers, the nursing assistants, often remained in the shadow of this fight against the coronavirus, but which came back "all at the top ”of the hierarchy. “Great teachers, specialists, congratulated us. And the direction of the CHU shared the clip. It is also what is beautiful in the message of solidarity that we wanted to carry ”.
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