Once upon a time IAM
Audio
SessionLab with IAM.
© RFI
By: Hortense Volle
4 min
Since November 2020, members of the IAM group have been hosting “IAM CONCEPT”, a weekly talk show recorded from their studio, La Cosca.
It is in this place steeped in history that the whole group welcomed Hortense Volle for a SessionLab, an original podcast in 3D audio.
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Publicity
"Once upon a time in a poor town
Kids heckling going to school
Many were good dancers and knew it
One of them wanted to be a rapper and doubted it
(…)
Hip-hop made me like Marvel came out of a gem
This music I breathe, spit and live
(…)
Even our story they will invent
Forget that shit, sit down, I'll tell you the real one
Once upon a time there was hip-hop
Came into my veins
Like a drug, yeah "
Once Upon a Time
from the album
Yazsuke
(2019)
Once upon a time, there were Marseille pioneers of French rap.
An "alliance of Afro-Asian poets" who, in the strict hip hop tradition, is in perpetual quest for innovation and renewal.
Result: it's been more than 30 years now that Akhenaton,
Shurik'n
,
Khéops, Imhotep and Kephren occupy the ground.
Well even!
IAM, there are thousands of concepts and concerts including one, famous, for the 20 years of the group, at the foot of the pyramids of Giza, in Egypt.
IAM is 10 albums, side projects and solos, unreleased tracks.
In all, more than
1000 songs
and not just the classics:
Tomorrow is far
,
Little brother
or
Born under the same star
,
all extracts
of the album
L'École du micro d'argent
sold 1.6 million copies.
Failing to be able to carry out their
Rap Warrior Tour
, the "Imperial Asiatic Men" tell their story in a book of memories
Between Stone and Feather
but also,
for two months, in
IAM CONCEPT,
a weekly talk show recorded in their studio, La Cosca.
It is in this place steeped in history that the whole group welcomed us for an anthology SessionLab!
A conversation with broken sticks in which we return, in music, to certain highlights of their pharaonic history: from their first trips to New York to their collaboration with Beyoncé, including their meeting with James Brown.
A unique epic, an "endless summer camp" according to their expression, which is above all a great story of friendship.
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Titles broadcast in the podcast
The Silver Micro School
(
The Silver Micro School -
1997)
The Empire of the Dark Side
(
The Silver Microphone School -
1997)
IAM Concept
(
From the planet Mars -
1991)
Once Upon a Time
(
Yasuke -
2019)
Interview (Shadow is Light -
1993)
I come from Marseille
feat.
Laf Larage and Def Bond (
From the planet Mars -
1991)
New York City Transit
(
Sol Invictus -
2001)
This is The B Side
by Choice MC
feat Akhenaton
I dance the mia
(
Shadow is light
- 1993)
Born under the same star (L'École du micro d'argent - 1997)
Like a Prayer
by Madonna
Say it Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud
by James Brown
Public Enemy # 1
by James Brown
Pharaoh returns (From the planet Mars
- 1991)
Welcome
feat Beyoncé
(
Review a spring -
2015)
Between Stone and Feather
(
Soldiers of Fortune -
2006)
The End of Their World
(
Soldiers of Fortune -
2006)
Tomorrow is a long way away
(
L'École du micro d'argent
- 1997)
To read
IAM in collaboration with journalist Baptiste Bouthier
Entre la pierre et la plume
(Stock) 2020
To see or listen:
IAM CONCEPT
: in audio or video
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