Alexis Patri 2:00 p.m., September 26, 2021, modified at 2:09 p.m., September 26, 2021

At the microphone of Isabelle Morizet in the program "There is not only one life in life" on Sunday, rapper Mc Solaar looks back on his personal and professional career.

He also evokes with regret the lack of French female rappers since the end of Diam's career.

An absence that he finds it difficult to understand.

INTERVIEW

Have French rappers disappeared from circulation since the end of Diam's career?

In any case, they are hardly visible, unlike their male colleagues.

An absence that Mc Solaar deplores Sunday at the microphone of Isabelle Morizet, during her appearance on the show 

There is not only one life in life

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"I cannot understand why there is not the emergence of something since Diam's", he regrets.

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"I'm not going to accuse them. But that will be my subject of study", continues the artist.

"You have to know that, quite regularly, when you are young in the movement, you are quite misogynist. This is also when people want to get into a genre. Maybe it can scare them. sometimes."

"I hope that the French rappers did not give up"

But is that enough to explain their absence from the charts in France?

The rappers are however legion in the United States, with headlining Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, Megan Thee Stallion and Doja Cat, in particular.

"In the United States, they are feminine and warlike! They make an ego trip with regard to the male gente", rejoices Mc Solaar.

"I do not know the formula for someone in France, but we have to find something. I hope they did not give up."

French rappers, the specialized media 

Madame rap

nonetheless identifies 344. But many are self-produced and struggle to sign in major record companies.

"I'm giving myself two years to find," smiles the rapper, who is also a producer of several emerging artists.