Alexis Patri 5:06 pm, November 02, 2021

Guest Tuesday of Philippe Vandel's program "Culture Médias" to present his book "Le petit Didier", in which he tells about his childhood, JoeyStarr returns to Europe 1 on an unusual episode of his childhood: the day his father l disenchanted according to a voodoo rite, so that he would be better at maths.

INTERVIEW

"When people talk to me about numbers today, I want to curl up on the floor. That's the result. It was awesome."

Not without irony, JoeyStarr returns Tuesday in the program

Culture Médias 

on the pain that was for him the learning of the multiplication tables.

Because it is under the blows of his father, who fell in case of wrong answers, that the future rapper had to revise his mathematics lessons.

An episode that he also tells in the new book he devotes to his childhood, entitled 

Le petit Didier

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"Very awkwardly, it was a desire to make me someone very educated, not to miss my studies", explains the rapper today.

"In fact, it was quite the opposite."

Faced with the poor results of his son, JoeyStarr's father even organizes a voodoo session for his son, in order to unenchant him and make him tame mathematics.

"I didn't understand what was going on"

“As I was quite young, my true memory of this session is especially that I am at home and, all of a sudden, people arrive with my father. We turn off the lights, we light candles. especially the atmosphere that marked me, "he remembers.

"As I grow up in an atmosphere that is basically very silent, nothing is explained to me."

His father's friends put him on underpants and begin the ritual.

"I didn't understand what was going on. I had someone mumbling around me, taking out things, instruments, passing kind of leaves on my body," continues JoeyStarr.

"And then, all of a sudden, everyone leaves. There, the deal is done."

Did the ritual improve her math results?

"Of course not," he retorts.

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Even if he rejects the violence suffered in his childhood, the rapper refuses that we remember only that of his father, with whom he no longer has contact.

"My father was still someone who cooked, who was very skilled with his hands, and who had a real musical culture," he defends, among other things.