"Being solo is more pressure and more work", assures Lujipeka

• Back in his hometown, Lujipeka kicks off the Trans Musicales de Rennes this Wednesday evening.

• For five evenings, the rapper will come to defend on stage his first solo album released in early November.

• He looks back for

  20 Minutes

  on his early career with the Columbine group and on this new adventure.

He will have the difficult task of succeeding artists now confirmed as Stromae, Fishbach or Aloïse Sauvage.

It is to Lujipeka that Jean-Louis Brossard, the historic boss of Trans Musicales, this year entrusted the creation of the festival which starts this Wednesday.

For five evenings, all already sold out, the Rennes rapper will come to defend on the stage of L'Aire Libre the titles of his first album

, released on November 5, before continuing on a major tour throughout France.

A few hours before his first show, the former member of the group Columbine, took the time between two rehearsals to respond to

.

You are back in Rennes to ensure the creation of the Trans.

Not too stressed?

A little indeed.

But it's positive pressure because I know it's an important passage.

The approach is in any case different from a classical concert.

This is already taking place in a theater and we had time to prepare for this creation.

This is the first time that I have this opportunity to push a show so much.

We have done a few concerts since the start of the school year to find the people and the energy of the scene, but it was quite raw and without decoration.

There, there is clearly the will to take it up a notch.

We really took the time to build a story, to work on the scenography.

V

ll keep

what memories of Trans Musicales?

I really like the energy of the city during the festival.

The whole city is affected, things are happening everywhere.

As soon as I entered high school, I took advantage of it by going to Bars en Trans or Parc Expo.

I also played there with Columbine in 2017. So I have the experience of the Trans as a festival-goer and as an artist.

Your Columbine group has been on hold for over two years now.

How does it make a difference to be solo?

This is the next step in the life of a collective.

We formed between friends and as a team and at one point, you have to face it alone.

It's more pressure and more work, but it's also more freedom.

But this new experience should not have happened any faster because I now realize the workload that this represents.

When we are in a group, we camouflage ourselves a little, we work more on energy.

In solo, everything has to be square.

It is also

for

you

the passage from adolescence to adulthood ...

Totally.

Columbine is the end of high school, it's quite an adventure with several albums and lots of concerts.

There, I do a little the same path but alone.

But I had the best possible school to train myself.

Suddenly I see things a little differently, with more maturity and other desires too.

But the album also tells of the difficulty to return to 100% in adulthood even if I realized that I grew up.

In any case, I have the chance to live from my passion, it allows me to keep this kind of childish madness.

In your album, you are a bit of a witness to a somewhat disenchanted generation.

How do you see today's society?

I tell the story of a guy my age.

I lived a lot of things in a group that sometimes disconnected me a little from certain friends but I have the same life stories as everyone else.

My gaze isn't always disenchanted, just on certain tracks like

.

It started with a vision.

You watch TV and you see it's a mess everywhere.

But you don't quite know how to act to change things.

You also open up to other musical styles on this album ...

It's hard indeed to clearly type my music.

It's between rap and song, at least on the album.

But there are also walks, reggae, a song with Cerrone.

I like this idea of ​​freedom.

When I put a playlist in the car, I can go from rooster to donkey.

So naturally when I'm in the studio, I don't forbid myself to any genre.

This is what makes the evolution of rap interesting.

There are no more limits now, the barriers are broken and that is why there are always new artists arriving.

There is a freedom of creation which is seriously cool!

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