Nice (AFP)
Rejected by record companies who judged his rap "too clean", the singer Nice Kaotik 747 released Thursday a clip to denounce the attacks against the police and relief, during a screening in the presence of the mayor and the prefect.
Inspired by facts told by the firefighters, # Projet18 features a young man who rocks the firemen on the roof of his building and then realizes that his own mother has called them. Relief workers have to turn around and his father collapses with a heart attack.
"It's hot news," commented the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes Bernard Gonzalez, referring, without giving figures, "a worrying rise in violence against persons holding public authority" and thanking the singer Karim Bouchagour, aka Kaotik 747, for his initiative.
"No, the youth of this country is not rotten!", Added the prefect, echoing Mayor (LR) Christian Estrosi who confessed to having overcome "a priori not so favorable" for rap, " this art is probably the most understood by our youth "but of which" we are more accustomed to that some make use of incitement to violence, barbarism sometimes ".
Symbolically, it is he who triggered the launch of the clip, at the request of the singer.
"Nice is not known as a rap city, and after this project, it's going to change," said Kaotik, deeply moved in his black cap, on a jogging suit featuring the OGC sponsoring him. Activist t-shirt "No Weapon No hate No violence". "Nice will become a city of rap but positive rap"
In front of fans and extras of the clip, he warned: "France, do not be surprised that part of your youth is vulgar and violent Look at the clips that your youth looks at: weapons, insults, clichés, the race buzz (...) I made this choice not to enter this box and develop themes that I like ".
He summed up: "Never forget that behind the uniform, there is a man, a woman, a life, a heart that beats and that uniform saves you!"
Filmed in July in Nice, the clip has received support for the production and distribution of the city of 10,000 euros and half of the benefits of viewing must come back to associations working for children wards of the Nation who lost a parent in the performance of a rescue mission.
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