Paris (AFP)

It has been cataloged ideal son-in-law but he "does not like the boxes": Dadju, brother of Gims, surprises with his second album, "Poison", more hip-hop, more raw, and confides to the AFP, between absent father and bad password "SDF", teenager.

When we talk to him about a disc-therapy - released on November 15 - he agrees. "I never really talked about myself, never said that for a year, a year and a half I lived outside, I was homeless," he says.

"I was in 5th, my mother chained the odd jobs, we were in arrears of rents, we were expelled," he continues. "Poison" opens on "Confessions" where we hear "I know the pain of the poor / I want more of this life".

It was her senior education advisor who pulled them out of there. "She took my mother - who had no papers (she comes from DR Congo, ed) - at the town hall, my CPE spoke on our behalf, said + it is inadmissible +". He paused, his eyes misty, before resuming the interview.

He had "no sign of this person at all" but she found it on Instagram. He calls her right away. "I'm well known, she knows she can have concert tickets, can even ask me for money: she just said, + I'm happy to see you're good, have a good day. It's a source of inspiration for this woman, one of the reasons I put together an asso, Give Back, to give back to others ".

- "The p'tits speak cash" -

Gims' little brother - "we did not grow up together, he was born in the bled (DR Congo, ed), then in Paris, me in the 93" - also sings having pushed without father in "Papa". "I saw him once a year or every two years."

The song is written from the point of view of the child that he was and releases what he would have liked to tell him at the time. "When you are an adult, you are in tact, empathy, but the little ones talk about cash - + I do not forgive + - without a filter," he analyzes.

At 28, he is "no longer in hate": "I speak with him, like last night, it has nothing to do with the love for my mother, but it remains my father, it is not is not someone bad, he's just not meant to be a father ".

He does not hide anything in the album of difficulties to reconcile his early meteoric career and his family life. "In 2017, there was my first album, I got married, I had a daughter, my wife did not necessarily choose this life, her husband was not there - I was on tour - she had a hard time. " It's better: "Here we come to find a good balance".

His fans may be surprised by titles like "Complicated", a story of adultery that is not inspired by his life but where he puts himself in the skin of the narrator. Likewise with "My fault", where the fictional character does not dare to tell his half that another is expecting a child from him.

Dadju also detonates with "Pair of Ace", in collaboration with Nekfeu, and "TPB" (for "You're not Beyoncé") with Koba LaD, in a hip-hop style, far from the r'n'b of " Queen "on her first album.

"I do not like labels, boxes, I do not like being told that I'm an afro artist, r'n'b ... I'm an artist, that's my rap side, c 'is still here at home,' he says.

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