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I Rap Therefore I Am

0.0 73 mins Documentary   Music   1999
La Compagnie Panoptique   CPB Films   La Sept-Arte  
Director(s): Philippe Roizès

Rap ? Violent words, a social chronicle without complacency at a time of the politically correct and a wishywashy consensus. Twenty years after its first babblings in the popular quarters of New York, rap has imposed its presence beyond the borders. Je rap donc je suis (I Rap Therefore I Am) goes around five different towns where it meets rappers driven by the same motivation. In Paris and its suburbs, Marseille and its districts, Algiers, London or Berlin, rappers move, play, record, teach... And above all, they talk. Outside of any promotional context, the present-day heralds of French hip-hop, from La Rumeur to IAM, speak about the role of rap, the environment in which it was born, boredom, the feeling of belonging to a sacrificed generation, drugs in districts of towns, immigration, parents, political and social actors, the police, school, writing, money, the parallel economy, violence...

Casts of I Rap Therefore I Am

Akhenaton

as Self

Passi

as Self

Stomy Bugsy

as Self

Faf Larage

as Self

Imhotep

as Self

Keny Arkana

as Self

Hamé

as Self

Boss One

as Self

Solo

as Self

Le Bavar

as Self

Yazid

as Self

Jo Popo

as Self

Sat

as Self

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