Masque blanc

Description

S.Pri Noir has been rapping for ten years, and even though he is only releasing his first album today, his career is already quite rich. His uniqueness lies in the fact that he is a rapper from the suburbs who has never really delved into the typical suburban rap, even though he knows how to do it very well. It is precisely because he has been building his own thing for years that he is so established, respected, admired, and followed by his peers. Masque Blanc is anything but a typical album from the French rap scene of 2018. It features collaborations, long stretches where the rhythms are subtle if not absent, and then elements that come from elsewhere, whether it’s Senegalese music, house, and here and there, a lot of those Caribbean, Hispanic, electro, or R&B vibes that today make up the raw material of global pop. It’s an album that evokes the early days of S.Pri Noir – particularly his early taste for “kicking” in the old school way, meaning those virtuosic and hard-hitting flows reminiscent of Time Bomb or Secteur Ä – and it is rooted in a present where rap, having become the most spoken musical language in France, is no longer just a musical genre, but the most widespread and diverse mode of expression embraced by the youth.