From his beginnings in rap with the group N.A.P., ABD AL MALIK has never stopped challenging, circumventing, and subverting the rules of his rap. In 2015, freedom continues to infuse his work. With this fifth solo album, entirely produced by the global techno legend LAURENT GARNIER, ABD AL MALIK once again emerges where he was least expected. The stance is radical, the project epic. Across the 13 tracks of "Scarifications," his first album with LE LABEL - [PIAS], both the rapper and the producer step out of their comfort zones. Rarely has LAURENT GARNIER delivered 4/4 productions of this kind, and rarely has ABD AL MALIK rapped with such fervor, such aggression, such insolence. It’s an atmosphere, an electric melancholy populated by instrumentalized gods, sales payable in dollars, unspeakable loves, and adolescents full of dreams of grandeur. A look back at childhood, a gaze towards tomorrow. And above the future, a dense, full, black sun.
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