The moment former rappers accepted to be the new Chanson Francaise. Before delivering the soundtrack of 2017's youth, Antoine (eh) was a trve rapper: his focus was the bars, his mean was his wittiness. After years of struggle and virtually no commercial success, he decided to go full pop with this album. Sure, there still are traces of rap here and there: Lucy is the prime example of a pure rap song, and almost all tracks have beats or sentences reminiscent of hip hop. Yet, he diluted his former endeavours with new ones: electronic and pop (Ray Liotta is the best modern take on French song you could find), without really alienating his previous audience (gg boi). A pivotal moment in French song, it symbolizes the decade during which French hip hop finally accepted rwhat it was: the music of the people. Letting go of any gangsta or conscious attitude, Lomepal is simply putting his thoughts into music, and that's why he had a massive success: his music is genre-bending, he speaks his mind - very much connected to the zeitgeist and yet not truly political or whatnot - and didn't care about the repercussion of his artistry on his "legitimacy" as a rapper. As he said in his next album, Jeannine: FLIP c'est un monument. That's arrogant, but he's right. This is an album that changed the game.
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