What if rap music had been the first true expression of “Grand Paris”? What if, even before the huge urban project we now know as Grand Paris, the Ile-de-France region had expressed its uniqueness and multiple identities through art? “Paname, le Grand Paris du rap” tells the story of the roaring 2010s, during which the Ile-de-France rap scene became one of the world’s most important rap centers.
We’ll dive to find its roots, explore its diversity and travel both sides of the périphérique beltway. Those 10 years shaped music, and the music shaped them in return.