The two rappers, who have been attacking each other for months on social networks, were both on the bill at the La Rochelle festival on Friday evening. The intervention of the organizers and the CRS prevented a meeting which could have degenerated.
A CRS cordon was deployed on Friday evening at the Francofolies de La Rochelle, to avoid any meeting between Booba and Vald, who have been rubbing each other since this winter on social networks.
Act I: At the end of his concert, Vald, seated in the back of a truck, with his escort, takes selfies with his fans, behind the big stage, on the path that Booba must take to get there. However, since this winter, tension has risen on social networks between Booba and Vald, two big sellers of rap, against a backdrop of accusations of inflated listening figures on music platforms.
The direction of the festival encouraged Vald to leave the path Booba was going to take, which he did. Then, a cordon of about thirty CRS was deployed there to secure the arrival of Booba, who finally arrived more than an hour late on stage (after midnight instead of 11 p.m.). Vald was on the main stage of the Francofolies at 7:45 p.m.
Act II: Vald was back, with his followers, to boo Booba’s van when he left at 2 a.m., behind the CRS cordon.
No remake of the fight at Orly in 2018
The police device made it possible to avoid a remake of the famous general fight in which Booba, and another rival in rap, Kaaris, had been the protagonists at Orly airport in 2018.
All day Friday, Booba and Vald had been looking for each other on social networks. “Good concert, we want peace, believe me, you don’t want war,” Booba began. “You lose the ball the vioc, it’s you, you promise a slap and (there) you want peace twice in the same tweet, me (I) said nothing, did nothing”, replied Vald.
Vald, who celebrated his 30th birthday on stage at the Francofolies – receiving cake with candles during his concert – appeared during his show with around thirty companions around him. “Remember that he’s my first part, eh. You can send your slaves back, we don’t mean you any harm”, Booba quipped on Twitter when he saw the images of all these relatives – some bodybuilders – around Vald. Vald then posted on Instagram a photo of him lying in a deckchair, with his cake, at the foot of the stage, seeming to be waiting for Booba.
“You didn’t pay, but you can enjoy it anyway”
Arriving on stage at night, Booba could not help but throw spades at Vald, mocking the microphone of the people surrounding him “recruited at Fitness Park” (complex of sports halls). Booba still has the same sense of repartee, also joking about these inhabitants of La Rochelle who attend the Francos concerts from the balconies of their neighboring apartments.
“Well, you, on the balconies, you haven’t paid, but you can enjoy it anyway”, launched the one nicknamed the Duke of Boulogne.