The city of Boulogne-Billancourt has decided to honor rap? This is what some Internet users are saying in recent days. The inhabitants of the city of Hauts-de-Seine and those who have walked there have noticed that certain streets have changed names. The famous Place Marcel Samba now displays the Rue Booba sign. Now there is also the Dany Dan street, the one called Kohndo…
“A great idea to bring street names up to date,” said a user. “Something to highlight the artists from the city and often forgotten”, notes another. But has the city hall really chosen to pay tribute to the Boulogne rappers? 20 minutes explains to you.
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This is not an initiative of the town hall, and these are not the official street names. You will therefore not be able (yet) to meet in the street of “B2O”.
It is actually an artistic installation created on the occasion of the release, this Wednesday, May 3, of “Boulogne, a school of French rap”, a work by Nicolas Rogès which appears at JC Lattès editions. This book-investigation retraces the history of hip-hop in Boulogne-Billancourt, and the influence of its artists.
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Readers will be able to discover nearly 1,000 anecdotes at the heart of the 350 pages of his investigation, going from Booba to Salif who have a real attachment to “Boulbi”.
“The idea was to summarize the spirit of the book in an artistic form,” said Mahir Guven, at the initiative of the installations, with Le Parisien. “It’s not about vandalism but about making the walls speak, showing the influence that lots of artists from a very restricted territory have had on French rap. »