Season 1
(2019)
Overview
Concrete Feeling tells the story of French hip-hop. It’s about rap as social comment and how French hip-hop climbed the charts to become the most popular music in France.
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Episodes
Intro 0.0
April 8, 2019
Coming out of France’s suburban ghetto, the first French hip-hop artists take the country by storm in 1990. Names like …
On Mission 0.0
April 8, 2019
The mainly BAME neighbourhoods of Paris were places mainstream media didn't go and didn't talk about. So the local rapp…
Authenticity [Part I] 0.0
April 8, 2019
Rap took off: no longer a genre on the fringes of acceptability or even on the fringes of what is considered music: it …
Each to Their Own Gang 0.0
April 8, 2019
The rapper is a social animal. He moves in groups and collectives, like Time Bomb or Beat 2 Boul. They're like famillie…
Interlude [Police] 0.0
April 8, 2019
Every generation of rapper in France tackles the diffcult and sometimes violent relationship between the police and urb…
Serious Business 0.0
April 8, 2019
Some rappers aren't content to work for somebody else. They intend to decide for themselves on their own terms rather t…
We're the First 0.0
April 8, 2019
In 1996, after a law was passed demanding that 40 percent of the music played on French radio be French, the radio stat…
Authenticity [Part II] 0.0
April 8, 2019
Rap has grown mainstream; and in doing so, has it lost its soul? And which rap has value, which one is the authentic ra…
Everything Burns 0.0
April 8, 2019
2005. In the aftermath of the biggest riots in France since May 68, the political class has to find the culprit. It's n…
Outro 0.0
April 8, 2019
French rap may not have achieved the social changes it wanted, but it is now a firm favourite on the airwaves. This is …