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Rap, Mafia and video games ...

Originally the game: the arcades, Japan. The local mafia, the Yakuza, ensuring the "protection". The French Akihabara, Boulevard Voltaire, for his part has always been an "aura" of a mob (it persists for a long time this rumor that a family would be holding the fortnight of boutiques), the arcades, smoky, of the 80 were not better prepared the ground. The game would be (home) connected? ... a little, a bit like rap in fact.

Cultural Movement, from the street and has several components (in hip-hop and graffiti, in particular) rap fleurte as time is a little with the Mafia. Gangsta rap artists among its many former gang members.

We are in mid-April 2010, rapper Guru (Gang Starr, Jazzmatazz) just died. The war gaming around the museum (which just opened / closed following a strange problem of lift), for its part, has begun. It appears to me of course, ridiculous, much like anything that does not kill ... elsewhere. Apparently, no links between these two events? And yet! This article begins to appear.



"You're late, j'te say in advance. While they eat us, others are advancing. "This sentence Kery James (French rapper) could be summarized in his own way, this little war-war for the" authorship "of museum video game that has recently engagé.Une Association (MO5) on one side (supported by the Ministry of Culture) and a company that specializes in organizing events (Alert Orange) of the other who successful, for its part, creating, at the top of the arch of the defense, the first museum of gaming. The game has always conveyed an image of "insider" of stuff to share ... and his "protectors" are not always abroad, I think. But then, my friends retrogamers, the video game belongs to everyone ... and for rap, it's the same thing. Initially underground, he began to become public, should it do? Bah ... will have, I think!

In this photo, GURU (the late rapper) posing in front of an arcade Egret 2 (his name) from Taito (the manufacturer) ... gives me this reflection. The photo is taken in the first shop Neo legend (partner of the museum from 1 game and 1 dealer Japanese arcades, France).. You see? Even with a starting point a bit convoluted, found already resonances rap / video game and rightly so ... finally



rap and video games, are both born in the 80 and both have known of the first steps difficult. Only a few thousand faithful and is logical: the first exhibition spaces rather disreputable, disciplines where everything is invented. Not enough to attract the crowds! Thus, while the programmers and their first game ever most innovative DJ and the first evolved their creations begin to integrate more and more techniques and samples of their music. The dance starts fights, graffiti settle. Rap phrasing was more pure, hard ... hardcore. They also say hardcore gamer? Indeed.

Video games and rap are the fruits of the same generation and in the same way those two have become public, very industrial ... There, I forget for a moment the arcades and the absence of Evin law and just remember that the studios initially, whether programming or recordings, did not exist! The staff? It was rather a "gus", alone, groping, samples only, master on board. At the edge of the void (belly?). So all starts in the 80s and then accelerate in 1990. Today is a business that, in both cases, exceeded the understanding (understand the generation above!).
Among this generation (ours) some of us were lucky to be part of the core starting. Most of the time all players in the consumer movement that production materials. The origin of a commitment than passionate, for sure. And a need. Right to exercise power over the legitimacy of a particular generation, that of preserving the roots and stay the course. We're talking about Old School (meaning 2D games and rap "old") as opposed to mainstream success growing. Opposition to the 3D systematizing its beautiful graphics and soulless, innovations, and for the game without an affront to the relevant content, without demands, without creativity and full of samples of pop, to rap. Hardcore, old? (I'm talking about people who eat rap and / or video games for 30 years). ... And fortunately not all in fact, even if the opening does not mean abandoning the base!



In this video, AKH I am a little afraid to tell the truth ...


In writing? Rappers and columnists have their video game lot in common. The chronic
(c)? although of different shape, is one ... but it's not just that.

JM Destroy, Gollum, Rahan, Banasan, AHL, Matt Murdock, J'M destroy, shrimp and octopus jb, H. Falcon, Manga and Sempai (Jay) ... the chronic (c) markers have always been (historically) nicknames. Between the lines of "blazes" I see the Ice cube, Dr.Dre, Snoop Dogg or not you ...? current columnists, meanwhile, have a name and a surname ... Gollum today called: Julien C.; evolution? Must be that! Well, this rap is different, Bruno Lopez has not released an album that I know ...? The next "featuring" is also preserved. We support each other and in both media, culture as a cement passion as common. Thus it is not uncommon for a beginner columnist produce a text in the most experienced or that unlike most experienced, know the face. The rapper will do the same on an album or concert time for a clip of a show. Peer support, also works for those two. A "feat" in rap, can speak (for gaming) contribution ...

Finally, there is also, obviously, the productions that inspire each other. And, well beyond the sound effects and sampled from Street Fighter II present in parts of NTM and I AM, the links between rap and video games are multifarious and never interact. The rapper out of Parapa on the original PlayStation (one of the first rhythm game) to 50 Cent (the game ... rotten to the passage.). Thus, in GTA San Andreas you can listen to Dr. Dre while walking away. In Jet Set Radio, you can tag an entire city, it is even the goal of the game! Better yet, the walls of our cities, tagged yesterday by our rappers are now mosaic Space Invaders and other characters from video games.

"My life is not a video game," he said. And yet! Both arts have joined street appears
there! So that, even if fans of the first hour of these two cultures are much disgusted at the casual gameplay of Wii by producing rap now (that have no soul any Old School) and which is more akin to the variety and repetition only Hardcore. We must rejoice and stop all insults!

A generation has made rap made the game, the next was erected in the mass phenomenon, with enormous financial success ... so be it! It's perfect! To us all to continue to evolve and maintain these two cultures, ours. Without closing them. AKH finally give a good example? Well ... surely!

N. Thanks to Raphael B = (NEO LEGEND) for allowing me to use his photo with Guru and Solar. I would not have done without this article.

The Vinz (Carnivore)