I Rap Therefore I Am (1999) [N/A]
Release Date:
January 1, 1999
Original Title:
Je rap donc je suis
Alternate Titles:
Ich Rappe Also Bin Ich
Genres:
Documentary | Music
Production Companies:
CPB Films
La Compagnie Panoptique
La Sept-Arte
Production Countries:
France
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 73
Rap ? Violent words, a social chronicle without complacency at a time of the politically correct and a wishywashy consensus. Twenty years after its first babblings in the popular quarters of New York, rap has imposed its presence beyond the borders. Je rap donc je suis (I Rap Therefore I Am) goes around five different towns where it meets rappers driven by the same motivation. In Paris and its suburbs, Marseille and its districts, Algiers, London or Berlin, rappers move, play, record, teach... And above all, they talk. Outside of any promotional context, the present-day heralds of French hip-hop, from La Rumeur to IAM, speak about the role of rap, the environment in which it was born, boredom, the feeling of belonging to a sacrificed generation, drugs in districts of towns, immigration, parents, political and social actors, the police, school, writing, money, the parallel economy, violence...