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BLACKMAP
14/09/2003

With "Public Enemy", they are THE hip-hop made in the USA who with texts politically incorrect fight for awareness. Followed by the interview, an unpublished document signed by the singer himself. To you, Internet, to find out by clicking here! Went to meet an "African consciousness", I found a young man, eternal fighter, calm, although in his life and in his sneakers. A few minutes of patience and appears before us, M-1, accompanied by his assistants and Mbegane Ndour, the proponent African Consciences. He crosses the lobby of the hotel like a cat. His radiant smile makes me immediately at ease. You say I was anxious, it would be an understatement. I'm basically speaking, quoiqu'anglophile amateur. Also, the motto "African revolution" (african rising) with someone who bathes in this concept since her childhood was not a foregone conclusion, put yourself in my place! "Do not worry, I'm happy! Today's youth are not sufficiently familiar with the struggles freedoms for black sixties. Although some claim it, really know the subject? We must therefore address this. " The tone is set, I am reassured. It does not take me rigor. Here we go ...

BlackMap: If I asked you who you are?

M-1: I am 31 years recently and I'm M-1 to the middle, but in truth, few people Mutulu know my name. I know for a fact where I come I come down from the motherland, Africa, like all people of color. Sorry, but I've always lived in the USA.

About Africa, there are you already gone?

Yes, of course! We were in South Africa and Botswana. We hope very soon we will travel to West Africa, specifically in the Gambia, Senegal and Nigeria, where we are invited by friends.

Would you like Marcus Garvey advocated a return to routine for all blacks in Africa?

I think what he says is its importance today. The United States of Africa is the inevitable solution. This is an incredible force! My brother can imagine, all blacks throughout the world, back on mother earth. Each with their skills, knowledge and ability to serve for the construction and production of the continent. You can imagine how we could represent ? The first power!

I say Africa, what comes into your mind first?

What I see is the promised land of Eden. At the same time, I can not forget slavery, colonialism, wars, famines and diseases that are decimating populations.

Now about Dead Prez. How did the group, where do you get that name and what does it?

(He thinks) If I remember correctly, it was over sixteen. You know, it's very hard to be Black in the USA. Sticman, my partner and myself, for many years, we had a course of activists who led us to travel extensively. In these travels, we followed the precepts of Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey and other leaders of the Black Revolution. Next, we studied this extensively and completed this training revolution in the social sciences and the study of our true history.

Only after that we decided to put our energy into our control and therefore our musical inspiration. This is how Dead Prez was born, my brother! This name, we did not find it was he who found us. It originates in the essence of our motto. We meet near death. We are fighting for mere necessities, food, clothing, shelter, short, respect.

We are aware that the outcome of this battle seems dead ahead. It means, literally, kill the destructive power. That means removing the chairs and oppressive governments and oppressive, first Bush and his team.

Talking African Consciences and your cooperation with Mbegane N'Dour ...

For me, it's not just a deal. It is a social and political project that provides around the world, from Jamaica via France, Great Britain, Mali and Cameroon, a real power base in Africa through music. In African Consciences, we must remember one question: "Who are we? . This is the main idea.

How did you meet with Mbegane N'Dour? And what did you like this project?

Two years ago or so, he came to me in my house in Brooklyn, it's not a joke. Do not they say that great minds think alike? (Laughs) We had mutual friends. They put us in contact. After everything was done naturally.

This project was bound to seduce me. The message, "Africa for Africans" and that they become aware, was far beyond my expectations. It corresponded to what I aspired. Also, to see the other participants, I could not be better.

( The TV shows over the American Jerome Young, the new world champion in the 400 meters kissing his medal. He smiled proudly, but displays a weird mine . I would )

Do you think the black American athletes of today can still express their demands ...

( He will not let me finish ... and laughs) You're a vicious! You mean Mexico? Without being bad language, they can not. They can not until they joined the African Consciences. This is important for all of us here in France, USA, Africa. We must study the African Consciences, the African revolution, we are athletes, artists, journalists, etc..

Forty years after the death of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and other prominent figures, what lesson did you learn from their struggle? What would be your message?

First, they have not disappeared. They are still there (he touches his heart), inside of us. Their heritage, organization, determination and the connection between all blacks in the world should we serve today.

We must study the past we will not comply. He must serve us instead of locomotive and allow us to build our own future. I have only one message, blacks should create their own leaders and, as we feel oppressed, to Malcolm X.

We must remain in place and well soldered. For example if Black French engage in the revolution, those of the Americas should be able to help them. It is the internationalization of Africa that is to say Black's is the goal advocated by African Consciences.

Are there other African personalities who inspire you?

Of course! Captain Thomas Sankara. What inspires me, Wow! Like Patrice Lumumba, Sekou Toure, Kwame Krumah, the real revolution of mother earth, awareness, self-determination ... Dignity.

Finally, if I tell BlackMap?

With such a name - you can ask Mbegane - I wanted to meet you. For me it is not just a media. You know, our people are everywhere, do not forget. We must learn to leave his country, learning to part with them because your feet can take you where a heart, a conscience may be telling you to wait.

is this onerous mission is yours, and our people, wherever they are, must find his lantern to guide him and show him the way to the promised land. You are the vital link connecting ...

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BLACKMAP
14/12/2004

M is p Remi looks roots attitude, authentic and disillusioned, as we like to Young side a trifle shy anxious and bohemian, more like a student of literature as a star, my second, dreadlocks and big retro glasses black for the lazy side of the black-thinker but look out, it does not belong to the family of "wankers". And my third, a head full of songs and melodies full fingers. My everything, a young man any more unknown-become the main objective of Epic in 2001 in the right thread of what has preceded : To occupy the center stage, which was confirmed on 16 / 12 / 2004 at the Zenith in Paris.

Who is he?

Tete-guide Wolof name that comes from his godfather, Casamance was born in Dakar on 25/07/1975. At a time when the draft of the High Authority against Discrimination happens to the French National Assembly and that opens the debate on diversity, the young artist is a leader in this fight because it is the materialization of the third generation to be considered right or wrong-like mutt, the mongrel culture or simply "non-identity."

To listen to his songs, yet it is believed guess an evocation of belonging, whisper a reminder of his roots, blowing the pace of his childhood, he does is nothing, it is even exactly the opposite. "I do not claim anything" he likes to repeat, it is on the road, a journey itself. Despite his size and color lord of Africa, it has very little to do with Africa because of contact with the black community (Afro-Caribbean).

He comes from nowhere, a Senegalese father and a mother Caribbean, built between the South East, Bordeaux and Saint-Dizier, a town industrial, gloomy and sinister, speaking neither Wolof nor Creole, he feels both abroad and at home everywhere. Nevertheless, his mother a doctor, a good woman, without cutting its offspring of their origins, are sent on holiday in Africa and the Caribbean gives them an education and therefore under the influence Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tom Waitt ...

So you could easily believe that he is a wild boy. Now it just carefully cultivated the art of erasure. Les Halles in Montreuil, neighborhoods that likes to roam, perched on his scooter, it blends perfectly with the decor.

The beautiful story

At sixteen, he plunges into music by an unfortunate combination of circumstances. Each legend has its dose of anecdotes, such as Julio Iglesias, the beautiful story begins with an accident and a plastered leg a few days before his birthday. What would be a bummer was the trigger. He received a gift of a acoustic guitar which became his only companion during these dark hours.

Perfect self-taught, apart from some reminiscences of his courses in violin and music theory at the age of seven or eight years, he began some "compound" and form a group with friends from high school .

For this gifted, the region that foams with his band quickly became cramped. After a tank and three B years of graduate studies at the University of Nancy, he took a sabbatical-why? - "The air of nothing and thirst to discover!

This beautiful story of Nancy Street recording studios like, "the air of nothing," a fairy tale version of the twenty-first century, it could also be reflected in the stories of Salinger , Kerouac ... those travelers who have, brilliantly evoking the fascination of the road. Because after scouring the bars of his region, Tete down in Paris where, despite moments galley, it holds up through the "scratch".

This period of maid's room and "scratching" it left a taste for poetry kitchen with Anglo-Saxon influences. When we find clear and catchy melodies, blues guitar, folk and soulful voice, it is believed first to have heard somewhere, actually on the side of the Beatles or Bob Dylan.

To those who imagine it all mad and crazy, living in a dilapidated squat and making the rounds of bars interlopers a firecracker in his mouth are sadly mistaken. It is not a party animal, but rather a loner who spends his time playing music, reading, writing, drawing and cooking.

And those who, for their happiness, they heard an unreleased masterfully interpret, Redemption song, do not miss the stamp to the urban legend of the early Third Millennium: Black Cool prefabricated in a lab at the Plaine Saint-Denis PROMOTE.

This would be a cliche. It has nothing ufo a marketing image reworked. Above all, it's a true artist. With his dreadlocks and his glasses back, Tete excel with its simplicity. The frank smile and easy touch, his strength, undoubtedly comes from his contact with the public he went to see a closer look. The scene, he knows it to and fro. It has not locked up in a castle in Dammarie-les-Lys or applied for a breakthrough star, with his guitar slung over his shoulder, he has toured his bowler hat in the hexagonal bar to build his tower of song and install repertoire (since 1998 more than 180 dates the counter). It immediately shows that it does not take the lead despite his meteoric ascent. He knows where he comes from and remains lucid.