Black had kept the address of his secret boxing fight. For weeks on his social networks, including his Instagram account followed by 2.8 million subscribers, the rapper had announced to embark on a new English boxing career. And to embark on the big bath of combat sports, he had to face this Friday evening, in a room in the North of Paris, the young fighter of MMA Bemba, 20 years older. The meeting is therefore given to a handful of journalists. The event is also announced live on its YouTube channel.
A little after 9:30 p.m., a few hundred people are waiting for the moment of combat. Except that the ring of barely three square meters seems to be undersized for a real meeting. A funny dimension starting to allow a doubt about the announced course of the evening. After a security has dropped the first rows for long minutes in this armored basement of Instagrammers ready to immortalize the beginnings of Black M in the ring, the light goes out. And the artist arrives while running, huge XXL hooded sweatshirt on his head and surrounded by around thirty hip-hop musicians chanting “sweater up, sweater up”. In music.
The song is unprecedented, from rap to the classic invoice, led by the flow and the energy of Black M. Once the title finished, the 40 -year -old artist seizes a small sheet and begins to read a speech. The public begins to understand. And if this match was not really one. After all, the extremely generous buffet was more reminiscent of those of the evenings for an album release than for a meeting of noble art. The brand new room, decorated with very Instagrammable neon lights also has club tunes, that is good. The atmosphere is there.
“You wonder all what’s going on”
“Yes, I know it, I see it in your eyes, you wonder all what happens,” he says in a speaking in a solemn tone. Tonight, we were supposed to see Black M putting or eating chaos. But Black M is there in the process of making you a speech and you cannot ask to be reimbursed, you have not paid anything. (…) For a few years, many have been asking me where I am musically, I stopped or take a break. I have never stopped, but I’m going to tell you the truth, the music is hard, it’s hard to be at the top and especially to stay it. After weeks of excitement, I announce that I come back, in particular by nod to combat sport, to noble art. I have the honor to present you the first single sweater up, from a new album wheel to come. There will be no fight. Let the evening start, “he ends up while trying to chant” sweater up “with his dancers.
From His participation last year in “Dance with the stars” on TF1the rapper of the assault sexion had no longer given any news, sharing only a few stories on his social networks. “Big Black M”, one of his many nicknames, was actually in the studio and is now working without a record company, after spending years on contract with Sony Music, then in the TF1 label.
“I have lots of sounds, lots of models, I don’t stop,” he confides after this surprise. I wanted to musically long enough and I am now 100 %self -production. Now that I am completely independent, I decide my music, I make my decisions with my little team, my manager Mariama and my wife Léa, in particular. I am my own artistic director now. It is a choice because I am much freer. I resume everything in my hand. And I had the idea of this false fight only a week ago. I have been throwing songs for years and people are not necessarily paying attention. There, it is a way to put light on what Black does. So everyone wanted to see me made me break my mouth but in fact, what I do is music. »»
And to conclude: “In recent years, I have been asked a lot if I have stopped music, when I have never stopped. While there are just ups and downs in a career. And there, the album arrives at the end of the year, or early next year. In the meantime, I also have a festival tour this summer, I was appointed culture ambassador to Guinea and I even have a festival project there. In short, it does not unemployment. »»
