A seasoned MC with punchlines as sharp as a well-placed bad faith, a keyboard-saxophonist fed on Neo-soul, and a bass-drums duo with multiple influences decide one day to stop respecting the boundaries of genres. Bad news for purists: they’re demolishing them with method.
Add to this joyous enterprise Djé’s almost indecent ability to navigate between rap and vocals without asking permission, and you get a nimble cocktail where hip-hop, neo-soul and funk cohabit surprisingly well – proving that, with a little intelligence, it can work.
Djé’s love of the good word, his finely-crafted lyrics and his ability to blend the classicism of The Roots with the modernity of Orelsan, are an obvious source of inspiration. His compositions are the fruit of his multiple influences – and those of his acolytes – slowly fused together by hard work, passion and a few pointless but necessary debates. Pieces that, by dint of collective creation, are now no longer “his”, but theirs.
