90s Music Monday

French hip-hop is sorely underrated in the US which, to paraphrase Messrs Le Sac and Pip, seems to forget that guns, bitches and bling were never part of the four elements and never will be.

So let me educate you.

Which was used to great effect in the final chase scene from the French film Taxi (note: that's not the cinematic abortion 'starring' Jimmy Fallon and Queen Latifah)

and if you dig the style then people to read up on include the band IAM and rapper MC Solaar.

French hip-hop is, I'd argue, more socially and politically fervent - most rappers are of Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian descent and the racism and oppression that they and the other post World War II immigrant families encountered.

Wikipedia has a surprisingly good article on it here which is well worth a read.

And by pointing you at that I've prevented myself from writing yet another sprawling, incoherent treatise shat from my brain like so much half baked verbal diarrhoea.  So that's ok then.