2023-08-17 10:33:53
Hip-hop songs arrived in Chad, with their strong rhythms, rhymes, heavy chains, and wide clothes from America, influenced by black artists, led by “MC. Hammer, ice cube”, inspiring the first generation that used this type of music in the late eighties. But the real beginning was through the Komplyss team, led by the absent MC Satan, Dred Slash, and Aimé Paleo. They made the Chadian public listen to hip-hop. These bands were influenced by a young man named MC Solar who was born in Dakar and studied in Paris and holds French citizenship, but he is of Chadian origin, his real name is Claude Mbaraleh and he gave impetus to rap songs in France by narrating his difficult life, and he left his country under the yoke of wars when he was just a child And he lived in the suburbs of Paris.
In the early 1990s, Solar recounted his life story in a song called “Move From Here.” In the same album, he sang a failed love story, titled it as the girl “Caroline” who would leave him in the slums and run away with a rich old man.
His song “Caroline” remained the most popular and listened to in Chad, until Jiclum Guy, who became known as Sultan, came and presented his song “War Child”… The beginning was exciting, a young man named Daigo Chadna, known as Dyson, who will establish the “Kamikaze” band to become The first Chadian hip-hop group to go to an international festival, they will perform at the African Arts and Performances Market Festival in Côte d’Ivoire in 1997. After that, Ndolacim and Dyson decided to stay in Senegal and found the band “Ayalat”, and in N’Djamena the French Institute chose to support members The two bands “Kambelis and Tibesti” were excluded from the other bands, so Takilal Ndulasim, Dyson and others decided to create another band that bore the name Génération 3R.
Sultan criticizes the warlords
In Chad following the nineties, and the beginning of the third millennium, tens of thousands of children under the age of eighteen were killed, in several civil wars that took place between the government and the numerous rebel movements, and in the Chadian-Libyan war. And when the song “War Child” was released, it was the actual embodiment of what happened and is happening in the country, a harsh criticism of the two parties and a call for peace and an end to violence. In general, hip-hop songs focused on criticism, mainly criticizing the government, focusing on the marginalized and the poor, and insulting the rich, in addition to songs that provided awareness to society. However, because there is a relationship between hip-hop and violence, the meetings of the members of the two bands ended in fights and the exchange of blows with sticks and bottles of alcohol.
In the year 2007, the Francophonie Organization established a section to support musicians. It organized “Anjam Hip-Hop”, a festival for hip-hop singers, where young people come to display their creativity, and the privileged get support from the Francophonie. The festival has become a meeting place for hip-hop lovers, and they are holding a party every week in the center Cultural “Baba Mustafa”. Last May, the cultural and artistic network For Formation and Francophone Recaf held the seventeenth edition of the festival, and the network used to hold this festival in order to choose the winner of the best rapper of the year, the best music producer and other awards.
Breakdancing and neighborhood wars
In 2008, following the battle of February 2, between the rebels and the government, and the killing of nearly a thousand Chadians inside the capital, I joined the “Break Dancing” group, all of whose members consist of one neighborhood, except for the coach. I lasted two months and it was exhausting, training, training and exercising on a daily basis until we get an athletic and flexible body that we can adapt to perform fast and difficult break dances… We listen daily to the rhythms of rapper Eminem, and watch Usher’s dances. They wanted to use the rhymes they got from Arabic poetry once morest other groups that we would compete with in competitions.
The writing is on the wall
In Chad, there were no wars of words on the walls between different groups or competition, as happened in Cameroon, because the Chadians used to resolve their differences through fights, wars, and death. Rather, the focus was on love in the graffiti revolution. Charcoal or chalk, then a wall that allows us to write praise or blame according to the state of love.
A girl’s name or the first letter of her name, then a heart pierced by an arrow, and at the other end the first letter of the writer’s name. But writing has turned into a way to harm the stubborn or treacherous girl, so her name is written and then the word prostitute in French, or Azaba, which means prostitute in Chadian Arabic.
Today, hip-hop is still the loudest in Chad among the types of music, due to its ability to express the tragedies and the reality of youth unemployment and the hopes of emigrating to Europe and moving away from this place.
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