2024-10-27 22:51:00
This documentary, broadcast on Auvio and soon on Tipik, aims to celebrate the roots and developments of Belgian rap, offering a mosaic of human stories, struggles and triumphs. The series highlights these sometimes little-known actors who contributed to forging this musical culture. All these Belgian rap artists were part of a common energy. To the point of becoming, today, a laboratory for the diversity of the current French rap scene.
In making this documentary, Akro and his team (director Rob Knudsen) even claim to have encountered challenges similar to those of the artists they represent, including a lack of resources and a certain institutional distrust: contempt for the media or music houses. records before the internet changed things. This project is therefore intended to be a tribute to the vivacity and diversity of Belgian rap, highlighting the obstacle course of these survivors (including the sacrificed generation) and the importance of all voices in this culture. “Alone we go faster, together we go further“, says Rayer, member of the group De Puta Madre.
Injuries still very “rapping”
“The problem with success is that people know you and you don’t. says James Deano (The Commissioner’s Son, White People Can’t Dance) in Timeline. And that’s atrocious.”
The real feat of this documentary series is to have also been able to pinpoint the wounds and collateral damage of this success of Belgian rap vindicator and rebel who came late. But who had produced real stars like James Deano, Scylla and Gandhi nicknamed… the “uncrowned kings”. Because the French are either mocked or defeated by the pressure of show business. “It wasn’t easy for me to see people like Benny B or Stromae succeed like that when it could also have been me.”concludes the rapper-kicker from Waterloo who had managed to mix humor into his punchlines. It is therefore not insignificant to find him today among the actors of the Grand Cactus.
But a success which could also be somewhat envied. A pioneer without knowing it, Benny B lets loose like never before in this series. Very moved to have “seen his life go by so quickly“, at the end of this Friday’s preview at the Kinepolis cinema in Brussels, he nevertheless assures that he has “no regrets”. We learn in fact that he had not been warned by his friends of a casting… which ultimately propelled him to the rank of rap star and becoming the discipline’s first millionaire.
“Timeline”, the documentary series that tells the story of Belgian rap
Same story with DJ Daddy K, his ex-sidekick, when we talk to him about his relationship with rapper Sahli aka Défi J. “This are wounds that are there permanentlyconfesses the one who has just been inducted into the DMC Hall of Fame. I lost a dear friend, and unfortunately, he was part of the collateral damage. I made a choice, I left the group BRC (Brussels Rap Convention) to go with Benny and Perfect. It’s my personal choice, I didn’t want him to stop being his friend. It’s also his choice not to come back to me and I respect him. Today, everyone has the career they have. I am a caring person, my door is wide open and we can chat. We’re adults.” Before specifying this. “We are both part of the same story. No hard feelings on my side. Maybe more on his side, unfortunately, but I’m willing to try to iron these things out. Why not get along in the end? It’s just music, we have the same passion and we come from the same place. We understand each other.”
And to conclude a bit like in “Timeline”. A series which talks about rap as “a team sport”, a resourceful environment and which is inspired from generation to generation. “Even if it revives old stories, it’s part of history, Daddy K tells us. Not everything is rosy. There are great moments and others that are more complicated. It’s part of a career and it is what it is.”
1730091588
#Timeline #Belgian #history #rap #captivating #documentary #series #epic #rap #culture #Belgium
