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MC Solaar: "The reissue of my first albums frees me"

2021-09-16T14:48:20.031Z


INTERVIEW - "Who sows the wind reaps the tempo", "combat prose" and "heavenly" had been unavailable for twenty years due to disagreements between the singer and his record company. the opportunity to review his success at the time and his status as a pioneer of rap.


For twenty years, MC Solaar's first albums, which had contributed as much to his success as to his reputation, were nowhere to be found.

Not available on vinyl or CD, absent from streaming.

Deleted, except for those who had kept their original copy.

This followed a judgment of the industrial tribunal who had recognized that the artist's label had not respected the clauses of the contract.

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Confirmed by the Paris Court of Appeal in 2002, then by the Court of Cassation in 2004, this decision prohibited Polydor from continuing to use the artist's first four albums, the intellectual property of which it held.

Miraculously, an agreement has been found which allows

Qui seme le vent reap the tempo

,

Prose combat

and

Paradisiac

to be available again.

Meeting with a happy man, relieved to regain control over his own history.

LE FIGARO.

- How did you receive the news of the re-release of your first four albums?

MC Solaar.

-

I'm great

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Source: lefigaro

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