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"Private culture is collapsing", Akhenaton sounds the alarm

2021-04-07T13:16:53.730Z


Coming to present a new rebellious poem on France Inter, the Marseille rapper makes a sad report of the current world and evokes a cultural environment tested by the pandemic.


Fifteen after the release of

The end of their world

, a long 10-minute rap logorrhea on the societal and environmental state of the planet, Akhenaton once again puts his pen to the service of his ideals.

Hunger for their world

, a new poem written by the rapper and published by

L'Iconoclaste

, thus draws up a chilling observation of our contemporaries.

Invited in the morning of France Inter, the founder of the IAM group took the opportunity to support his remarks.

Read also: The big doubts of Doctor Akhenaton and Mister BHL on the coronavirus epidemic

"

For me, we are at the heart of a civilizational crisis

", regretted the rapper from Marseille.

We often talk about a health crisis, but in this poem I wanted to show that everything is linked like a chain.

Sometimes people have the impression that everything is separate, that the economy is separate from the social.

I think everything fits,

”he explained.

And for the Marseillais, "

a collapsing society always begins by seeing its culture collapsing

".

Asked about the state of his profession as an artist in this period of pandemic, abandoned by the government according to many observers, he wanted to sound an alarm bell.

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I think private culture is collapsing.

We must distinguish between the two: the culture subsidized and validated by the State does not have too many problems, while we private people who have been trying to work for a year, it is impossible.

There are misunderstandings in the current crisis

", he declared, mentioning the inequality between the French vision of"

noble work

","

that where one suffers

", and that of the artists, to whom one asks for help. 'stop "

complaining

".

Akhenaton will participate in the test concert organized in his city.

At 52, Philippe Fragione (his real name) is still aware of the challenges of his time: “

There are many things that revolt me, human beings should react to dangers with solidarity.

People are their own medium with social media and that's something to worry about

.

It feels like we're not in control when we can.

When you have convictions, you direct your consumption,

”added the man, brought up by his mother's communist ideas, but himself acknowledging that he was part of this ambivalence between anger and the comfort provided by modern society.

Source: lefigaro

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