Complicated morning for Roselyne Bachelot.
Guest on Tuesday of the
Culture Media program
on Europe 1, the Minister of Culture was interviewed by Philippe Vandel on the French team's hymn to Euro 2021,
Write my name in blue
, composed by rapper Youssoupha.
If the song is not, in itself, subject to controversy, the choice of the artist is contested while in his rap
Eternal recommencement
, released in 2006, he tells of his "
dream where [his] black seed is blistering this bitch from Marine Le Pen
”.
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Embarrassed in the headgear, Roselyne Bachelot declared that she
"had the text of the song"
created for the Euro carried
. "It's a hymn to the Blues and Youssoupha's hymn doesn't bother me at all
," she said.
“I really like Youssoupha, I went to several of his concerts,”
she added, cautious and much less enthusiastic than at the start of the program. The tension did not escape Philippe Vandel, who relaunched Roselyne Bachelot several times, arguing that the disputed song is much earlier than that composed for the Euro.
Sweeping aside the journalist's question, the minister stands in her position
"Me, I'm talking about Youssoupha and his song for the Blues"
, she hissed, saying she refused to
"enter into controversies"
.
“I think there are excesses in rap.
We know it.
It's also a way for rap to express itself, ”
she concluded.
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Used to excess language, the rapper has more than once questioned the Republic, the police, Marianne and justice in his texts.
"Fuck the proc ', fuck the protocol and
fuck
the police,"
he notably recalled in 2015 in
Chanson française
.