"I say, I can say others," warned Gims Saturday night in "What an era!" on France 2. The rapper opened the ball of the talk show carried by Léa Salamé, Christophe Dechavanne and Philippe Caverivière. In this 30th issue, the artist revealed himself on his personal history, his career without hesitating to return to some controversies, more or less recent such as that on the pyramids generating electricity.
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By way of introduction, the presenter recalled that her guest's first solo album was released just ten years ago. Transition found, Léa Salamé reiterated the eternal question on the glasses of the singer. "Will we ever see you without?" she asked. To which he retorted, as usual, that his glasses guaranteed him total anonymity outdoors. Insistent, the journalist even went so far as to question him about his daily life with his horse. "Do you shower with it? Do you have sex with it?" she asked. Neither offended nor hilarious, Gims simply replied with a smile that he was obviously taking them off.
A deal between EDF and Egypt since 2000?
The childhood and adolescence of the man whose civilian name is Gandhi have been discussed at length. From his arrival in France at the age of two to the numerous expulsions of his family. "We lived from squat to squat. I remember the policemen and bailiffs breaking down the door," he said. They slapped my mother, handcuffed on the ground with one knee to her temple." A violent daily life that he also shared with dealers and drug addicts without giving in to vice as "he was absorbed by his destiny".
Launched by several jokes of Paul de Saint-Sernin, Léa Salamé took the opportunity to question Gims on the recent controversy of pyramids and electricity. Last March, in an interview with Oui Hustle on Youtube, the rapper explained that the Egyptians had electricity thanks to the gold at the top of the pyramids. "They were damn antennas, historians know it," he said. A conspiracy theory that the guest wanted to contextualize. "I gave an interview of almost 2 hours, this passage was less than two minutes. I used it to give an example concerning Africa," he argued, considering this country "exciting and mysterious". Léa Salamé then gave him the opportunity to repeat his remarks. A pole half seized by the artist who admits "not being able to affirm his words" while insisting that it "remains a theory". A situation that did not prevent to laugh the one who calls himself "the electrician" and to joke, telling "that EDF speaks of 2000 years of association with them".
On the other hand, Gims took the opportunity to make a mea culpa on the controversy that had swelled in 2021 on the "Happy New Year". At the time, the rapper, of Muslim faith, had asked his fans not to wish him happy holidays, Christmas, or New Year's Eve and that it was necessary to "stay strong on their values". "I shouldn't have made this video, I'm sorry. My parents are Christians and were shocked by my remarks," he admitted, even admitting that he wanted to erase it. "The timing was not good," he concluded, without ruling out the possibility that "there will still be mistakes."
