France has long been the largest market for rap outside of the US but it has been noticeably absent from the country's mainstream awards. The first awards ceremony in France for rap, R&B and Afrobeats ...

French authorities have pulled the plug on a popular rap star’s show during war commemorations in the town of Verdun after a clamour of criticism, notably from far-rightists who said the singer’s ...

To mark 50 years of hip hop, FRANCE 24’s culture team has recorded three special shows in New York – the birthplace of the culture. In part four of the series we’re in Paris, because France is the ...

Francois Hollande is to hire gangsta rap expert, Pierre Evil aka Pierre-Yves Bocquet as his new speech writer. Reuters/Amazon Facing the lowest approval rates for a president in modern French history, ...

This is a small section of a far longer text about music, called "Some Musical Notes" which was originally published on the old endangered phoenix site. It was published at the beginning of 2006. " ...