MC Solaar is one of the best French rappers and this record is awesome. In general, Solaar's lyrics are critical without being self-centered whining, too often the case with rappers. This keeps it interesting. Also, the lines are so smooth that you will enjoy it even if you don't speak French. Apart from the musical qualities, Solaar uses a big vocabulary, making his catalogue good passive language training.
This early disc is a little less cerebral, and a little less produced than his later efforts, for example the great Chapitre 7. It has a certain intensity to it that really moves. I recommend this disc in addition to chapitre 7, his latest, and Paradisiaque.
November 24, 2007 |  | The best French Rap CD ever recorded |  |
This is probably the best french rap disc ever recorded. The disc originally came out in 1994 which was probably one of the peak years for worldwide rap prodiction in terms of quality. This is the best album MC Solaar has ever recorded. If you like Dubmatique, French Affair, or numerous other groups in the past and present Quebec mainstream, you will love this one. Obsolete and Relations Humaines are especially good. This is one of the few CD's I've ever purchased in which every song on the disc is quality. I would recommend it to anyone. Even if you are not fluent in French you will be enhanced by the rythms.
June 4, 2005disregard the 1 star ratings as they are probably 1 star folk. heard this superb album the first time back in the good ole days of 1994 and still love it. all tracks good, some tracks are great. i still wonder why such talent can't make a spot on the charts here.
john in ny March 7, 2004
This is one incredible recording from an amazing talent. The beat is perfect, and this is simply the most elegant rapping in existence. Makes me want to learn the French language.
February 16, 2003Lovers Rock
~ Sade
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= The Greatest Sex Music Ever
Reviewer: bilbo from Seattle WA
Here is what I did: I took "Lover's Rock" and "Diamond Life" and "The Best of Sade" and "Seal" and a French Rap CD called "Prose Combat" by MC Solaar, put them all in my 5-CD changer and put it on automatic shuffle. I had this girl over for dinner who I met in a department store when I was downtown shopping. I got some oysters from the fish store, sliced 'em open on the half-shell, cracked open a bottle of Asti Spumante (that's Italian Champagne) and dimmed the lights. This whole scenario was straight out of this book I read called "9 Free Secrets of New Sensual Power" which is basically some kind of sex-memoir/instruction book for higher consciousness, that is DOPE! So she comes over and I light some candles, we start dancing to all that Sade music and that killer-sexy French rap (that the guy in the book also turned me onto,) and one thing just naturally led to another, just like it said he would -- and that's basically all I can say in this "family" environment, except that I WORSHIP Sade! She is God's gift to guys who want to get l--d! January 16, 2003
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