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A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY
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It's very hard to pigeonhole me.
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I'll be the first African
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and the first urban rapper and singer
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to have played the Stade.
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I'm the one that even the rich wanna buy!
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What were the chances of it?
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ONE YEAR EARLIER.
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-Daddy, you draw too fast.
-Oh, yeah?
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-No, but...
-Yeah.
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MARRAKESH, GIMS' HOME.
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When you draw,
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you get a feeling of freedom.
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I escape through my drawing.
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I was in art school. I wanted to draw.
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I wanted to live in Tokyo.
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I wanted to eat noodles.
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I never imagined success like this.
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If it was up to me, I wouldn't sing.
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I was like,
"I want to draw. That's my way."
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Daddy, can you draw Mommy after?
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GIMS IS THE MOST PLAYED ARTIST
ON FRENCH RADIO.
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HE'S SOLD FIVE MILLION ALBUMS.
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HIS LAST SHOW TOURED IN EUROPE, AFRICA,
THE MIDDLE EAST, ASIA AND NORTH AMERICA.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2018
THE DAY BEFORE THE NRJ MUSIC AWARDS.
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THE BIGGEST MUSIC SHOW IN FRANCE.
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One day to go until the NRJ Music Awards.
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Then the tour begins on November 17th
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and ends on September 28th, 2019
at the Stade de France.
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Stade de France!
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Hey, guys, well done!
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Five, six, seven.
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I gave you my all, yeah
Gave you my all, yeah
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Gave you my all, gave you my all
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OK. Know what?
I'll just follow your movements.
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Yeah.
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You gotta handle success
as best you can.
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Success doesn't only affect you.
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It affects your family
and everyone around you.
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It's business sprinkled with fantasy,
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but it's a cut-throat world.
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Shooting live ammo!
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You got actors. You got characters.
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I am one of those characters.
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The truth is, we don't know each other.
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-Hi, how's it going?
-Champion!
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What's up?
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-Okay?
-Always an honor. Cool.
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-It's a pleasure.
-Thanks.
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Showbiz can destroy you.
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You can end up in the madhouse.
You can lose everything.
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If you're too sentimental,
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I think it can be dangerous.
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How are you, my man?
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Good to see some real, sincere people
in this showbiz world.
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At last, sincere people!
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-So, how's it going? Cool?
-Fine.
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Showbiz.
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-Thanks. Thank you.
-Thank you.
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I keep thinking
about what they said on TV.
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-"After Rihanna..."
-After, yeah.
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"...and her performance
of 'Russian Roulette' in 2010,
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this is the second
most expensive performance
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in NRJ Music Awards history."
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Crazy.
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Incredible.
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Honestly.
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He's a record-breaking artist.
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He is the greatest music lover.
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He is the greatest hit maker.
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The thing that makes him stand out
is his famous sunglasses!
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They helped him build a character
for himself.
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MORNING OF THE CEREMONY.
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You know all about his journey,
have heard all of his records.
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Ceinture Noire, his last album,
just crossed a milestone
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of 500,000 records sold
in six months.
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AWARDED TO MAÎTRE GIMS
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When you get signed by a label,
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they welcome you with applause
and all that, champagne.
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But if your album doesn't sell,
they send you an email:
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"We're canceling your contract. Bye!
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But let's meet for brunch
in a couple of days!"
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That's what I mean
when I say "this damned showbiz."
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You have to make the choice
to put friendships aside.
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He's someone who keeps showbiz
and his real life separate.
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There isn't a single day
when GIMS doesn't make jokes and laugh.
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That's how he really is.
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He's joking around, making fun of himself,
laughing with people.
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But when he is GIMS, he's someone else.
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When he puts his glasses on,
he's someone else.
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Putting on his sunglasses
is like putting on a work uniform.
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He takes out his heart
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and goes to work.
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A FEW HOURS BEFORE THE CEREMONY.
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This really is... my tour jacket.
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I'm surprised his image works so well
in France.
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He's a show-off.
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On Instagram, you can see
he has plenty of money. He shows it.
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What's that?
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He flies by private jet.
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He wears clothes
that cost more than my house.
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He's a successful man, which is great,
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but most of the time,
it doesn't appeal to French people.
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France likes Zidane,
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who doesn't show off, doesn't say much,
who's shy and reserved.
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That's a French star!
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-You show up with a cigar!
-Isn't that over-the-top?
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They'll say, "We're not voting for him!"
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So, I'm quite surprised,
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because he has a lot of things
that people usually don't like,
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but people love him.
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There's enough charisma, I think.
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It rocks.
But the jacket's too small. I dunno.
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There's this weird paradox
where people hold something against you,
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but they want to see it
at the same time.
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The press will be like,
"GIMS, please! Over here!"
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It reminds me of Zlatan Ibrahimović
when he came to Paris.
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We'd rarely seen anyone so arrogant.
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But the French liked that.
It was Zlatan!
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Black jeans, good makeup,
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black T-shirt, chain.
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Truth is, people wanna keep dreaming,
keep wondering:
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"Will we get to see his eyes?"
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But if ever I take off my sunglasses,
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they'll say,
"You shouldn't have taken them off."
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I think he sees himself
as a manga character,
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steering his career a bit
like a manga character.
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His name is Maître GIMS.
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That's really the name
of a manga character.
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That's where people struggle
to see the difference between...
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the artist and the man.
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I'll be like this in the photos.
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No animals were harmed!
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It's been done.
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-It's like your music video for "Corazon."
-Yeah.
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There's nothing particularly wild.
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No, not especially.
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-So, people won't be surprised.
-Yeah.
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She cuts through the madness.
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She's radical.
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"It's lame. It's been done.
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That jacket looks ratty."
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She's really... involved.
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It annoys me that we aren't ready.
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We should have looked
at this stuff before.
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You aren't someone who... You see?
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I could've gotten you a fur.
That's hot.
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Maître GIMS is...
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It's easy!
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I think it's important for him
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to have an image that matches
the lifestyle we try to show off
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and the evolution of his character,
because, for me, GIMS is a character.
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GIMS is bold, which I like,
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because I think only a handful of people
can get away with this
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in today's French art scene.
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And if I believe something is bad
for him or his image, I will say so.
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That's what I need: sincerity,
people who are objective.
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That's super important.
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Because you can be doing something,
and everyone's like, "That's great!"
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But those people don't know a thing,
or they aren't objective or sincere.
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-Without my glasses, they're not sure.
-Come on. There are cameras.
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-I'll play the bodyguard.
-Yeah, do that.
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Get back, please. Sorry, excuse me.
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That's it. This way, Beyoncé. Come on.
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Let's go this way.
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Sorry, we need some air.
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Excuse me.
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Sorry, not allowed.
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Sorry.
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Excuse me.
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Let us breathe!
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-We're being followed.
-You know what will happen?
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-We'll take everyone with us?
-They'll all stay out front.
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I don't have my glasses on.
People are going to film me.
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I don't like it.
I don't feel comfortable here.
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It's not a real exchange with people.
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Keep moving. Don't stop.
If I stop, I'm dead.
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White stuff in the middle. No!
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Can I have a photo with you?
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People just want a photo with you.
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You don't feel like a human being anymore.
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You don't feel like a human being.
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You're in a cage, and people
are watching you and filming you.
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You hear them whispering.
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But that's part of the game. I accept it.
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-Yeah, that's it.
-Not bad, huh?
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Yeah, classy.
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I'm wondering how to get back
to the hotel.
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Maybe we should get a car.
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Not bad, huh? It'll get people talking.
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Some say it's the Congolese part of us.
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That Congolese people like bling
and showing off.
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Maybe it's because we had so little
that we now want to flaunt it.
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But I also know him
when he's not playing his character.
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He's very, very unassuming.
You wouldn't believe it.
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I mean...
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you see a character
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that's nothing like GIMS,
that's the total opposite of GIMS.
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But he is those two opposites.
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He's both.
Sometimes bling, sometimes discreet.
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Sometimes he sings, sometimes he raps.
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Hi. I don't have much time, sorry.
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Okay?
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While walking?
Can we do it while we're walking?
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-Oh, my God. I love you.
-Thanks.
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-Thanks.
-Thank you.
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There were so many people!
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You have to put on the character.
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Maybe you're feeling sad,
you've had bad news or something,
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but no!
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You belong to the people.
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So, if they want a photo,
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you give them one.
If you don't, you're a bastard.
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NOVEMBER 10, 2018
NRJ MUSIC AWARDS CEREMONY.
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Maître GIMS climbing the stairs tonight.
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We're talking and laughing
like we're in the 'hood.
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Talking and stuff...
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"Yeah, dude. I like your threads!"
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"Yeah, right!"
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And then you hear,
"Dadju! GIMS! A photo, please!"
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So, you go and play the star,
in character, you know?
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American-style.
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Showbiz!
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Show business!
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Okay, dude?
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Maître GIMS!
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I like to win. I like victory.
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GIMS IS NOMINATED IN FOUR CATEGORIES.
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HE DOESN'T WIN ANY AWARDS.
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Yes, of course it's a pain.
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People who say otherwise are bitter
or have never won anything,
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so they say, "Winning isn't what counts."
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And so on, and so on.
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Purists! That's why I don't like purists.
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And the winner is...
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-And the winner is...
-Dadju!
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DADJU WINS
FRANCOPHONE BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR.
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Yeah!
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Thank you.
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I was really happy when the kid won.
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Dadju had to be the breakthrough artist.
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Because he was the breakthrough.
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No one else.
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Today, there's no one!
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No one can say a word!
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No one!
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If he'd lost, I'd have been mad.
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Coming back by private jet!
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At that moment,
it's like a mini World Cup. You've won!
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JULY 16, 2019
GIMS SHOOTS A MUSIC VIDEO WITH STING.
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When you've started from nothing,
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it seems crazy to be with these people,
singing with them,
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people who have made their mark
on history.
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The Nutella has to go
right to the edge,
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so you can't see any bread at all.
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It's folded. It's stuffed. It's loaded.
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Say "bismillah" as a blessing and eat.
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How's it going? Okay?
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-Yeah, a bit...
-Police!
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-I heard you're feeling a bit sick?
-Sick.
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STING
ARTIST
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For those people to notice you,
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that means you've done stuff
to attract their attention.
266
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They rarely do something
with somebody who's just starting out.
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We need space for the camera!
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Everyone out, please!
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ALBUM RE-RELEASE
CEINTURE NOIRE
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Tell me if I'm okay.
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My first name is Gandhi,
and my family name is Djuna. Djuna Gandhi.
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I have a brother named Trésor,
another named Bijou.
273
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There are people named Glorytogod,
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Goodadventure.
The Congolese are the best with names.
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I think I got off lightly with Gandhi.
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My dad named me Gandhi
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because he really liked him.
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I've always been a bit of an orator,
always been able to motivate people.
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I realized that quite early on.
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Names matter.
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They say that children, people,
wear their names.
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I think that's true.
283
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It's helped me a lot.
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YOLO NEIGHBORHOOD.
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I was born in Kinshasa
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in 1986.
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That was during the time of Mobutu.
288
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I "discovered," so to speak,
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my native land quite late,
in a concert with Sexion d'Assaut.
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That was the first time I went back,
a few years ago now.
291
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That first time was quite a shock.
292
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It's always weird to think
that this is your real home.
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You're really in your real home.
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You're with your people.
You were born here.
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These are people of your race,
of your ethnicity,
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your country, your city...
That's really something.
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I have to go back to Yolo.
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It's symbolic.
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That's where I tottered around,
bare-assed, at the age of two.
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Like Winnie the Pooh,
with a t-shirt,
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with my fat little belly.
302
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You think,
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"This is where it all began, right here.
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I walked along here. The house was here.
I want to be back here right now.
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I want to plant myself
right on this spot."
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SEPTEMBER 2017
RETURN TO THE CONGO.
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GIMS RETURNS TO HIS CHILDHOOD NEIGHBORHOOD
FOR THE FIRST TIME.
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We're going to the 'hood,
my childhood neighborhood.
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-Yolo?
-Yes.
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Hear the news!
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GIMS has returned!
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GIMS isn't just talk! He acts!
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Hear the news!
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It was a challenge to go back.
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It was a gamble.
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And it made a big impression on me.
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We, the people of Yolo,
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they used to call us
"the people of Dallas,"
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after the TV show.
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DJUNA DJANANA
FATHER
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They'd call me Bobby, Bobby Ewing...
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back then.
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My memories of Kinshasa as a small kid
are just little flashes.
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I can't even say for sure
325
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if they're dreams or sounds. I don't know.
326
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-GIMS, come here. GIMS.
-Yes?
327
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Stay in the car
and get on the running board.
328
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,240
-On the running board?
-Wave to the front and back, okay?
329
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Okay, go ahead.
330
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Thank you.
331
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Hear the news!
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Hear the news!
333
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GIMS has returned!
334
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GIMS isn't just talk! He acts!
335
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,560
They made that song up themselves
336
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to celebrate my return.
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It was like a homage to me.
338
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Thank you!
339
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Next year, I'll do a free concert
at the Stade des Martyrs.
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I repeat...
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00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,200
Next year, I'll do a free concert
at the Stade des Martyrs.
342
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,080
Free, okay?
343
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:12,720
Thank you.
344
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Thank you.
345
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Thank you, Yolo.
346
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Thank you so much.
347
00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:31,680
I felt self-conscious.
I didn't know what to do.
348
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:33,200
It was a bit embarrassing.
349
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,880
I was embarrassed. I was at a loss.
350
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,520
Thank you.
351
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:41,040
Thanks a lot.
352
00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:45,000
Take a photo.
Come and have a photo taken.
353
00:24:56,360 --> 00:25:00,240
Nobody could've imagined
that today he'd be the French number one.
354
00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:03,840
But we could've expected that,
like his dad,
355
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,720
he'd be carrying the music gene
in his DNA,
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00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:09,240
the music bug.
357
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:20,480
At that time,
my dad was a star in the Congo,
358
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,080
throughout Africa.
359
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,360
Djuna Djanana's specialty
was creating that atmosphere.
360
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:38,760
He's a guy who chants his songs
in a way that gets his audience moving.
361
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,280
I sang with Papa Wemba.
362
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,960
We toured Europe,
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Africa, everywhere.
364
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,840
IN THE '80s, PAPA WEMBA WAS ONE
OF THE BIGGEST STARS IN AFRICAN MUSIC.
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00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:07,240
HE POPULARIZED CONGOLESE RUMBA
AROUND THE WORLD.
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00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:10,720
I was really little,
367
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,680
and I remember running after the trucks
368
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,400
with the ads for Papa
369
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,680
with his group, Viva la Musica.
370
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,440
We'd run after the trucks.
371
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:21,640
It was crazy.
372
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,040
We got everyone dancing the mbili mbili.
373
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,880
That was our generation's famous dance.
374
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,520
Mobutu danced the mbili mbili.
375
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:40,240
He was pleased.
376
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,640
We sang for the birthday
of his wife, Bobi Ladawa,
377
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,600
at his home, in Mobutu's house.
378
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,800
I think my dad was sort of
affiliated to him.
379
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,560
It's tricky in those countries
if you're close to a president,
380
00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:58,720
to a politician.
381
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:07,920
THE DICTATOR JOSEPH-DÉSIRÉ MOBUTU RULED
OVER ZAIRE, NOW CONGO, FROM 1965 TO 1997.
382
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,400
A multi-party system in Zaire?
383
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:12,320
Never!
384
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,400
That will never happen!
385
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:15,840
Let that be clear.
386
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,040
Mobutu was bloodthirsty.
387
00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:22,880
He never hesitated to kill his opponents
or make them disappear.
388
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,040
It was a pretty tough dictatorship.
389
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,560
IN 1988, WITH ZAIRE IN CRISIS,
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00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,000
THINGS GOT COMPLICATED FOR DJUNA DJANANA,
HIS WIFE, AND HIS FOUR CHILDREN.
391
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,720
The people were suffering...
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00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,360
because Mobutu had completely changed.
393
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:42,960
And then,
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00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,040
I released a song
395
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,880
against the Mobutu regime.
396
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:55,440
That's why I fled the country.
397
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,600
I didn't want to get arrested.
398
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:05,640
NOVEMBER 17, 2018
399
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:06,600
Yeah.
400
00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:12,120
Is he in there?
401
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:13,960
-Omar?
-Yes.
402
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,720
-It's me again, but I brought company.
-Yeah?
403
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:18,240
Big brother!
404
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,640
-How are you, brother?
-Good. You?
405
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,480
-Sorry, I brought the cameras.
-No problem. How are you?
406
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,280
Yeah, great.
407
00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:27,480
-What's up?
-Hey.
408
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,040
Things are good, yeah.
I'm in the middle of my tour.
409
00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:32,920
-Yeah?
-I'm in the middle of my tour.
410
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,200
Playing Lille the day after tomorrow.
411
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,720
-So, in France, then?
-In France, yeah.
412
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,640
-Playing Paris?
-No, that's next year.
413
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,760
That'll just be for the Stade de France.
I hope you'll come.
414
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:45,360
-When?
-September 28.
415
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,560
-September 28, Stade de France?
-Stade de France.
416
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,520
-Holy shit. You realize?
-Make a note.
417
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,120
-I already have.
-September 28.
418
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,880
September 28, 2019. I'll remember.
419
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:57,520
-That's crazy.
-Yeah.
420
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,280
-Are you freaking out or chill?
-Freaking out.
421
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,560
-Yeah, it's scary.
-Freaking out. Too many tickets to sell.
422
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,400
You gotta score some goals!
423
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,480
That's the problem!
How are you gonna do that?
424
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,240
Okay, makeup time.
425
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,120
See you, Omar.
426
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,560
How do you react to everything
that's happened in your life?
427
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,120
It was one of my brothers
who was supposed to come to France,
428
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,600
but I got on the plane at the last moment.
429
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,880
So, I keep all that in mind at all times.
430
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,320
I feel privileged
because none of this is normal.
431
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,320
My mom and dad took Gandhi,
432
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,880
GIMS, and one of my sisters
433
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:56,920
and came here.
434
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:01,480
And they left me and my older brother
with one of his brothers,
435
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,200
who raised us over there.
436
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,160
I was supposed to stay
and maybe come later or...
437
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,880
But in the end,
I was the one who was chosen.
438
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:21,120
IN 1988, THE TWO-YEAR-OLD GIMS ARRIVED
IN FRANCE WITH HIS LITTLE SISTER FITSCHA.
439
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:27,000
We got to France,
and it really was an adventure.
440
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,800
At first, you can get a hotel,
but then you run out of resources.
441
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,560
No job, no papers, nothing.
442
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:37,880
It really was an adventure.
443
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,640
My mom is very reticent
to talk about all that.
444
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:48,520
My dad, too, so...
445
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:54,360
But I know it really was
a matter of life or death.
446
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,120
GIMS WAS JOINED BY HIS ELDER BROTHERS,
SATY AND AFI,
447
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,320
AND PUT IN A CHILDREN'S HOME.
448
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,800
CHILDREN WELFARE SERVICE CENTER
449
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,440
We'd stay there all week...
450
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,320
and our parents would come to see us
on the weekend.
451
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,480
We'd seen white people before
but not so many.
452
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,760
There, we were living with white people.
453
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,080
We were practically the only Black people.
454
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,120
We'd all eat together.
We'd be told a story.
455
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,680
Sometimes we'd watch a movie.
I first saw E.T. there.
456
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,480
We learned French. We went to school.
457
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,960
We learned all kinds of things
we didn't know in Africa.
458
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,120
I discovered lots of things.
459
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,000
I discovered Michael Jackson.
460
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,160
And that's how my life in France began.
461
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,720
Glory, power and beauty often end badly
462
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,040
Hard to see tears through fire
463
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:58,640
AT THE AGE OF FOUR, GIMS LEFT THE HOME.
464
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,680
THE FAMILY MOVED TO IVRY-SUR-SEINE
BEFORE BEING EVICTED.
465
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,600
All adrift at sea
466
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,480
I feel like I am free
467
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,200
In my eyes, you can see
468
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,240
I'm as solid as can be
469
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,040
I did what I had to
470
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,160
Even if it tortures my mind
471
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,160
I 'fess up to my mistakes
472
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,120
My conscience hangs by a thread
473
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,080
My mind's distracted
474
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,280
Don't tell me about living right
475
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,920
I'm living proof
That life hangs only by a thread
476
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,680
I did what I had to
477
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:37,480
That'll do.
478
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:45,320
PARIS
2:30 A.M.
479
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,080
When I came to Paris, it was here.
480
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,400
This was the first place I lived in.
481
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,520
Number 61.
482
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:58,640
There was no shower, no bedroom.
483
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,320
It wasn't made for living.
484
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,360
I'd take this street to get to school.
485
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:07,960
We had a secret passage.
486
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,880
It goes straight through
that building over there.
487
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,960
But we didn't know the code,
so we'd kick in the door.
488
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,240
It was a shortcut
straight to the other side.
489
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,400
Elementary school was a real shock.
490
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,440
I learned French values, French riches,
French sources of pride.
491
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,640
And art obviously. That's where it began.
492
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:37,680
I was hooked straight away.
493
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,240
I acted in my first play
in the 4th grade,
494
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:48,760
The Bourgeois Gentleman.
495
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,280
And at that moment...
496
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,360
I knew I'd found something I could do.
I loved it.
497
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:59,280
Being onstage, being at the forefront,
It was the first time I got applause.
498
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:00,560
That made an impression.
499
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:12,840
He tried to understand everything
about music, about rap.
500
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,720
This was during the time
of VHS and cassette tapes.
501
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:17,240
I had cassettes of...
502
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,920
the Wu-Tang Clan,
loads of American stuff,
503
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,360
Dr. Dre and all that.
504
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,160
I'd be rapping. He was a kid,
505
00:34:24,240 --> 00:34:27,360
and he'd be like, "Yeah, wicked!"
506
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,240
And I'd tell him, "Do it like that."
507
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:30,680
I wrote some lyrics,
508
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,160
"Bro, I'm doing my best
Stay chill, I'm not stressed"
509
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,080
Just simple rhymes.
510
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,280
But that's how it was then.
It's crazy.
511
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,760
"Bro, I'm doing my best
Stay chill, I'm not stressed
512
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,440
Give it a rest"
513
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,080
They were my showcase lyrics.
514
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,480
I'd never have imagined
515
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,280
that he'd really get into it
516
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,000
and make a name for himself: GIMS.
517
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,400
And become... the GIMS!
518
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,920
I'd never have imagined it. No way!
519
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,560
I should've been the GIMS!
520
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,160
Know what I mean?
It should've been me.
521
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,880
IN 1995, GIMS' PARENTS SEPARATED.
522
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:23,400
GIMS WAS LEFT WITH HIS TWO LITTLE SISTERS
AND HIS LITTLE BROTHER, BEDJIK.
523
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:26,800
I lived with my mom
524
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,400
in these squats,
always with lots of people,
525
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,040
who were in the same situation we were.
526
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,200
We'd share the house.
527
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,800
It was hardcore. No shower, nothing.
We washed in a bucket.
528
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,760
I remember it was blue or red.
529
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,320
You had to heat the water on the gas
530
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:47,960
and wash using that.
I couldn't do it.
531
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,080
Loads of people were on drugs.
532
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,520
I grew up with junkies. Lots of them.
533
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,680
I had an uncle... He wasn't really
my uncle, but that's what we called him.
534
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,200
That was his business.
I saw him dealing.
535
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:08,320
And I remember he hid his cocaine
in yogurt pots.
536
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,440
One time I found some,
537
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,560
and I tore it open and tasted it.
538
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,200
I had no idea what it was.
539
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,480
I said, "I want to be like you.
540
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,760
Teach me how to do what you do."
541
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,680
And he really yelled at me that day.
542
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,680
One day, when we were all still asleep,
543
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,800
there was a police raid
at six in the morning.
544
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,680
They smashed the door in.
545
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,360
You'd get back from school
and have no home.
546
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:47,760
Yeah.
547
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,680
From then on,
the family was totally split up.
548
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:55,800
I said, "Well, that's it."
549
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:56,840
I quit school,
550
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,680
and I really became a proper street kid.
551
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,440
MC, mercenary from Kinshasa
552
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,080
I'm hitting you
And everyone wonders who's doing it
553
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,640
In Kinshasa kids under seven
Scream battle cries
554
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:12,480
Man, it's hard, okay?
555
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,080
The mic? Take it back from me
Criticizing? Feel free
556
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,360
You might lose it if you had to leave
Your apartment by the end of the month
557
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,040
Good advice from my friend, I didn't know
The government would screw me
558
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:21,640
Relax, that's not asking too much
I'm here for the money
559
00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:23,440
I don't like arguing, okay
560
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,280
Okay, okay, okay
561
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:30,320
I was convinced
that I would make it through all right.
562
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,920
I met Maska, Adama, Lefa...
563
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,480
and we created the group Sexion d'Assaut
then, in 2001.
564
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,440
We struggled together
for years and years.
565
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,360
We went here and there,
in the street, freestyling.
566
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:59,800
I'd say to the guys, "I'm going home."
But I wasn't going anywhere.
567
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:02,600
I'd walk around
along the big Parisian boulevards.
568
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:05,920
I'd go to FNAC and listen to albums.
569
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,720
All I did was dream, nothing but dream.
570
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,320
I'd "sleep," in quotes, in the subway.
571
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,720
The train would reach the last stop,
I'd get off, sleep,
572
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:22,840
and go around Paris again.
573
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,960
I'd sleep at friends' places,
in stairwells.
574
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,520
I was in freefall.
That's what my life was.
575
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,640
He was sleeping in the street.
576
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:34,840
-Didn't you know?
-No, I didn't know.
577
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:39,280
He was underage,
he couldn't be sleeping on the streets.
578
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,560
He grew up with his pals.
579
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:48,680
He did what he could.
580
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:51,880
I know he doesn't blame anyone.
581
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,520
It's never crossed his mind.
582
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:56,320
He's not like that.
583
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,600
You know, we're a real family.
It doesn't matter.
584
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:02,920
There was no choice.
585
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,360
It was hard to think about all that,
586
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,080
to... block it all out, thinking,
587
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:14,200
"Why... did my dad leave?
I wanted to go with them."
588
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:15,680
It was so difficult.
589
00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:20,080
Just having a good day,
getting enough to eat, et cetera,
590
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,720
that was the most important thing.
591
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:29,200
Yeah...
592
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:40,480
Yeah...
593
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:59,400
APRIL 11, 2019, GIMS' WIFE, DEMDEM,
LAUNCHES HER FASHION LABEL.
594
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:08,880
I think we represent the classic pattern
of people who grew up in poverty,
595
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,040
who became rich all of a sudden,
596
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,600
and decided to make up for lost time,
597
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,360
maybe too quickly and badly.
598
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:18,600
I wasn't prepared for all that.
599
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,440
There's no school to learn
about being an artist's wife.
600
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,840
It's not easy being "the wife of..."
601
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,840
You're sort of a shadow, and you want
to "exist," in quotes,
602
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:34,160
to do something.
603
00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:36,720
So, it's not easy. Especially for a woman.
604
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,520
He doesn't like to feel
in a position of inferiority.
605
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:46,080
He's a winner. He wants to succeed.
He doesn't like to lose.
606
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,960
He looks at his sales figures
very closely.
607
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,520
When a new album is coming out,
during the week,
608
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,960
he'll keep himself to himself more,
be more reserved,
609
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,040
but I know
that's just because he's worried.
610
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:58,280
Good evening, everyone!
611
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:05,360
Thanks for coming.
Thanks for accepting the invitation.
612
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:07,880
Thank you, Dan and DemDem.
613
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:09,800
Thanks a million.
614
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,320
Make some noise for Maître GIMS!
615
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,280
He won't let anyone overtake him, anyone.
616
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,200
You could be his dad,
he still wouldn't let you.
617
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,160
My goal is to overtake him.
618
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,600
And his goal is for me to be...
619
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:36,160
just... to be coming up,
but just behind his shoulder.
620
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:39,480
We're obviously rivals.
621
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:41,560
It's crazy. It's...
622
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:43,840
It's a funny feeling.
623
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:45,800
There's a sense of pride,
624
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:50,200
but he's also a real rival now.
He's put himself in that position.
625
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,520
His career may not be as big as mine yet,
626
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,240
but he will do
and perhaps go even further.
627
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:57,240
I don't know.
628
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,440
Hello, my name is Dadju.
629
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:03,040
I am...
630
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,160
I'm Maître GIMS' little brother.
631
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,480
Which, of course, makes me
DemDem's brother-in-law.
632
00:42:14,720 --> 00:42:17,240
So, obviously the two of them
had to force me to come.
633
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:24,000
No, I'm kidding. It's the family
here today being honored.
634
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,600
She's made a success
of what she wanted to do.
635
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:27,680
I'm proud of her.
636
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:29,880
So, make some noise for DemDem, please!
637
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,040
At the end of 2018,
they ranked the best sales in France.
638
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,680
The top three were Johnny Hallyday,
GIMS, Dadju.
639
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:52,880
When I saw that...
640
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,280
I thought, "Now wait!
Do you realize what's happening?"
641
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,160
I've never seen anything like it.
Two brothers at the top of the ranking.
642
00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:02,840
It's historic. It's crazy.
643
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,040
It hurts when you work really hard,
and they say,
644
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,200
"It's because you're GIMS' brother."
645
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,920
And GIMS knew that would happen.
646
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,200
It was bound to.
He's the most popular singer here.
647
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,280
So, if you were Zidane's son,
you'd be compared to Zidane, you know?
648
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,040
He took a step back from it.
649
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,120
He kept his distance a bit.
650
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:30,600
And becoming an artist in my own right
was a victory for me.
651
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,040
And he was the first to be pleased.
652
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,920
TEN MONTHS BEFORE THE STADE DE FRANCE.
653
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,000
BEFORE THE STADE DE FRANCE,
654
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,240
GIMS' "FUEGO TOUR" PLAYS IN 52 CITIES
IN FRANCE AND EUROPE IN SIX MONTHS.
655
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,680
Wait for the train to come
to a complete stop before descending.
656
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,280
This is a nice spot for a photo.
657
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:24,760
I think most people get to know me
with the big hits,
658
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,240
but the rappers know very well who I am.
659
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,600
They know very well where I come from,
know my journey.
660
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,760
SOPRANO, ARTIST
FRENCH RAP AND POP STAR
661
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:38,080
You know, when every day people say,
"You're just a pop singer!"
662
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,800
But you know deep down
663
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:44,040
that if you started rapping again,
you could really light it up.
664
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,120
At some point, your pride takes a hit.
665
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,440
And you go, "Okay, who's rapping now?
I'll show you!"
666
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,200
-Good evening, sir!
-Hi, sir.
667
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,080
-Okay, bro? Sorry I'm late.
-No problem.
668
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:05,960
How's it going? Cool?
669
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:08,240
Welcome home.
670
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:11,040
Welcome home, guys.
671
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,160
-Hello!
-How's it going? Cool?
672
00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:15,320
Yeah, and you?
673
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:17,360
Manon.
674
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:19,560
SCH.
675
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,640
You need to be careful
when asking him for a feature spot.
676
00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:24,520
He's got a crazy flow.
677
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:25,800
SCH
ARTIST
678
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:29,720
I wouldn't have a rap battle with him,
know what I mean?
679
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:31,440
There's the beast!
680
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:33,280
You see that?
681
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:40,160
It's a really long stage.
682
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:42,520
That's US-style.
683
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:44,960
GIMS is a huge Eminem fan.
684
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:48,440
And one thing Eminem was great at
was humiliating others on collaborations.
685
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,720
It was his specialty.
686
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,080
And GIMS has that competitiveness.
687
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,920
-You're playing the Stade de France?
-Yeah, September 28.
688
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,240
-That's sick!
-Yeah.
689
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,040
Gotta sell out.
690
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,200
I'm totally stressed about it.
691
00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:06,080
End up a mega-star,
no need for promotion.
692
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:08,760
That's the ultimate stage.
It means that you made it,
693
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:10,720
you own the place,
you don't give a damn anymore.
694
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,760
It doesn't matter radio or not.
I've got my audience. They're there.
695
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:34,320
FIRST RECORDING OF SONG "LOUP GAROU."
696
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,240
This is what a "kicker" looks like,
a technical rapper.
697
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,080
It's a guy who can freestyle,
who has flow,
698
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,480
who has technique, who can do wordplay,
699
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,800
can speed up, slow down,
rap to any production.
700
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:23,200
And I belong to that species
which is dying out, real kickers.
701
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:48,960
I was recording it.
It was just the two of us.
702
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,920
We weren't expecting
to record this tune at the time.
703
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:56,480
It took three quarters of an hour,
maximum.
704
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:58,520
And he got it down, wrote it down.
705
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,880
He had just a few lyrics,
and he just wrote it all down.
706
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:03,200
He didn't want to stop.
707
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:05,760
He wanted to make a sick verse,
and he did!
708
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,720
I always want to do
two or three rap numbers in a project.
709
00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:19,280
I still keep an eye on what's happening.
It's important.
710
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:21,440
That's where it all begins.
711
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:23,280
That's the foundation.
712
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,040
You tore it up, man!
713
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:28,200
Thanks, man.
714
00:49:35,720 --> 00:49:37,600
-I'm getting on the bus.
-Okay.
715
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,800
You need to battle each other,
and we'll see who kills who.
716
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:46,480
No, but...
717
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,720
I already killed Fianso! Who else?
718
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,480
He'll beat your guy.
You know he'll beat him.
719
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,400
He'll beat him, but he'll try to respond!
720
00:49:59,240 --> 00:50:00,680
Thank you. That's okay.
721
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:07,080
TOURING THROUGHOUT FRANCE
AND AT THE STADE DE FRANCE ON 09/28/2019
722
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:37,200
Gonna be huge.
723
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,000
First tune from the new album.
724
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:44,040
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
725
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,120
I get off the stage after a two-hour gig,
726
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,440
I get on the bus, I eat,
and I listen to the tune
727
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:50,520
for hours.
728
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:58,360
I don't have any lyrics.
I wait for inspiration to hit,
729
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,560
to bring me some of its magic,
and then go away again.
730
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,280
You need to adapt,
to assimilate the song.
731
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,920
It has to... transcend you.
732
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,000
Once it's transcended you, you've got it!
733
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:45,040
THE NEXT DAY.
734
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:48,760
He works all the time.
735
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:50,520
I remember times,
736
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:53,280
driving around Paris...
737
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:54,920
H MAGNUM
ARTIST
738
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:56,720
...and not talking for an hour.
739
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:01,360
And for that hour,
he was working away in his head.
740
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,720
He was coming up with a melody.
741
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:07,000
Then he'd be like, "Hey, I've got a tune!
742
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:08,320
It's a killer!"
743
00:52:12,720 --> 00:52:13,680
That's not bad.
744
00:52:14,240 --> 00:52:16,080
He gets inspiration everywhere.
745
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:20,720
He has this Mercedes
which you start by pressing a button.
746
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:22,800
He heard the sound of the engine...
747
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:24,400
He was like, "Shit, I've got a melody!"
748
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,280
What do you mean you've got a tune?!
749
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:30,040
He got a tune
750
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:33,880
from hearing a part of the jingle
for The Young and the Restless.
751
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,680
You got the beat going...
752
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:44,400
You know the synth
you put in the background?
753
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:50,280
Try to play it with just that.
754
00:52:50,720 --> 00:52:52,480
I think we need to change it.
755
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:56,120
The beat is great,
but there are a lot of filters.
756
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:58,840
He already has the whole song in his head,
757
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,920
and he tells the beatmaker,
"Do this. Add that."
758
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:09,880
FINALIZING THE LYRICS FOR "JASMINE."
759
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,360
"I tried."
760
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:35,520
Yeah, "I tried," that works.
761
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,480
-It's good.
-I'll make a note.
762
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:56,080
The public are pitiless. They'll judge you
the second they hear you.
763
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,200
To me, a really good artist
764
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,640
is someone who can have a hit.
765
00:54:04,720 --> 00:54:07,200
The problem is
that while you get that hit,
766
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,800
you're already looking ahead,
thinking how you can kill that hit.
767
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:13,640
Or the hit will kill you.
768
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,120
I'm always defending my title.
769
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:22,000
That's how it is.
That's the scariest thing.
770
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:07,240
Good.
771
00:55:09,240 --> 00:55:10,240
One more.
772
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:30,080
RECORDING OF "JASMINE."
773
00:55:37,720 --> 00:55:41,920
You can see he comes from rap.
He turns up with nothing written.
774
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,120
He does it there and then,
775
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:45,400
and it's quick.
776
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,440
It's instinctive writing.
777
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:56,680
That's a nice little gimmick.
778
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:59,000
Without the... Got it.
779
00:55:59,920 --> 00:56:02,800
The most sincere tracks,
the biggest hits,
780
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:04,720
are put together very quickly.
781
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:06,600
No need to take three days.
782
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:08,960
If you take three days, something's wrong.
783
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:12,360
Maybe it shouldn't even exist,
or you haven't got it.
784
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,960
Great! There's just that bit which...
785
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:33,880
I'm in my socks, we've got granola,
786
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,000
we've got cookies, and...
787
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:40,400
the song will come out and be on radio
everywhere. All France will listen to it.
788
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:45,640
Oh, yeah!
789
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:25,000
My first freestyle was right here,
790
00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:29,760
in this park, with Barack Adama,
Maska, Lefa, and the others.
791
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:34,360
This is where Sexion d'Assaut was born.
792
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:37,320
Right here, nowhere else.
793
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:43,320
The hard thing in all that is to find
your own style, your own character,
794
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:45,040
find what is really you.
795
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:50,480
I think I found my character
quite early on.
796
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:54,720
That made it possible for me to bloom.
I didn't search for long.
797
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:06,880
I became the guy with the sunglasses
798
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:10,000
one night when there was no moon.
799
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:20,840
Don't screw me around
I take no abuse
800
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:23,560
You don't calm a Tutsi
With an orange juice...
801
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:24,720
I was freestyling...
802
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:27,560
and I had sunglasses on.
803
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:29,600
It was recorded and put online,
804
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:32,200
but there was no name,
they didn't know who I was,
805
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:34,960
so... they started calling me
"the Sunglasses Guy."
806
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:39,440
People wanted to freestyle,
to do battles with the Sunglasses Guy.
807
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:41,000
We did freestyle battles.
808
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:44,680
I bought tourist sunglasses at Montmartre.
809
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,200
I needed sunglasses to be recognized.
810
00:58:56,520 --> 00:59:00,600
BLACK M
ARTIST - SEXION D'ASSAUT
811
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,960
For several years,
we were just doing it for fun,
812
00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:06,400
just to be together.
813
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:09,320
We shared the same passion.
It was our happiness.
814
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:13,720
It became serious when we realized
815
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:16,160
that we needed to put some work into it,
816
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:18,320
then it became serious business.
817
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:23,960
BETWEEN 2010 AND 2012, SEXION D'ASSAUT
SOLD OVER A MILLION ALBUMS.
818
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:27,520
Back then, our strength was
being on the same wavelength.
819
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:29,400
We were determined.
We were the best,
820
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:31,880
the best European rap group.
821
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:34,880
We were sure of that.
822
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:43,760
We doing "Wati by Night" or not?
823
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:48,320
When I saw him on TV, I went, "Shit!
824
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:50,120
That's GIMS! It's Gandhi!"
825
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:53,920
"What's going on? That's my son!"
826
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:55,200
"He's made it."
827
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:02,680
The group made history.
828
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:04,960
They kick-started rap again.
829
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:08,200
I loved them straightaway.
830
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:09,720
They said, "Wait, please."
831
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:12,360
They smashed open the door,
and everyone poured through.
832
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:13,920
They didn't stop.
833
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:16,480
They released song after song after song.
834
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:19,240
It was a tidal wave.
835
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:21,960
They were big rappers, big freestylers.
836
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:24,600
I listen to rappers today, and I think,
837
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,280
"Yeah, they've fed on Sexion d'Assaut,
838
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:29,480
and now they rap like that."
839
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:37,920
They were the first to own
and especially to enjoy making hits.
840
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:39,880
Only yesterday,
841
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,720
I was somewhere
where they were listening to...
842
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:44,920
Saturday night parties
843
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,200
Sometimes disappoint me
844
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:50,680
They became a legendary group
845
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:51,760
in just a year.
846
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:58,960
Make some noise for...
847
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:03,320
ONE SONG SYMBOLIZES THIS SUCCESS,
"DÉSOLÉ," WITH SALES OF 200,000 IN 2010.
848
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:06,200
At the time,
I was embarrassed about singing.
849
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:08,840
At the time, it was all about rap.
850
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,560
If rappers wanted a singer,
it would be a woman.
851
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:15,480
I think back then male rappers tried
to show their masculinity,
852
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:17,480
that they were the alpha dogs.
853
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,320
The rap game was strong then.
The rap game was heavy.
854
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:25,400
So, singing was something more elegant,
more feminine.
855
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:26,960
So guys didn't dare go there.
856
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:28,640
But some of them did dare,
857
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:31,640
and I think when GIMS dared to do it,
he came up with his big voice,
858
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:33,160
and he killed it.
859
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:34,960
So, I said, "Okay, rock style!"
860
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:37,200
That's how I saw it, as rock.
861
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:13,080
The genius came from his voice.
862
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:17,560
And I think it was that which...
blew everyone away.
863
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:21,000
I think that at first, he underestimated
his capacity to be a real singer.
864
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:25,120
But he soon came to realize
that he had a strength compared to others,
865
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:26,800
and that's why he took off.
866
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:31,360
-What's up, dude?
-All good?
867
01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:35,000
-New jacket, new life?
-Stop it!
868
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:39,280
Part two is more singing.
869
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,360
It's better adapted to GIMS than to me.
870
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:43,600
THEY'RE WORKING ON BLACK M'S NEXT ALBUM.
871
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:44,920
I can do it, but...
872
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:46,320
-Yes, I see.
-See?
873
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:47,920
He has more fun with it.
874
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:50,440
You know? And the...
875
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:52,000
before the chorus.
876
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:54,560
That sounds like just before the chorus.
877
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:56,480
And then, bang, the chorus!
878
01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:57,720
Yeah.
879
01:02:57,800 --> 01:02:59,240
You need a simpler chorus,
880
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:02,760
but go into it
with a Daft Punk robot voice, like...
881
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:06,280
Yeah, I see.
882
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:23,560
When we get together,
it's like nothing has changed.
883
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:25,840
Even if it isn't as strong as before.
884
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:29,920
That's logical. We aren't together 24/7.
We aren't teenagers anymore.
885
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:33,680
ZAKI
PERSONAL ASSISTANT
886
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:34,600
GIMS?
887
01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:35,920
Ready?
888
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:37,120
It's time.
889
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:39,840
Next week, Maître GIMS will join
890
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:43,800
the select club of artists
who've sung at the Stade de France.
891
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:48,360
The last date is Lille, right?
892
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:50,400
Yeah, Liévin. The stadium there.
893
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:52,120
The 19th. Next Wednesday.
894
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:58,000
Is it night or day? What's going on?
895
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:03,360
French rap often just copies American rap.
896
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:06,080
I think a track like "Désolé"...
897
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:08,800
has no equivalent
898
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:09,920
in American rap.
899
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:11,560
They invented something.
900
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:16,760
Urban pop is a purist's nightmare,
901
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,080
rap sung with choruses.
902
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:23,400
But I think that it brought something new.
903
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:26,520
We were able to ignite interest
904
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:30,160
in people who had no interest in rap.
905
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:35,280
There isn't a new audience out there
waiting for a hero.
906
01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:36,760
There isn't.
907
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:39,040
All the audiences are accounted for,
I swear!
908
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:41,160
-All of them.
-All of them. Yeah. That's very true.
909
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:44,120
Each audience has its representative,
its flag.
910
01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:45,400
"I listen to Bigflo."
911
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:48,280
"I listen to so-and-so."
"I listen to Damso."
912
01:04:48,360 --> 01:04:50,600
"I listen to Orelsan."
"I listen to Nekfeu."
913
01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:53,800
All the audiences are taken.
Now you have to win them over.
914
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:55,400
You look at rap today,
915
01:04:56,120 --> 01:04:57,080
everyone sings.
916
01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:00,280
Even the so-called "hardcore" guys
917
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:02,240
are in soft mode.
918
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:37,800
After a gig, I usually...
919
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:40,440
the show goes on.
920
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:42,360
This famous game, Werewolf.
921
01:05:43,160 --> 01:05:44,280
The village sleeps.
922
01:05:45,200 --> 01:05:48,120
Where are we today?
We were in Libreville yesterday.
923
01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:50,480
Now we're in Canada.
924
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:54,800
You can hear the water over the rocks,
rumbling.
925
01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:57,320
And the wolves awaken.
926
01:05:57,400 --> 01:06:01,280
The wolves suddenly wake up
and look at each other.
927
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:04,560
He never plays Werewolf.
He's the narrator.
928
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:06,800
What he likes, what he enjoys,
929
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:09,320
is seeing that everyone is good.
930
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:11,520
-There are two wolves here.
-No. What's he doing?
931
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:12,720
Yes, stop it. Come on.
932
01:06:13,240 --> 01:06:14,960
-Are you a wolf, Adama?
-No.
933
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:16,920
-He's a wolf, and so are you.
-You're a wolf.
934
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:18,000
Sorry!
935
01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:20,440
LEFA
ARTIST - SEXION D'ASSAUT
936
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:21,560
Show your card!
937
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:22,760
He's not a wolf!
938
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:24,760
-He is a wolf!
-He's not!
939
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:26,680
He's a wolf!
940
01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:31,880
I told you he was a wolf!
941
01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:37,280
MARRAKESH
942
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:38,440
You'll get dirty.
943
01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:40,400
You'll... No, you'll get dirty.
944
01:06:40,920 --> 01:06:42,840
No, it's in his pocket!
945
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:44,680
-No.
-It's in his hand!
946
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:48,880
-Zero, zero, zero.
-Leave my phone alone.
947
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:51,640
Let go.
948
01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:58,080
The hardest part is explaining to the kids
why you aren't there,
949
01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:02,640
that you're away for six weeks, then back
for three or four days, ten days...
950
01:07:03,040 --> 01:07:05,520
That's harder than being on stage
for two hours
951
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:07,640
or doing a 50-show tour.
952
01:07:11,040 --> 01:07:15,160
I know it hurts him a lot
to not be around for his children.
953
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:19,200
That's the worst part of the job for him,
954
01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:21,960
not seeing his children grow up,
955
01:07:22,040 --> 01:07:25,320
not being here for them every day,
not having that routine.
956
01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:31,560
That's his biggest regret.
957
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:36,520
During this month off,
958
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:41,640
we have to get a week to ten days
in a recording studio.
959
01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:43,120
I can't move.
960
01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:46,800
I told you in January
I'd be staying in Morocco.
961
01:07:47,160 --> 01:07:50,000
If I go away for two days here,
ten days there...
962
01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:54,240
it'll screw everything up,
my "vacation," the kids, everything.
963
01:07:55,640 --> 01:07:57,360
Do you realize? It's...
964
01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:01,640
How many years is it since I've had
a full week or ten days off consecutively
965
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:04,480
with the kids in Morocco or whatever?
966
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:08,120
Hey, let him have the packet!
967
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:10,640
Let him have it.
968
01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:14,320
January, I said, I'd be in Morocco.
969
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:18,280
If it's to record,
we can bring people here instead.
970
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:19,800
We have the space.
971
01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:26,920
GIMS MOVED TO MOROCCO IN 2014.
972
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:30,560
I chose to live in Morocco
because I visited a long time ago,
973
01:08:31,480 --> 01:08:34,640
and I loved the atmosphere
of the people and the country.
974
01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:38,280
It's not so far away,
but it's so different.
975
01:08:38,360 --> 01:08:41,640
So, I came back the following year,
and so on, I brought friends.
976
01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:43,600
And then, so much happened.
977
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:47,040
I met people. I met the king.
I met powerful people,
978
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:49,960
interesting people,
people who helped me.
979
01:08:51,120 --> 01:08:52,760
And I decided to move here.
980
01:08:58,280 --> 01:09:00,200
That's what's crazy about this place.
981
01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:03,920
You've got a donkey there
and a Range Rover here. That's beautiful.
982
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:07,840
Medieval over there and Louis Vuitton...
Crazy!
983
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:12,640
The Knights of the Round Table
and Louis Vuitton!
984
01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:14,800
It's crazy.
985
01:09:16,680 --> 01:09:18,680
I feel I'm a citizen of the world.
986
01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:23,760
I feel at home in France,
in Morocco, in Kinshasa.
987
01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:26,800
They're places
where I've always been welcomed.
988
01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:34,960
I feel comfortable
because it's a Muslim country.
989
01:09:36,320 --> 01:09:38,080
So, of course I feel...
990
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:40,880
I feel included in their culture.
991
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:46,440
I was originally Christian.
992
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:49,840
I converted in 2004,
when I was still at school.
993
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:52,680
It's so personal. It's so...
994
01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:57,080
It connects to the invisible.
995
01:09:57,680 --> 01:09:59,680
It's something you feel. It's...
996
01:10:00,480 --> 01:10:01,480
It's spiritual.
997
01:10:04,480 --> 01:10:07,960
I was always looking for answers
998
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:12,000
regarding creation, the world we live in,
999
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:13,240
where we come from.
1000
01:10:13,480 --> 01:10:16,200
And at that time,
I was smoking a fair bit of hash,
1001
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:17,800
so I was all over the place.
1002
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:20,160
It opens up your chakras.
1003
01:10:20,240 --> 01:10:24,600
You're stoned. You look at the clouds
and see all this craziness.
1004
01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:26,400
You see the clouds like this.
1005
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:29,120
You have all these weird thoughts
in your head.
1006
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:33,800
So, I started getting interested in it
at that time.
1007
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:37,880
And I talked about it a lot
with the guys from Sexion d'Assaut,
1008
01:10:37,960 --> 01:10:39,200
Adama and Lefa.
1009
01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:43,080
I was fascinated.
We talked about it all the time.
1010
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:44,520
Aïsha, sit there.
1011
01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:46,400
Here you go.
1012
01:10:47,800 --> 01:10:48,960
When I converted,
1013
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:51,600
I didn't want to drink or smoke.
1014
01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:53,360
I just stopped.
1015
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:56,680
It gives you a framework.
1016
01:10:57,120 --> 01:10:58,080
Stop that!
1017
01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:03,360
He has his own definition
of a man, of a father,
1018
01:11:03,440 --> 01:11:05,520
and I think that was prescribed by Islam.
1019
01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:08,160
Those values are now entrenched in him.
1020
01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:10,800
Whatever happens,
he always comes back to this line.
1021
01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:12,880
I talk about it with him a lot
1022
01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:17,320
because people often say
our lyrics are innocent.
1023
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:19,720
It's not that we're innocent.
It's just that...
1024
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:22,240
we respect our religion so much
1025
01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:26,360
that I can't say "son of a bitch"
or "motherfucker."
1026
01:11:26,440 --> 01:11:30,600
When we go too far,
it helps us to come back a little bit...
1027
01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:31,560
spiritually.
1028
01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:32,800
Gently!
1029
01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:37,640
Since converting,
back in our Sexion d'Assaut days,
1030
01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:39,040
we've done nothing during Ramadan.
1031
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:41,600
It's our spiritual month.
1032
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:44,240
No promotion, no interviews, none of that.
1033
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:51,240
We have him home for a whole month,
and we can really enjoy it,
1034
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:54,000
especially the kids.
1035
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:58,640
It's really important for them
to have a normal dad.
1036
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:02,360
We want what others try to escape.
1037
01:12:02,440 --> 01:12:04,800
We want a routine for that month.
1038
01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:06,160
Daddy, look!
1039
01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:08,280
That's beautiful!
1040
01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:10,000
We want to get away from it all,
1041
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:12,760
from this earthly world,
1042
01:12:13,240 --> 01:12:14,840
from all that's...
1043
01:12:14,920 --> 01:12:16,080
from showbiz.
1044
01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:19,880
And that's the only time
when it's possible for us.
1045
01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:26,360
When I joined this religion,
1046
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:29,560
with the best intentions, I was...
1047
01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:32,040
I was wide open to any guru.
1048
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:36,880
I was, in quotes,
a "pure heart" in this religion.
1049
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:40,200
So, anyone malicious
could have taken me under their wing
1050
01:12:40,280 --> 01:12:41,480
and weaponized me.
1051
01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:45,840
IN 2005, GIMS JOINED THE TABLIGH BROTHERS,
AN ISLAMIST SECT.
1052
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:48,600
HE WAS FORCED TO PUT AN END TO HIS CAREER
1053
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:52,120
BEFORE CHANGING HIS MIND
AND LEAVING THE MOVEMENT.
1054
01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:03,080
I had friends
that I met in mosques and so on.
1055
01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:07,640
We developed together,
and each took a slightly different path.
1056
01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:10,600
Some of them went off
and ended up in Iraq.
1057
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:12,960
This person went off to Iraq
1058
01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:15,480
and died...
1059
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:17,080
committed suicide.
1060
01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:20,360
People who'd been with me.
1061
01:13:21,400 --> 01:13:23,640
"Remember so-and-so? He went to Iraq."
1062
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:26,480
And that freaked me out.
1063
01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:29,440
I thought, "Shit, I came close!"
1064
01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:31,720
I don't know how I could've ended up.
1065
01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:51,360
Terrorism has been confirmed
1066
01:13:51,440 --> 01:13:54,840
in the investigation into the murder
of two Scandinavians in Morocco.
1067
01:13:54,920 --> 01:13:57,840
On Thursday,
three men were arrested in Marrakesh
1068
01:13:57,920 --> 01:13:59,440
according to authorities.
1069
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:01,360
ON DECEMBER 16, 2018,
1070
01:14:01,440 --> 01:14:03,920
TWO SCANDINAVIAN TOURISTS WERE MURDERED
IN MOROCCO
1071
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:05,680
BY MEN CLAIMING TO BE WITH ISIS.
1072
01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:08,920
ONE WEEK LATER,
GIMS WAS ON STAGE IN MARRAKESH.
1073
01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:17,160
I'm not going to go into detail.
1074
01:14:17,360 --> 01:14:20,000
But I'm a Muslim. I've embraced Islam.
1075
01:14:24,840 --> 01:14:28,280
But I do not recognize Islam
in what's happened.
1076
01:14:28,360 --> 01:14:30,480
I totally disavow what has happened.
1077
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:35,400
And I'm happy to be here tonight.
I've been living in Marrakesh a long time.
1078
01:14:35,480 --> 01:14:38,520
I reject things like that happening here.
1079
01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:39,880
Thank you all.
1080
01:14:39,960 --> 01:14:41,400
Thanks to all the teams.
1081
01:14:44,360 --> 01:14:45,680
I have to disavow it,
1082
01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:50,680
because kids watching me who don't know,
who mix everything up,
1083
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:53,440
with the media
not doing their job properly...
1084
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:55,240
I have to say no.
1085
01:14:55,560 --> 01:14:58,800
I'm a Muslim,
and that has nothing to do with me.
1086
01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:00,720
I have nothing to do with them.
1087
01:15:32,840 --> 01:15:36,960
The Congolese singer is
more than a musician. He's a politician.
1088
01:15:37,480 --> 01:15:39,920
Music there is so important
1089
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:43,840
that a singer is an ambassador,
a representative of the country.
1090
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:45,880
People ask more of him.
1091
01:15:46,680 --> 01:15:49,040
GIMS' DRESSING ROOM
1092
01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:51,800
You can't be holding up your trophies
every day.
1093
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:54,480
"I sold a million, four million albums!"
1094
01:15:54,560 --> 01:15:57,160
You sell and sell... and then what?
1095
01:15:57,240 --> 01:15:59,040
What's it all for? You with me?
1096
01:15:59,120 --> 01:16:02,000
You have to make this thing real
1097
01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:04,040
and say, "Yes, I have a lot,
1098
01:16:04,120 --> 01:16:05,800
but I'm giving some of it
back to the people.
1099
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:06,960
To my people!"
1100
01:16:07,040 --> 01:16:10,000
In your case, Congo.
Don't, and the Congolese will blame you.
1101
01:16:10,080 --> 01:16:12,120
And they'd be right to do so.
1102
01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:15,760
Few people have that power.
Even if you save two lives.
1103
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:18,800
Thanks to you,
some kid might be a doctor tomorrow.
1104
01:16:19,280 --> 01:16:21,960
He'll say, "I was in GIMS' association..."
1105
01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:25,960
He's right. Twenty years later,
you say, "I was in the association."
1106
01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:29,120
-It produces results.
-Yes, it does!
1107
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:34,000
You have to do it. You have no choice.
1108
01:16:34,440 --> 01:16:36,840
If Jérôme Jarre goes to Congo
1109
01:16:36,920 --> 01:16:39,840
and does stuff, you'll be embarrassed.
1110
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:42,120
-Do it!
-I've done it!
1111
01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:46,240
I've been there. I've been to Benin.
I've been all over.
1112
01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:48,800
-I've been there loads of times!
-That's true.
1113
01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:52,600
The guys throwing a wrench in the works
are Black people.
1114
01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:56,080
Except that when you went,
you were unknown.
1115
01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:58,880
If you go now,
you have a different status.
1116
01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:00,280
That's the truth, bro.
1117
01:17:01,480 --> 01:17:03,960
The problem is that he has to...
1118
01:17:04,840 --> 01:17:06,360
manage to do things
1119
01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:09,800
without getting appropriated politically,
1120
01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:13,200
do things without taking sides.
1121
01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:16,280
I'm doing something now,
a new version of the Enfoirés charity
1122
01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:18,760
with a team, Jean-Jacques Goldman style.
1123
01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:23,840
One album per year, thirteen tracks.
All profits will be directly donated.
1124
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:26,440
And a concert in Africa.
1125
01:17:26,520 --> 01:17:30,200
It will focus on access to water.
That's why so many are dying.
1126
01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:33,640
Whatever happens, do something.
That's all I'm saying. Just act.
1127
01:17:35,120 --> 01:17:37,920
Yeah, it's... It really isn't easy.
1128
01:17:39,120 --> 01:17:41,280
You always feel that...
1129
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:43,520
you aren't doing enough...
1130
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:48,360
or that you can't do anything.
1131
01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:51,640
So every time I go,
1132
01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:55,120
we try to go and see the orphans,
1133
01:17:55,200 --> 01:17:59,080
and hand out food,
clothes, school equipment...
1134
01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:01,320
That's all we can do.
1135
01:18:01,720 --> 01:18:04,600
I want to go further.
1136
01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:06,160
That's what I'm doing.
1137
01:18:08,280 --> 01:18:10,480
IN 2020, GIMS DESIGNED A WATCH
1138
01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:13,520
FOR A HIGH-END WATCHMAKER
FOR THE BENEFIT OF UNICEF
1139
01:18:16,120 --> 01:18:19,080
I don't get the money.
It goes straight to an organization.
1140
01:18:19,760 --> 01:18:21,920
-How are you? Nice!
-All right?
1141
01:18:22,480 --> 01:18:26,400
The money goes directly to an association
for children that we chose together.
1142
01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:29,600
This is brilliant!
1143
01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:32,680
We have a crazy amount of work to do
to bring it to life.
1144
01:18:34,920 --> 01:18:37,520
You can show off,
but after, you give back.
1145
01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:40,200
You can't just make people dream.
1146
01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:43,720
You need to give people opportunities,
reach out.
1147
01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:45,560
I have to do it.
1148
01:18:46,720 --> 01:18:48,680
I have to do something
for the people.
1149
01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:53,080
I have to leave some mark.
I have to do something.
1150
01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:02,840
TWO YEARS EARLIER.
1151
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:05,880
I can talk about poverty
because I did struggle with poverty.
1152
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:09,720
I can talk about wealth
because I am now wealthy.
1153
01:19:10,280 --> 01:19:11,480
I have experienced both,
1154
01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:13,960
so I can talk about it. I can understand.
1155
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:23,240
-Is that him?
-Hello, ma'am.
1156
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:26,600
How are you, my boy?
1157
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:28,240
I'm fine. Thank you.
1158
01:19:28,320 --> 01:19:31,560
Since I’ve been here, son,
1159
01:19:32,440 --> 01:19:35,520
on your father’s side of the family,
things have been hard.
1160
01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:40,080
Our life is really hard,
and we can’t get by.
1161
01:19:40,160 --> 01:19:42,840
We barely eat. Life is really tough.
1162
01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:46,640
I tell him. I beg him. I cry.
1163
01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:51,040
Sylvain and my sisters are in Europe.
Two of my children are there too.
1164
01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:53,280
Sylvain and Mado are there.
1165
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:56,840
But without Sylvain’s help,
things are hard for us down here, son.
1166
01:19:57,120 --> 01:20:00,240
Things are really hard for us
on your father’s side of the family.
1167
01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:02,760
On your father’s side,
life treats us badly.
1168
01:20:03,560 --> 01:20:08,520
Apparently, she's my grandmother's sister
on my father's side.
1169
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:11,280
I just found that out there, on the spot.
1170
01:20:11,360 --> 01:20:13,880
I don't know how she got there.
She was really old.
1171
01:20:14,480 --> 01:20:16,800
Sit here. Tell her to sit here.
I’ll be right back.
1172
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:19,120
Sit here on this couch.
I’ll be right back.
1173
01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:26,880
It goes on all day long,
people coming with their problems.
1174
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:28,960
You have to give them money.
1175
01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:32,640
It's the culture. You have to.
1176
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:34,040
Hello, how are you?
1177
01:20:35,240 --> 01:20:36,080
All right?
1178
01:20:40,560 --> 01:20:41,960
We'll get a photo.
1179
01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:44,240
I've involuntarily become...
1180
01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:49,320
the clan chief, the head of the family,
the head of the whole family.
1181
01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:03,680
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
CONCERT AT SHARK CLUB STADIUM, KINSHASA.
1182
01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:08,200
FIRST SOLO CONCERT IN THE CONGO.
1183
01:21:19,280 --> 01:21:20,640
He's the boss,
1184
01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:23,440
the real boss of Congolese music.
1185
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:25,480
It's incredible.
1186
01:21:25,560 --> 01:21:29,480
It's one of the best things to happen
to the Congo for many years.
1187
01:21:29,800 --> 01:21:32,360
He's the incontestable number one.
1188
01:21:32,440 --> 01:21:33,800
Far ahead of me!
1189
01:21:38,440 --> 01:21:39,800
The people are with me.
1190
01:21:40,400 --> 01:21:43,320
They're there. They're with me.
I'm in my country.
1191
01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:47,200
At that moment, you think,
"Nothing can happen to me here."
1192
01:22:16,720 --> 01:22:19,080
It gets to me, but I'm still standing
1193
01:22:19,160 --> 01:22:21,680
I'm affected but still standing
1194
01:22:21,760 --> 01:22:24,000
I'm trying to make ends meet
1195
01:22:24,080 --> 01:22:26,320
It hurts, but I'm still standing
1196
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:28,840
It gets to me, but I'm still standing
1197
01:22:28,920 --> 01:22:31,800
I'm affected but still standing
1198
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:34,280
My clothes are dirty and beat
1199
01:22:34,360 --> 01:22:36,720
It hurts, but I'm still standing
1200
01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:38,120
Still standing
1201
01:22:39,240 --> 01:22:40,560
Still standing
1202
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:43,040
Still standing
1203
01:22:44,160 --> 01:22:45,640
Still standing
1204
01:22:46,680 --> 01:22:48,400
Still standing
1205
01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:50,720
Still standing
1206
01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:53,160
Still standing
1207
01:23:03,320 --> 01:23:05,840
All those symbols are really important,
1208
01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:08,560
really important in those moments,
1209
01:23:08,800 --> 01:23:11,000
for me, for my parents, for everyone.
1210
01:23:11,080 --> 01:23:14,720
I'm happy to be here with my parents
in the country of my birth.
1211
01:23:15,520 --> 01:23:17,840
They come with me
every time I come back here.
1212
01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:21,200
It's an honor for me
to still have them with me tonight.
1213
01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:28,600
He's more mature
and is getting in touch with his roots.
1214
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:32,600
All of us, when we were kids,
in our parents' houses,
1215
01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:34,680
listened to Papa Wemba, Koffi,
1216
01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:37,480
Franco, OK Jazz, Tabu Ley.
1217
01:23:37,560 --> 01:23:38,720
I was sick of it.
1218
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:40,760
It was that, all day long.
1219
01:23:41,760 --> 01:23:44,840
All the music videos and everything
all day long,
1220
01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:47,040
so I'd had my fill of Congolese rumba.
1221
01:23:47,120 --> 01:23:48,440
When you're a youngster,
1222
01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:51,640
I think you build up your character...
1223
01:23:53,240 --> 01:23:56,000
in opposition to the image
you have of your parents.
1224
01:23:56,080 --> 01:24:00,600
But then, in a strange yet natural way,
some things resurface.
1225
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:05,600
This next one is the pride
of the Congo and of all Africa!
1226
01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:09,120
You chose this song
as the song of the year,
1227
01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:10,960
song of the decade!
1228
01:24:11,040 --> 01:24:14,320
I want to see all your hands in the air!
1229
01:24:15,360 --> 01:24:17,560
Someone kicks in your door, it's Gestapo
1230
01:24:17,640 --> 01:24:19,320
I'll find you, Meugui Columbo
1231
01:24:19,400 --> 01:24:21,400
It'll sell tons like Gustavo
1232
01:24:21,480 --> 01:24:23,560
Coffee, no sugar, here we go
1233
01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:25,560
You look good with plenty of dough
1234
01:24:25,640 --> 01:24:27,040
Six years on the combo
1235
01:24:27,120 --> 01:24:29,560
I handle the flow
Mugiwara yes or no
1236
01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:31,480
You ask if it's a no-go
1237
01:24:31,560 --> 01:24:33,840
Hands in the air, hands in the air
1238
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:35,560
Except the guys in Balmain
1239
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:37,480
Balmain, Balmain
1240
01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:39,520
In those pants lookin' like Aladdin
1241
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:41,400
Hands in the air, hands in the air
1242
01:24:41,480 --> 01:24:43,560
Except the guys in Balmain
1243
01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:45,680
Balmain, Balmain
1244
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:47,760
In those pants lookin' like Aladdin
1245
01:24:49,080 --> 01:24:51,040
Come round before midnight
1246
01:24:51,120 --> 01:24:52,920
Come round before midnight...
1247
01:24:53,000 --> 01:24:55,400
Yeah, I was proud
of singing that right then.
1248
01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:58,240
That's the place to perform that song.
1249
01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:00,200
It makes sense there.
1250
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:04,720
He's doing what his dad used to do
with Viva Musica and Papa Wemba,
1251
01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:07,120
singing about a sort of lifestyle,
1252
01:25:07,200 --> 01:25:08,760
naming the brands,
1253
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:10,360
showing off a bit.
1254
01:25:10,440 --> 01:25:14,400
He includes some Lingala language.
He's singing about clothes.
1255
01:25:14,480 --> 01:25:17,320
It's all part of Congolese culture.
1256
01:25:17,400 --> 01:25:21,640
He honored the Congolese people
and the country. A lovely gesture.
1257
01:25:21,720 --> 01:25:25,800
Paris is really ma-ma-ma-magic!
1258
01:25:25,880 --> 01:25:28,040
Dressed to the nines
1259
01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:29,880
Dressed to the nines
1260
01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:31,920
Dressed to the nines
1261
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:33,800
Dressed to the nines
1262
01:25:33,880 --> 01:25:35,680
Loulou and Boutin
1263
01:25:36,200 --> 01:25:37,840
Loulou and Boutin
1264
01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:40,360
Coco 'n' Chanel, Coco!
1265
01:25:48,600 --> 01:25:50,440
At some point,
you think there's a magic formula,
1266
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:52,680
but that's not true. There isn't.
1267
01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:57,200
Because music changes,
you need to listen to what's new.
1268
01:25:57,920 --> 01:25:59,800
And above all, do what you like.
1269
01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:02,120
LOOKING FOR NEW SOUNDS,
1270
01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:05,000
GIMS WORKS WITH THE KING OF REGGAETON,
COLOMBIAN SINGER, MALUMA.
1271
01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:18,360
I like reggaeton, rumba,
so I really wanted to work with him.
1272
01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:22,080
THREE OF MALUMA'S VIDEOS HAVE BEEN VIEWED
OVER A BILLION TIMES ONLINE.
1273
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:25,320
In terms of numbers,
and hits on YouTube, and so on,
1274
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:26,880
we're bigger than the Americans.
1275
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:30,440
Latin American music is the biggest thing
in music right now.
1276
01:26:30,920 --> 01:26:32,000
Nice to meet you.
1277
01:26:39,640 --> 01:26:42,080
MALUMA
ARTIST
1278
01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:23,560
I think these three are good.
1279
01:27:23,640 --> 01:27:24,960
So, maybe just...
1280
01:27:26,080 --> 01:27:29,440
We can have it in the background,
or that in front.
1281
01:27:29,520 --> 01:27:31,920
-No, behind.
-Or we can mask the...
1282
01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:33,480
See, the same kind of hair.
1283
01:27:53,720 --> 01:27:55,480
No more aiming at the States.
1284
01:27:59,280 --> 01:28:02,440
I have to stay true to what I do
and sing in French.
1285
01:28:02,520 --> 01:28:04,520
I have to do my own thing.
1286
01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:28,320
SEPTEMBER 28, 2019
1287
01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:30,400
-Is Julien already at the Stade?
-Yeah.
1288
01:28:30,480 --> 01:28:31,840
Perfect.
1289
01:28:31,920 --> 01:28:34,880
Perfect. He told me exactly
how many tickets are unsold.
1290
01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:36,680
Eighteen. There are 18 left.
1291
01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:38,640
They're the last.
1292
01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:45,520
Here we are.
1293
01:28:45,600 --> 01:28:47,720
D-Day. Just a few hours away.
1294
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:50,360
At this legendary stadium.
1295
01:28:55,040 --> 01:28:57,120
I had a good tour with Sexion d'Assaut.
1296
01:28:57,640 --> 01:29:00,400
And I've had two good solo tours
in France.
1297
01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:08,160
It's the biggest gig of my life.
1298
01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:13,920
We had to make it to the Stade,
for France, for Africa,
1299
01:29:14,680 --> 01:29:16,680
for the Congo, for history,
1300
01:29:17,120 --> 01:29:18,680
for urban music.
1301
01:29:19,120 --> 01:29:20,800
All of that is for us.
1302
01:29:29,280 --> 01:29:32,240
72,000 FANS
1303
01:30:21,680 --> 01:30:22,880
Stade de France...
1304
01:30:23,720 --> 01:30:25,880
welcome to the Fuego Tour!
1305
01:30:44,800 --> 01:30:46,240
-Sexion...
-D'Assaut!
1306
01:30:46,320 --> 01:30:47,800
-Sexion...
-D'Assaut!
1307
01:30:47,880 --> 01:30:49,200
-Sexion...
-D'Assaut!
1308
01:30:57,120 --> 01:30:57,960
Thank you!
1309
01:31:14,240 --> 01:31:17,320
The Stade de France...
it was all about emotion.
1310
01:31:17,720 --> 01:31:20,040
It was phenomenal!
1311
01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:15,280
He's done it.
1312
01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:17,200
Now what's next?
1313
01:32:18,440 --> 01:32:20,000
I think he's made history.
1314
01:32:22,160 --> 01:32:24,000
Once again,
he comes out and boom!
1315
01:32:24,080 --> 01:32:26,560
We performed in the Stade de France,
and it was full.
1316
01:32:26,640 --> 01:32:27,680
Game over.
1317
01:32:30,840 --> 01:32:33,520
Yeah, I look weird in my sunglasses.
1318
01:32:33,600 --> 01:32:34,920
I never take them off.
1319
01:32:35,720 --> 01:32:40,000
But I assure you that I'm really grateful
for all that's happened to me.
1320
01:32:40,080 --> 01:32:41,360
Thank you so much
1321
01:32:41,440 --> 01:32:43,880
for giving me all this for so many years.
1322
01:32:44,280 --> 01:32:45,800
Thanks a million.
1323
01:32:48,040 --> 01:32:50,080
I'm the first to have done the Stade,
1324
01:32:50,160 --> 01:32:52,040
and that's important for urban music.
1325
01:32:52,480 --> 01:32:54,080
Nothing would ever be the same.
1326
01:32:54,440 --> 01:32:55,600
My friend
1327
01:32:55,920 --> 01:32:57,120
My future
1328
01:32:57,920 --> 01:32:59,200
My life
1329
01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:03,640
Forgive me my poker face
1330
01:33:04,400 --> 01:33:06,680
Full of sadness
1331
01:33:06,760 --> 01:33:09,800
I've had to lie to you so many times
1332
01:33:10,160 --> 01:33:13,040
Or pretend to be someone else
1333
01:33:13,120 --> 01:33:16,080
Miles and miles between words and actions
1334
01:33:16,160 --> 01:33:19,680
In the end, you saw through my acting
1335
01:33:20,240 --> 01:33:23,240
But listen to me, I can explain it all
1336
01:33:23,320 --> 01:33:26,320
At times, I've done things
I didn't understand
1337
01:33:26,400 --> 01:33:29,320
The night has helped me think
1338
01:33:29,400 --> 01:33:33,200
In those times, I tell myself
I'm going to change
1339
01:33:33,280 --> 01:33:35,000
Change
1340
01:33:37,680 --> 01:33:40,560
Change
1341
01:35:08,640 --> 01:35:11,640
Subtitle translation by: Howard Bonsor