French rap | Hip-Hop and Politics

Keny Arkana is an Argentine-French rapper/ activist who is deeply involved in the anti-globalization and civil disobedience movements. Fuled by the fact that she was placed in a foster home at a young age, her tormented childhood led to her being anti-judges, anti-police and anti-system. She was one who definitely uses Hip Hop as a tool for liberation.

In 2004 she founded a music collective called La Rage du peuple, in the neighborhood of Noailles in Marseille, where she began to make noise.

Prior to that she founded a hip hop group called Mars Patrie, followed by another called Etat-Major. Her status in the French hip hop circles took off with the release of La rage which chronicled the Civil Unrest that engulfed France..

Keny Arkana also launched a series of local social fora through the association Appel aux sans voix (“Call to the voiceless”).

Her later studio albums include L’Esquisse 2 (May 2011) and Tout tourne autour du soleil (December 2012).

Keny Arkana –La Rage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Co1mfz23U