The Aulnay-sous-Bois singer invited Orelsan on his new album, “V”, with whom he shares the love of rap, irony and Geeks universes.
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Two days before the release of his new disc, the Rapper Vald (Valentine’s Day of his real name) receives in a luxury hotel in the Opera district, in Paris. He prepares an event for five hundred fans, chosen randomly among the thirty thousand who have already ordered his fourth album, V, on sale from Friday, February 4th. The walls of the intercontinental vibrate under the infribore of his new pieces. In the living room, all in gilding and red velvet dyes, chairs were installed to receive the public which, sanitary crisis requires, will not have the right to rise. Vald, 29, is a little disappointed: “I wanted to make a wild concert in an atypical place, but as standing concerts are prohibited by the government and we will only listen to the sound. There, we rule it but it is still a little too strong, “he says, the teasing eye, the face amaigri and the blond hair always a little crazy.
The rapper of Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) has not yet beat the record of his colleague Orelsan, who was, already certified gold disk before the release of civilization, the November 19, 2021, but he is on track. Both have in common the same love of rap, its good words, its outrages or its social descriptions while irony. Genuine geeks, pure Internet products, they recorded for V Le Duo Peon, a tribute to the video game of Warcraft III strategy, which, for Vald, is an allegory of the consumer society, the incomplete capitalism: “I have I had a theme for Orelsan, details Vald, a mysterious geek reference, more mysterious than geek from elsewhere. I called him and explained the theme and we managed to do this title. “
The two rappers first crossed on the Album of the Orelsan Account, Gringe, then Review when shooting video clips and concerts, but knew each other by considering each other: “J have the impression that we respect the same art, summarize vald. We do the same thing but not in the same way. We are both painters. “
Imaginary Worlds
Vald, he likes to blur the slopes, referring to imaginary worlds like the city Agartha, literary creation of the XIX e century. He has fun multiplying the flows on his songs, able to return to French that of American rappers – Eminem, Method Man or Migos -, and then poses a look often naughty and without concession on the world around him. From his first success, hello, he makes fun of the codes of the culture of the street or is the voice of a generation which resets constantly at issue.
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