With “V”, Vald affirms his style, between modesty and eccentricity

In particular with the Beatmaker Seezy, the fourth album of rapper, full of biographical elements, seduced by the variety of its flows.

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From the first notes of his new album, V, published Friday 4 February, Vald gives all the elements of the style that imposed him as one of the best French rappers of his generation. To illustrate the flow of information on the pandemic, it delivers a sound slurry from which only keywords “we are at war” or “sanitary pass”. In a few measurements, it depicts the current climate on a funky rhythm, like one of its previous tubes, disagreeped, mixing biographical elements – “I made 6 months of Covid, I lost 15 Lokis” – Adidas slogan – “Nothing is impossible” – to provocations – “I am a plotting” – it all in a burlesque tone, mess, offset.

Younger, this obsession never to be in well-pensance, to always make fun of everything, played tricks, including the use in a nauseating reference clip like the Dieudonné Quenelle. Today more mature, Vald eliminates what was toxic in his speech, the wicked tacks to his colleagues rappers designed to make the buzz on the internet. It keeps just what is needed to not be completely smooth.

Multisyllabic rhymes

For this new disc on the cover of which a simple QR code, Vald did not make fun of his fans, which he calls his “IEN-CLI” (“customers” in VERLAN). They, on its social networks – YouTube, Tweeter, Instagram – have nicknamed “the vald fc”. The rapper of Seine-Saint-Denis has indeed a lot of fans, as assiduous and hysterical as those of a football team. Playing transparency, it tells in detail the frenetic life of a success rapper, his fairer marketing plans, his management errors for the title on a new album. In this piece, he promises not to abuse the confidence of his fans, remembering the “Ien-Cli” that he himself has been.

His rap, Vald considers him as a sport where you have to be the strongest. It multiplies multisyllabic rhymes, there are several flows on music essentially composed by its faithful Beatmaker, Seezy. On pandemic or papoose, where he grooves remarkably, he shows the extent of his American rapid references. It slows down its flow for a word and the listening title?, Continues on an electronic music composed among others by Danny synth to look at you. With Orelsan, he interprets in Duo Peon, invites the Belgian rapper Hamza and the Rookie Suikon Blaze AD, with whom he had already registered who says better, in collaboration with the flowers flowers.

Vald can be as casual as deep, adicious than exceptric. In Anunnaki, with reference to Mesopotamian mythology, it is more depressed than ever, undermined by the absurdity of life but from the following title, dropped, it recovered.

With this new album, Vald will delight his vald fc. He affirms his style, criticize the company without driving open doors as he tells it in a conscious rapper. However, it stays in its comfort zone, not still fair enough to write a true love song – he tries with cursed – he who nevertheless had a time thought record a sentimental album.

/Media reports.