An aperitif with cut killer: “The anpe, when I said that I was DJ, I was asked:” Disquice at Fnac

Rhum unties languages. While he has just published his autobiography, Anouar Hajoui, alias Cut Killer, DJ Star of hexagonal hip-hop, confides to us: he could never become French, to his great dismay.

by Mustapha Kessous

That’s it, a legend of hip-hop. A 51 -year -old boy who hits you in his arms as if you were a little brother. Simple and funky. Seventeen hours and dust. Cut Killer, one of the largest DJs in rap in France, arrives in Florida, a Parisian café glued to the Halles. Soft light, red velvet armchairs, brilliant black tables like a vinyl. This sober, discreet side, a bit chic, describes it quite well.

This establishment is his HQ, the place where he takes his breath by whistling amber rums like too wild honey. “I grew up not far from here in Strasbourg-Saint-Denis,” he said. And it was 100 meters from his home that he fell in love, in 1987, at the age of 16, Technics chrome plates while watching Dee Nasty caress microsillons during evenings “at Roger Box Funk”, Globo, in the 10 e arrondissement of the capital. “My story with rap started in the halls. I bought my first records there. This district is the beating heart of my life, the soul of French hip-hop. If Brooklyn, the Bronx and Harlem had to be in France , they would be in this corner of Paris, “he says.

Sitting on the floor of the bar, he does not need to order: “Fafa”, the director, sends him a glass of J. Ballly, twelve years of age. “I started smoking and drinking the evening of my 30th birthday. I was organizing my birthday at the shower baths and JoeyStarr said to me:” Stop your bullshit now. “He introduced me to the rum,” recalls -he. There is a resonance between this liquor and cut killer: character, delicacy. And longevity.

“Cut” is thirty-five years of career, thousands of evenings, millions of titles spent, billions of scratchs … His nights were more beautiful than our days. To take his throne, you should sit on your lap. This 1.90 meter giant is still there, ready to put fever for hours in a small provincial club, or in a crazy nightclub, in Ibiza or New York. And in his radio program on Skyrock, the “Cut Killer Show”, which he has animated every Saturday evening, from 10 pm to midnight, since … 1996.

“We didn’t want us”

Sharing a glass with CUT is to plunge back in the beginnings of hip-hop, this movement that combines rap, graffiti and breakdance, out of the bowls of bitumen and still sometimes misunderstood. “It is a revolutionary movement which imposed a direction of life and said to people:” we exist “, he recalls. We were extremists of this music because it did not pass anywhere, we did not want us . “

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