"I want to edit my Victoires de la Musique" : Gims appealed "to french billionaires"

This year, Victoires de la Musique has infuriated many artists and audiences. The ceremony removed all categories that separate musical genres so as not to marginalize them anymore… But suddenly hardly ever named as a rock or rap artist, rap has largely dominated the streaming rankings (and regular record sales) for many years! This unfair and baffling lack of representation follows another controversy over the controversial naming of the rap and hip-hop category formerly called “urban music.”

Faced with these two problems, Gims thought long and hard and came up with an idea to solve them. The artist expressed himself on Instagram on Friday, August 5th. “The top 50 are almost entirely urban. And more of the urban French with the Americans at times. That’s a problem because they’re suddenly categorizing us. This urban album thing refers to it, like saying “This is the sub-album of the year”, it’s pejorative. We have to drop the ‘urban album’, ‘urban artist’… We’re going to talk openly to each other, Latin: actually ‘urban’ is just a word used to denote something else. I won’t go into details, I’m a controversial gentleman, but ‘urban’ is meant to denote certain types of people.‘ he denounced.

That’s why he decided to make a rapper”Tender call to French billionaires (…)“.”I want to edit my Victoires de la Musique. for culture“He said before explaining his motivations.”I am played everywhere, on all the radios, on all the televisions, and I am very happy about it. But this does not apply to everyone. Right now there is Naps or Gazo that spoils everything. This is not normal. These guys should be at Victoires de la Musique. (…) When there are competitions like this, we get the album of the year, the best beaten, best-selling, shocking album… This is what we have to win!‘ insisted Gims. Will his call be heard?

Hugo Mallais