NTM back to Francofolies, 22 years after their first disputed passage at the time

"Good evening", yells on stage Joey Starr with his hoarse and powerful voice. From the beginning of the concert, in a deluge of samples and cries, the three letters NTM are displayed on the back of the stage. JoeyStarr and Kool Shen return the Francofolies, 22 years after their first visit to La Rochelle. The duo is obviously very happy to be there. "It was easy enough to convince them" explains Florence Games, the director of the festival. "They really wanted to come, so we confirmed the date pretty quickly and we sold the tickets very quickly, early in the fall, we're lucky to have them with us" she confirms.

After thirty years of hip-hop, a few months of reformation, the two rappers are brilliant on stage. They tasted then 22 years ago, for their last visit to Francofolies, rap was scary. Didier Varrod, the former programmer of the festival, and journalist to France Inter remembers: "Arrive here, in the Mecca of French chanson, on this a scene that consecrates the great stars, there was something that went pretty badly … There are some badociations in La Rochelle that had filed a complaint ". But today, for Didier Varrod, they are "they guardians of the temple of this form of radicalism in hip-hop.It is they who gave their acclaim to the rap scene . " And by concluding this hip-hop evening at the Francofolies, behind Damso, NTM showed that on stage, the bosses always came from Saint-Denis.