180gr vinyl. In terms of sales the French hip-hop market is the second largest in the world after the USA. From Afro-Trap to detached house rap, our neighboring country has been presenting an enormous stylistic range for almost four decades. The compilation "G?n?rations Rap Fran?ais" offers a nice overview of what has happened in recent years. In addition to IAM ("C'est Donc ?a Nos Vies") from Marseille, the compilation includes acts such as rhyming artist Passi ("Les Flammes Du Mal"), whose debut sold almost half a million copies in 1997, the group Expression Direkt ("Dealer Pour Survivre"), whose members Kertra, Delta, Weedy and Le T.I.N. are among the pioneers of Rap Fran?ais, the hardcore rappers Didier Morville (alias Joey Starr) and Bruno Lopes (alias Kool Shen) of Supr?me NTM ("Le Pouvoir"), and Fabe ("L'Impertinent"), born in 1971 in Martinique, who enjoyed great commercial success especially in the nineties, is no longer active today, but is still represented on current mixtapes.
