Aaaaah, le Doc. Before supporting Sarkozy (yeah, really), trashtalk every cites rapper and making drunk appearances on TV, he achieved an enormous success thanks to this album. Whereas most 90s French hip hop took influence from East Coast boom bap, Doc Gyneco chose to match his beats to his hedonistic lyrics: Californian G-Funk was the perfect atmosphere for this. The record is indeed much, much brighter than what was done then within the genre, fusing pop, funk, soul and chanson francaise, and it thus resulted in huge commercial success. Most tracks are pure fun, even the darkest ones ("Nirvana"), but some are kinda cringy, almost borderline in 2020 ("Viens voir le docteur", although musically really good, isn't #MeToo at all and the dude would have been sued if it hadn't been 1996). Even though it's a pretty fun album, it's - you know it - a tad too long, overstaying its welcome with some unnecessary tracks ("Les Filles du moove" or "Celui qui vient chez toi", ugh). It's still considered a French rap classic, mainly for how popular it was. Cool, laid-back shit that would be a hard classic if you only take the best 30 minutes of it.
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