A page is turning for SCH. Three years after the release of his album JVLIVS IIThe Marseille rapper returns this Friday, May 31, with the last part of his famous trilogy of JVLIVS albums about organized crime.
With this new album, called JVLIVS: Prequel, Giulio, the 31-year-old rapper returns to his roots and remembers the genesis of his character Giulio, a young Marseille gangster. A way for SCH to say goodbye to this saga in which he has evolved since 2018.
Gangster movie soundtrack.
In 2018, a year after the release of his album. Deo Favente and his signature on the seal Rec. 118, SCH decides to rework its image. Reveals a new universe with the announcement of a trilogy of albums, initiated by a first volume “Absolu”.
In this first part, imagined as the soundtrack of a gangster film, the Marseille rapper introduces his character Julius to his listeners and immerses them in his dark and violent daily life as a criminal between Marseille and Italy.
A true commercial and critical success, this album, carried by the hits Pharmacy, Otto EITHER Ready to goled to a sequel JVLIVS II Black Marketreleased in 2021. A second part in which the artist continues the story of the evolution of his character.
“JVLIVS is an album built in continuity, with the aim of telling a story, that of a young man who leaves a pharmacy and wants to end up further,” SCH confided in 2018 to the specialized site Abcdr du son.
But while fans waited for a JVLIVS III To conclude the trilogy, SCH surprised its audience by announcing at the end of April the launch of a prequel “Volume 0”: an album of 18 songs, without collaborations, to return to Julius’ origins.
Sure JVLIVS: PrequelThe Marseille rapper thus takes a leap into the past and returns to his childhood, lulled by organized crime, with titles such as cannelloni -Who was the subject? an original promotion in a Paris restaurant – and his beginnings in organized crime with Prequel EITHER That.
Cinematic inspirations
For this new part of JVLIVS, SCH also resorted to what made their previous albums successful: narration and images taken from the seventh art.
Inside JVLIVS AND JVLIVS II, the Marseille rapper took the narration to the point of punctuating his pieces with interludes narrated by José Luccioni, the French voice of Al Pacino, now deceased. SCH used this process again to divide their album into several parts with The recipe, The Renaissance AND The opinion.
A trailer and a short film with an aesthetic very inspired by gangster films, released on Thursday on YouTube, complete the album by the artist familiar with Scorsese’s films., In Godfather and the series Gomorrah.
“I have always liked cinema, and rap was missing clips. The visual of rap is very standard, it was the city with bicycles (…) I wanted to give it a new touch,” he emphasized in an interview with AFP in 2021 .
With JVLIVS Prequel: Giulio, SCH thus closes its trilogy on its way to becoming a classic of French rap. The Marseille artist is not done with music yet, as he will perform at festivals throughout the summer before two shows planned at the Accor Arena in Paris on December 9 and 10, 2024.
Source: BFM TV
