Accompanied by the district that had seen it grow, the Werenoi artist, the number one of the album sales in France in the last two years, has been buried on Tuesday in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), held by his fans as a “credible” rapper, who told “truths” on the street.
In front of the green doors of the Municipal Cemetery, Nicolas, 25, finds that “is the class that is buried here, in its district” of Montreuil, east of Paris.
“I was seriously moved that an artist born here, from Cameroon (for his parents) as me, has so many ‘exaggerated.’ I liked how he put his words in the instruments. In Paris, in the zenith (in 2023), it was my first concert and was fabulous,” said the young man with Rasta hair, ensuring that his mother who lives with him. “
“Without a telephone, without camera, without camera,” says vigil in front of the cemetery. Some 800 people came, after the sentences in a complete mosque.
“Social misery, police, jealousy”
The artist with a dazzling ascent died brutally at age 31, in a Parisian hospital, without specifying the causes of his death. His disappearance was announced on Saturday in the social network X by its producer.
In the Jean-Moulin district, a 27-year-old man closed his business to go to the funeral. Note “Tommy”, evokes “someone simple, great, a good guy with whom we grew up.” He has always “sought discretion,” he says, including this total gap between his recognition among young people and his lack of notoriety in the main media.
Jérémy Bana Owona in marital status had been established as the artist who sold most of the albums in France in 2023 and 2024, according to the National Phonographic Edition Union.
To explain this success, “Tommy” says that “what he remembers is what we live every day, because even here, there are two parallel worlds: the world of Bisounurs and a hard world he told in his text messages: social misery, police, people’s jealousy, traffic also.”
YouTube retired musical clips
“People recognize themselves because they were credible, it was not a false image,” said Moussa, 33. “He grew up in the street here. He was not a rapper created from scratch to whom we put a golden chain and that ‘will shout’ in Marseille while he is from Avignon,” he says.
Yass, 22, seduced by its title LonelyHe repeats that Werenoi “had mind.” Before admitting that their words that evoked trafficking and violence were “hard.”
A few hours after the announcement of his death, his musical clips were removed from YouTube. Only audios remain online, including their last duo (“piano”) with rapper Gims. But his discography remains available on Spotify and Deezer transmission platforms.
Leaving the university, a 14 -year -old teenager, Mamadou, says he is “moved” for his death, but believes that “there is a lot of hypocrisy, because people who did not hear him now subscribe to his Instagram and say he was his favorite rapper.” “He told the truths a bit,” he added shyly.
“My heart hurts,” his death also entrusts Sohayb, 14, who will have heard The League. (“Always accompanied by its Beretta, it comes from 9-3 … touches the guitar, without opera …”). “His words are a bit difficult, but when he says them, how, I like it too much!”
The hidden appearance behind the sunglasses, “Werenoi never smiled, that is what also did his charm. And he was kind to his neighborhood,” said the university student.
Source: BFM TV
