“It is my baby who leaves”: in front of a thousand fans promoted, the Belgian-Congolés rapper Damso presented in Preview on Tuesday night in Paris his new album, Beyahthat comes out on Friday and that he presents as the last in this format.
“It’s beautiful to share this,” said the 33 -year -old artist in the Trianon concert hall.
Some 1,300 fans attended a previous listening session organized by the French Transmission Platform Deezer. The rapper had already offered public listening to I liedPrevious surprise album published in 2024.
What will be the continuation of your career? “I finished the format of the album, it is the sound that interests me, not the format,” he said before the journalists, saying that she “wanted to make open recording sessions.”
From AI in one of his songs
This new album consists of 15 titles, including a duo with singer Sarah Sey and a song that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI).
“These are the choirs made with Ia. We try things, it is a tool,” said Damso, who says he wants to “focus on sound,” if the voice is artificial or natural.
The rapper has avoided its effects for the launch of this album, between the promotion campaign outlined in 2022 and the dissemination of indices.
In Cannes, the artist established the steps of the Film Festival, to REM: Episode 00A short film between science fiction and dystopia that accompanies the album. Active since the early 2000s, William Kalubi Mwamba, his real name, really drills 16 years later with Low battery.
Several duos in his career with the deceased rapper Werenoi
It stands out as one of the heavyweights of French rap with albums with cryptic titles (Ipseity, Litopedion) and with ordered productions, with a recognizable flow and texts without detour. Certain words considered sexist by feminist associations have been controversial.
Considered by his fans as a dark and corrosive poet, Damso does not save his music, between success and excess.
Born in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, fled the war with his parents. Posed with other rappers like Ninho and Graur in the title Congo for freeto report the conflict that has been placing the RDC for thirty years.
Among his collaborations, Damso shared duets with Werenoi, album sales champion, who died brutally in mid -May at the age of 31.
Source: BFM TV
