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...only le rap but a distinctively Gallic version of the standard salutation, "What's up?" Szup? is what American ears & hear, though in Paris it sounds more like an appetizer course: "Soup?" The genre has spawned one break-out hit, Auteuil Neuilly Passy, in which a trio called Les Inconnus (the Unknowns) ridicules the well-to-do who live in those three ritzy parts of Paris. MC Solaar, who was born in Chad, easily concedes that "Parisian rap is pretty much a U.S. branch office. We copy everything, don't we? We don't even take a step back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rap Around the Globe | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

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