Laco$ste/Eurotrash Forever
My favorite French rap group (via Belgium and LA's Koreatown) is about to hit it big. They're touring like crazy -- perhaps at a club near you. And they're very amusing. Download two of their MP3s free here:
Who is Laco$te?We are Laco$te, DJ Felldown and X, French rap group from Los Angeles, wow! We are rap, short songs, sometime more electronic, sometime more old school beats, but first we are party music. We are 1/2 boy from Belgium, 1/2 girl from K-Town. We like play with many great noise and rock bands. Sometime we have slide projections, and many costume change in 20 minutes. So now I ask you, who is #1 French rap in L.A.?
What is Laco$te doing now?DJ FELLDOWN: We recording an EP for Apop Records! We taking a vacation from the bathroom party circuit. We like the acoustic in the bathrooms, even if everyone is crowd in there. I would like to play in the bar mitzvah or yacht party. Then I would know we have had a big success.
MISS X, what do you think about native French speakers who (with a characteristic Gallic pride) point out after shows that they can't understand anything you say in French?X: Some of us have to wake up to the fact that there is a long-held and respected tradition of Asian girls singing in whatever language they want without any effort at good pronunciation.
Don't you think it's rather stupid to be rapping in french since you are in California?
X: Well, if you'd done your homework son, you'd know that French rap has existed in America since the beginnings of hip hop (cf. Melle Mel). Transversal virtualities? Laco$te is all over it. As Godard says, Histoire avec un es, baby.
Since some of us don't have the dubious/bougie privilege of speaking French, why don't you tell us what your songs are about?DJ FELLDOWN: It's quite fun actually. We rap about historical eurotrash, like the Baron Von Gloeden, who partied with priests and took photos of half nude adolescents. Which is also Mlle's ambition. And we rap about universal theme like maternal love, filial love, milkmen, and K-town girls. The K-town girls (les filles coreenes) is actually very popular song for us; especially the lines "Elle roule sa benz sur Olympic Boulevard, Ca crache les dollars, Ca crache les dollars..." Everyone who go to Los Angeles understand that.
But don't you have a problem with audiences not understanding what you're saying?DJ FELLDOWN: No, everybody love French. An important part of Laco$te is educating people to say things like "la fete" and "ouais ouais."
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