Le Battle de James BKS 🥊

You had to work on yourself to succeed in putting yourself forward. It inspired Emmerich, who is our genius, our legendary genius, who likes to be in opposition to the rap contenders, precisely. Our guest VS something. And when we thought about you, he said, but it's going to be James VS the otherness. We listen, we don't know who's going to win. What's the point of becoming someone else? If we became ourselves, it's because the choices weren't so bad. Hi team, I'm Crow. And if I decided to start with this sentence written by Tonino Benakista in Someone Else, it's because today we're judging the battle. James BKS VS the otherness. The otherness is everything that is not us, everything that is not our own identity, our own identity. And in the first round, we'll see that James BKS has been very close to the otherness. By writing, by composing for others, he knew and he had to understand what he wasn't. He had to extend thoughts that weren't his own, understand inspirations he hadn't been inspired by. And yet, that's how we recognize great composers. In each of the songs he gave to others, we find a vision that belongs to him. We find this musical blending that is his own. This ability to adapt without diluting himself. And it's this talent that makes him win the first round. And in the second, we'll see that beyond having cultivated an identity in the otherness, as we certainly all do, James BKS now has the particularity of having been able to assume this identity, but beyond that, to have had the courage to tell it and embody it. I'm an author and a topliner for others, and I think that from the outside, we can't measure the difficulty of overcoming this positioning of writing for others. Even if we've been making our own music for a long time, and that we've always been able to write for ourselves, for our own universe, it's still a totally different step to take, to be able to find confidence, to be satisfied with how we present this universe to the world, and to do so. To find the rigor, to assume the entirety of the process, from creation to publication. And above all, the courage to submit what we are to the judgment of others. Wolves of Africa 2 is the culmination of all these paths to succeed in placing ourselves on what people commonly call the front of the scene, but which for us can sometimes look more like the front line. And by the way, in the third round, James made me realize that sometimes going to war in the front line is the best way to know who we are. Listening to these last two projects, I have the impression that it is built on writing. That his artistic identity is completed as his personal identity reveals itself. And it is certainly proof of his genius to observe that, despite more than 20 years of writing great music for great artists, he has never found anything bigger, deeper, more inspiring than himself. For that, James, bravo and one love. It's incredible. I'm moved. No, the analysis is incredible. Thanks to him. Thank you very much. Thank you, Aymeric. It's just, is there something that marks you, that you particularly remember in his analysis? I think, as he said, you see, when your message is sincere, no matter what people do on the left, on the right, you have to give it. You see, and no one can do it for you. You have to go, you have to work. We fall, we get up, we fall, we get up again, we learn. And for me, that's all my project symbolizes, actually. It symbolizes the fact of trusting yourself, of not having a posture, carrying your music, even if it's not the current trend. To tell yourself that it can be the trend that will come after. Of course. Build yourself with who you are and draw at the bottom of us to move forward. And have confidence. Completely.