Fez City Clan, hip hop Made in Medina
T he hip hop is everywhere, all over the world succumbs to flow, the diatribes of MC, fingers of fire DJs, graff, dance, poses and slamming beats. Not a continent that is not affected by this protean music who knows be furiously modern or pays tribute to other musical traditions while being open to sound very acoustic. You can do anything with rap, endless promises opens, remains only to keep them. If France is the second largest market in the world, besides the sounds are hardly legion. The American machine well-oiled makes things even more difficult than French productions are numerous, varied and good. The remaining space is even thinner. All the more reason to examine it, lift the veil a little and change the angle of view.
Moroccans of Fez City Clan formed in 2000 and have locked their current training a year ago and about half. Historically, an association that welcomes a host of groups, volatile and temporary members, various aspirations, MC, DJ, dancers, graffiti artists. The end groups of each other implode and give birth to a more stable formation: a DJ and MC based four Fez City Clan, the youngest is now thirteen years, including seven past rapping. The value does not expect the number of years they say. The first album was recorded in 2006, a mixtape last year, the next disc (Ghir Bel'Adab, translate "out of respect" 
is being recorded.
"Our words have become less violent. We talk about what affects us, our texts are involved. But in Morocco, do not abuse, there is the weight of custom. " It includes a hint that freedom of expression is not infinite and that some barriers still exist. Life of the Moroccan youth is the land on which texts are constructed of FCC: drugs, corruption, trafficking of all kinds, police violence, pedophilia. The "weight of custom," groups like Nass El Ghiwane have before them paid the price. This new generation is both aware and respectful of his elders and learn the pitfalls and limitations in a frontal engagement too.
For ten years, the hip hop culture emerges everywhere in Morocco, where the first group (The white dragons) recorded in 1993. Since then, all urban centers are blooming formations which claim, denounce and step into the breach, singing mostly in Darija (dialect) and French. To escape some form of standardization of products influenced by American and French sounds, FCC works, seeks to "avoid the cut and paste", exudes originality, playing on humor, derision. They recognize themselves: "we had to fall on the American and French productions. He had to listen to understand the influences and learn. "
Onstage, the four MC squabble, are adding to the choreography, set off valves, strike poses that take advantage of the frankly ludicrous as threatening. Their first dates in Spain, after the Festival Cartagena are On Pirineos. Of France has invited a date for the Festival Garorock Marmande, with Ice Cube. Rap is not going to stop in Morocco. It is already far away in Africa, where they dream to play, further south. In August, the Gabon that will welcome them, with Kerry and James Psy4 of rhyme.
by Stephane Andrieu
