MC Solaar Nouveau western (1994)
Anwar Sadat, Egypt’s third president, was the first Muslim Nobel laureate. His achievement? He made peace with Israel in 1979. Before that, he led Egypt into war against Israel to recapture the Sinai Peninsula, which had been lost in the Six-Day War in 1967.
This made him a hero in the wider Arab world even though Egypt ultimately lost the war. Sadat only got the Sinai Peninsula back through negotiations—negotiations that culminated in the Egypt-Israel peace treaty and earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.
However, reconciliation with Israel probably also cost him his life. On 6 October 1981, Sadat was assassinated in Cairo by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, who opposed Sadat's peace initiative with Israel.
At that time, against the backdrop of these historic events, a 12-year-old boy from the Parisian banlieue was living in Cairo with his uncle. Claude M'Barali, as his real name is, went to an international school and had just discovered the Universal Zulu Nation and rap music.
He would later go back to France and become a celebrated rapper in his own right, known for his complex lyrics and distinctive flow. Even in English-speaking countries connoisseurs listened to his music. And will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas even said in an interview that he preferred him to 2Pac in the 1990s. We're talking about—drum roll!—MC Solaar.
Doesn’t ring a bell? Then now is the time to get a taste of him and discover his 1994 breakthrough single "Nouveau western".
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