MC Solaar and PostCo

Hopefully people will find this interesting, as we talked about rap the other day.

MC Solaar was born in Senegal (a French colony) and moved to France when he was very young. I thought of his work as we talked about hip hop and rap spreading over the world. We talked about postcolonial situations within the country of the colonized, not so much when the colonized ends up in the colonizer's country, which is what is happening today in France. Although we don't normally think of France as a country where there are racial tensions, they definitely exist within France today. You might remember the student riots a few years ago in Paris.

Anyway, here is the video. I can't figure out the embedding, so I hope you don't mind a little copy-paste action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n8kGW16RYs&a=2s8YkAZUYWU&playnext_from=ML


It includes imagery of both the old, faded idea of the American West, as well as the exploitation of American cultures to other countries. Does the America act as a colonizer of cultures, even when they don't have a physical presence in other countries? The song also ask questions about the situation of minorities in France, the violence they encounter, ect. Don't worry, the video has subtitles. :)