The Yellow Vests movement is not just about rural, white discontent; marginalised communities in France are using hip-hop to find their place in the movement, and have their voices heard
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“Even people who did not like rap told me they liked this piece,” he says of the Gilets Jaunes song. Since then, Jimmy, as he likes to be called, has gone on to make other songs about the Yellow Vest movement. His latest commemorates theJimmy is 29-years-old, and his lyrics implore both the young and old to join the movement in the face of what he describes as a media “boycott” and attempts by authorities “to forbid us to protest”.
When the Yellow Vest movement erupted in November of last year, shaking Emmanuel Macron’s presidency, many at the time described it as the murmurs of a mainly rural, white population. Ludosky’s petition far from strictly reflecting the complaints of white ruralites also struck a note with French urban-dwellers.Hip-hop artist D. Ace’s videois a freestyle on the Yellow Vest movement and reflects many of the themes of the original Ludosky petition. The video has garnered over nine million views to date.
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