Shurik'n, member of the pioneering hip hop group IAM out of Marseille/France, released in 1998 his first solo album Où je vis (trans.: Where I live), that contains this single, Samuraï.
The lyrics by IAM and Shurik’n are typical hip hop culture, anti establishment, mixing eastern and middle eastern mythology with the socioeconomic burdens they’re born into. Especially in Marseille, where lots of people from the Maghreb region immigrated in the 70s, the poverty line is high because of underinvestment by the French government, what created isolated housing projects with no infrastructure, that keeps the people struggling up until today.
I was 12-13 years old when Où je vis, and IAMs 1997 album L'École du Micro d'Argent, released. Two of the most important hip hop albums to me growing up. Forever thankful for this!
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