I.A.A.M. 1404
Ma: Folie 2015
"J’ai rangé mes démons dans la boîte à gants / Sur le périph, 130 à l’heure, je cherche le freak show / Ma folie, c’est mon seul a tempo."
is not a commercial album. It has no gold plaque. It has no music video with a million views. What it has is soul. ma folie 2015
notes that the film questions truth, lies, and the "distrust of one's own perception" in a social context where everyone can record and post everything. The "Amour Fou" (Mad Love) "J’ai rangé mes démons dans la boîte Ã
Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the phenomenon is how it was distributed. It was never officially released on DSPs (Spotify, Apple Music) until 2018. In 2015, it circulated exclusively via CD-Rs sold out of the back of a battered Peugeot 206 at hip-hop open mic nights in Barbès and Stalingrad. What it has is soul