OPERA PUCCINO celebrates its 20th anniversary! New remastered edition + 5 rarities

Rarely has a first attempt been such a masterstroke. Oxmo Puccino starts his career with an album that already shows his class as a complete and original artist. The production of Time Bomb is in the “boom bap” spirit of New York rap, carefully produced but from the outset it is the rapper's unique flow that strikes.

All in flexibility and induced rhythm, he innately possesses a rare groove in French rap, which is all the more striking as his texts are of an infinite richness, all in bold metaphors, in alliterations, in ruptures, in euphonies. ... This technicality, which is never flashy, is forgotten because the rapper establishes a kind of confidence. He doesn't raise his voice, he doesn't need it to be heard, the musicality of his rapping is enough to hypnotize the audience.

As for the themes chosen, they live up to this requirement. "The Lonely Child" draws tears with its veracity and the excellence of its writing, "Mensonger" is a chiselled social and loving commentary. Finally, the art of Oxmo Puccino , which made him famous, and which he was to develop throughout the years to come, was this skill in describing situations as if he were telling a film, with meaning striking image. No one knows how to rap thrillers like this man, "Alias ​​John Smoke" is a breathless blue thriller. And Opéra Puccino is a first major record.

CD 1 - Opera Puccino
1 Life Visions
2 Black Mafioso (Interlude)
3 Hitman
4 Who can deny it!
5 Dark Fear
6 The Alone Child
7 AKA Jon Smoke
8 Few Know (Interlude)
9 Love & Jealousy
10 24 Hours To Live (feat. Akhenaton, Freeman, Le Rat Luciano, Pit Baccardi)
11 Sacred Saturday Evening
12 The Day You'll Leave (feat. K-Reen)
13 Spell
14 Black Cyrano De Bergerac (Interlude)
15 Lying (feat. K-Reen)
16 The Letter (So Many Things To Say) (feat. Freeman)
17 The Law Of The Final Point (feat. Lino)
18 Die 1000 Times

CD 2 - CODA
1 Si T'aime Ta Clique (feat. 113 Clan)
2 Kijujqui?
3 Homeless (feat. Kerry James)
4 The Little Ones From Here
5 Die 1000 Times (Acoustic Trio)