From rap to classical music, with metal in between, autumn promises a packed concert season. One of the highlights is already on the horizon: the final concert by the rock band La Femme on November 26.
Youssoupha, the ‘Bantu lyricist,’ on tour
If there is one place to experience rapper Youssoupha’s latest album, it is undoubtedly on stage. Suprême, released in January 2025, was composed after the previous tour by the «Bantu lyricist» and features a symphony orchestra and gospel choir. With his exceptional musical compositions, incisive flow and infectious energy, Youssoupha’s concerts have become communal celebrations where the audience and artist pay tribute to hip-hop culture. During the show, they routinely join in on one of his famous punchlines to outshine the competition: «You’d never heard French rap before!»
The rapper, originally from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo and raised in the Paris suburbs, dedicated his seventh album to the women in his life: his wife, Gigi, and his daughter, Imany, for whom he wrote the sublime «Dieu est grande,» a song whose verses went viral on TikTok: «You don’t have to be an ordinary girl/You don’t have to be Michelle Obama/You don’t have to want to be a mother/You don’t have to want to be a queen/Don’t listen to men, don’t listen to orders.» At his Olympia concert in June 2025, he challenged MC Solaar on one of his classics, «Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo,» and sang the chorus of his rap «Du ferme» with La Fouine. No doubt he has more surprises in store for the Zénith de Paris. The tour is wrapping up, but a few tickets remain. St. B.
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