He meets at the Barbès brasserie, opposite the metro station of the same name in the 18e district of Paris. Normal for a rapper who chose himself as his artist name Guy2Bezbar, the verlan de Barbès. It is in this trendy café, emblematic of the gentrification of this working-class neighborhood, that he regularly invites his friends for a drink, ” Story, said the smiling and mischievous young man, to get out of “hood” [quartier en argot américain] without going too far. “ In his first album, Coco Jojo, published in November 2021 and which he will present on stage from February, Guy-Fernand Kapata, 24, tells about his daily life in the Goutte-d’Or district, rue Charbonnière, a few hundred meters away.
“Football made me serious, very diligent in my work, professionalized me. The discipline of training taught me to be regular, hardworking ”
He was born with his twin sister in a maternity hospital at Porte de Clignancourt and spent all his childhood and adolescence in this multicultural neighborhood also known for its cigarette trafficking, its extended Saturday market, as well as for the low angle view. on the Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre. Newly arrived from Kinshasa, his parents raised their children there with their meager wages as a worker and a caregiver. The district of Goutte-d’Or that Guy tells is not necessarily that of the National Orchestra of Barbès, not that of Algerian immigrants who bring back the cassettes of raï music from Oran, not that of the Congolese rumba either. cosmetics stores on rue Poulet. His is much harder, that of an area where crack consumers and drug dealers meet without qualms, described in his songs. Cracklanders, Where Baltimore.
His lyrics are also not those hyper realistic and committed of his elders, Assassin, Flynt, the Scred Connexion, collective led by rappers Koma and Mokless, who grew up in the same streets as him twenty years earlier: « When I started rapping he remembers, it was the Scred Connexion that made me write in the writing workshops. We had to have a real discourse, so that we could feel the quality in our texts. Growing up, I wanted to do something that looked more like me, bring a good mood, say whatever came to mind. Our rap is not that of previous generations, that’s for sure. “ His, closer to the American trap or the English drill, glorifies the luxury brands Prada, Louis Vuitton, enumerates his alcoholic evenings with the girls where he coos to obtain « one-night stand ».
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