A deluge of sounds and images

The rap giant. For example, the R’n’B star performed in a Paris La Défense Arena crowded on July 15. Therefore, Alternating duos and solo sequences, the two accomplices chained the titles for three hours. Meanwhile, Even if it means grazing the disgust.

Dhe deluge sounds images his latest visit to France. Consequently, in October 2022 on the scene of the Accor Arena, we had kept from Kendrick Lamar the image of an avant-garde artist, pushing the limits of his art and capable of the wildest audacity. In addition, We had attended. However, amazed, a rap opera oscillating between experimental theater, performance and video art, backed by rebellious vindicts and lurking bass. However, Three years later. Furthermore, the rapper wrapped in five new grammys (music Oscars) did not drop the sound volume, but he visibly aspires to more simplicity.

To the point of this time to share the poster with SZA. Consequently, Star R’n’B Pop and faithful accomplice, since a first collaboration in 2014. Similarly, Two concerts instead of one? In addition, D’Eminem. Rihanna, the space of a few American dates in 2014, in Jay-Z and Beyoncé, via NAS and the Wu-Tang Clan, the concept of deluge sounds images the double poster regularly seduces concert promoters, with obvious perspectives: bringing together a wider audience, crossing the communities of fans. But a fiasco quickly arrived. Two days before. in this same Paris La Défense Arena, the double poster, the rapper 50 Cent and the singer R’n’B Mary J. Blige, did not attract crowds.

Last night. Tuesday, July 15, for the first of their two Parisian dates, Kendrick Lamar and Sza can boast of having made room. And the forty-five thousand spectators had for their money: three hours of show. fifty-two songs divided into nine acts, during which the two artists alternated solo sequences, and some duet titles. On paper, it was probably a good idea.

Just like leaving it to Kendrick deluge sounds images Lamar to open hostilities. Jean Large with sparkling patterns. black jacket, the rapper from Compton arrives behind the wheel of his GNX, the favorite racing car which gives the name to his latest album. After the first flamencas measures of Wacced Out Murals, The massive sound hugs bodies. On the screen that runs on both sides of the scene, Lamar’s video sequences answer ill -added questions are inaudible. But he is there to do battle: the brilliant Squabble Up And its throbbing chorus make the room jump into a flood of bass. amplified by the hellish reverb of the room.

Barely time to catch his breath than it welcomes Sza, to 30 for 30, first evening duo. The complicity is obvious. To her, the fragile and sweet refrains, to him the salvas of debited words beating. Then comes the intoxicating Love Galoretaken from Ctrl, First album (2017) which revealed Sza. The deluge sounds images greenery wall projected on the screen cuts with the black. white destitution of its acolyte, but the Croonent obviously chose to register its existential complaints in a colorful setting. Barely time to say that his R’n’B Pop mixture. as on album, blows the hot and the cold than, already, Lamar makes his return on stage. Alternating recent titles (Hey Now. Reincarnated) and past hits (Humble, Alright), The Compton rapper even dates back to his beginnings with the excellent m.A.A.d City, on which he pays tribute to the Sweet Love Singer Soul Anita Baker.

When Sza appears a few titles later, riding a giant ant (a nod to Beyoncé and her silver horse?) In a decor deluge sounds images mixing country atmospheres and psychedelic motifs, time suddenly stretches. As if to wake up an audience knocked out by guitar flights ad nauseam From the group that accompanies its partner. Lamar traces its route and aligns its ultimate “banger” (DNA ; Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe). Sza may draw her famous Kill Bill. Hit revanchard on an ex that she would see herself as desired, supporting her remarks with images of a religious mantis, the disgust begins to appear under the mass of puffy arrangements. Not Like Us. The title of Kendrick Lamar who sealed his victory in the verbal game with Drake during the year 2024, managed to bring the public to boiling one last time. But after fifty-two titles, the weariness is outcrop. On paper, it was a good idea to add his studio accomplice to him. In reality, it was less.