My exploration of the Parisan arrondissments has been set to the soundtrack of 96.0 skyrock radio, "Heephop ay R 'en Bay." I think France has a different idea of what hip hop and R&B is. Yes, Ludacris is hip hop, but Taio Cruz is not. Maybe Ke$ha could be confused for the name of R&B artist but she is def pop. There was a time when Black Eye Peas was hip hop, but "Shut Up" is not. I love the station though (should not be surprising). I especially love the French rap. Désolé is my new jam. Another thing I love...that they play a disproportionate amount of 50 Cent. All eras of 50. From "What Up Gansta" to "Window Shopper." I think the French really like him. I distinctly remember in Nice on my last trip, walking behind a man who was carrying a boombox blasting "Get Rich or Die Trying."
Nothing is censored on the radio. Straight album versions. That's right, 50's "Poor Lil Rich" in all it's glory. I'm not the biggest fan of the Nword floating though the French airwaves. But they don't even censor curses in the French songs. I don't know all the French "bad words" but I def heard the Fbomb dropped in a French song.
*Addition* I did hear Amerie and Aaliyah as well as Nas and Method Man a day or two after I originally wrote this so I suppose skyrock is due a little more credit. *Addition*
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