1/28/2024 0 Comments Art rap![]() ![]() ![]() Tiakola: It happened quite naturally as we are often in the studio together. You’ve worked together in the past, but what inspired you to collaborate on an album this time? Tiakola: We recorded and mixed a part in London, which also inspired us to gain different inspiration by working with British artists for example. We also travelled a little bit for this project. We are both looking for musicality with new colours. Gazo: We already inspire each other a lot. What were your main inspirations for the mixtape? We had people in common at the time and we were even signed to the same label! When I was 15 or 16, we had featured on a song together. ![]() Tiakola: We both went to do sessions and spoke. We were practically sleeping at the studio. Gazo: We used to go to the same studio when we were younger, we all met there. Growing up, a lot of our generation were mostly into US rap. Gazo: In Paris, we listened to a lot of Rohff. I am the last of 8 children so I listened to a bit of everything. Tiakola: All traditional Congolese music, such as Koff and Werrason but also a lot of rap and R&B. You both come from African families, which artists did you listen to growing up? There was a lot of music at home growing up but it was the music videos, messages and lifestyles of American rap in the 2000s that fascinated me. My big brothers listened to rap while my sisters listened to R&B. Tiakola : At home, my parents listened to traditional Congolese music. What are your earliest memories of music? Honouring their Congolese and Guinean backgrounds, the album details experiences growing up in the suburbs of Paris, life and survival.īelow, Gazo and Tiakola speak to us about their first time meeting, key influences and the rise of French rap on the global scale. Blending ‘mélo’, an emerging genre in France highly inspired by melodic trap music, with elements of drill music and Afrobeats, the album is a fusion of both their styles. Released this month, La Mélo est Gangx is a 12-track album, marking Gazo and Tiakola’s first official album together. In 2019, he left the group and began his solo career, going on to release his album Mélo in 2022 and collaborating with artists such as British rapper Dave. Raised in the suburbs of Paris as the youngest of eight siblings, as a teenager Tiakola joined the rap group 4Keus. Five years Gazo’s junior, Tiakola had a similar trajectory into the music industry. ![]()
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