Black M

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Black Mesrimes (2012)

Black M (born December 27, 1984 in Paris , real name Alpha Diallo ) is a French rapper . He is a member of Sexion d'Assaut and has also been successful solo since 2013.

biography

Alpha Diallo's parents come from Guinea and he was born in Paris. He started out as a dancehall musician and was a fan of Jamaican music before joining Sexion d'Assaut in 2004 . Lefa and Adama invited him to the studio as a spectator at a performance by the crew and finally recorded him. He chose his rapper name Black Mesrimes in reference to Jacques Mesrine , a violent criminal and " public enemy" of the 1970s, the modified name ending "rimes" being the French word for rhymes . He later shortened the name mostly on Black M . He became one of the leading figures in the collective, which was also successful in the charts from 2009. He also released an EP with Bakry and worked with international artists such as Major Lazer , Big Ali and Rita Ora .

After Maître Gims from Sexion d'Assaut started a successful solo career in 2013, Diallo made his first own successful solo release with the song Ailleurs in the same year . The following year the solo album Les yeux plus gros que le monde followed , it was released at the end of March 2014 and reached number 2 in the French charts. It was also successful in the French-speaking neighboring countries. Black M is known for his pronounced facial expressions and his wide-open eyes, the album title, translated "The eyes that are bigger than the world" alludes to. “Yeux Gros” is also one of his nicknames. With the single Sur ma route , the rapper had a number one hit , which took the top position in France for four weeks. The single achieved gold status , the album was awarded a diamond for 500,000 copies sold. The album was also released again in a bonus version with eight additional songs ( Le monde plus gros que mes yeux ) as well as in a live version recorded at Olympia in Paris ( Ley yeux plus gros que l'Olympia ) and could each time again place in the charts.

Black M had another hit single in autumn 2015 with the song Le prince Aladin . It was the theme song of the film Les Nouvelles aventures d'Aladin with actor Kev Adams and reached number 3 on the French charts. At the end of October 2016 his second solo album was released with the name Éternel insatifait (translated “Never satisfied”). After just one month, with 50,000 copies sold, it achieved gold record status in France. On the album he collaborated with the artists Shakira , Diplo , MHD and Soprano, among others .

In mid-September 2019 he released his third album entitled Il était une fois ... (translated: "Once upon a time ..."). It contains 17 titles, including various collaborations with French artists such as Bigflo & Oli or Soolking .

Controversy

After public controversy, a concert in Verdun scheduled for May 29, 2016 was canceled by the local mayor. It was planned to follow the official commemoration of the Battle of Verdun in 1916 in the city of Verdun. Diallo responded to racially motivated hostility from the French right by saying that his grandfather was a soldier in the Tirailleurs sénégalais in World War II.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
CH CH FR FR MOVE BE W BEF BE F
2014 Les yeux plus gros que le monde CH29 (13 weeks)
CH
FR2
diamond
diamond

(138 weeks)FR
BE W8 (100 weeks)
BE W
BE F125 (8 weeks)
BE F
First published: March 31, 2014
Le monde plus gros que mes yeux CH56 (8 weeks)
CH
- - -
First published: November 17, 2014
2015 Les yeux plus gros que l'Olympia - FR20 (23 weeks)
FR
BE W34 (28 weeks)
BE W
-
First published: June 8, 2015
2016 Éternel insatisfait CH18 (8 weeks)
CH
FR2
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(98 weeks)FR
BE W3 (90 weeks)
BE W
BE F99 (1 week)
BE F
First published: October 28, 2016
2019 Il était une fois ... - FR9 (35 weeks)
FR
BE W18 (8 weeks)
BE W
-
First published: September 13, 2019

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  1. a b Black M, un rap résolument réjouissant , Fara C., L'Humanité, October 24, 2014
  2. Black M - member of Sexion d'Assaut - now on the road with a solo album! , Chic Schnack, 2014, accessed February 22, 2016
  3. Interview de Black Mesrines , Skyrock, July 22, 2011
  4. VIDEO - Sexion d'Assaut: Black M se lance en solo with the clip de "Ailleurs" . metronews, September 5, 2013, archived from the original on September 8, 2013 ; accessed on September 29, 2019 (original website no longer available).
  5. ^ Black M in the SNEP Certifications database (France)
  6. Black M dévoile son new album Il était une fois [Sons]. In: RAPRNB. September 12, 2019, accessed on September 13, 2019 (Fri-FR).
  7. Le maire de Verdun confirme l'annulation du concert de Black M , in: Le Monde , May 17, 2016 (French)
    Black M et la bataille de Verdun: retour sur une polémique , in: Le Monde , May 14, 2016 ( French)
  8. Chart sources: DE AT CH FR BEW BEF

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