Over the steady beat of the cymbals, rap duo Lunatic find their pace and announce themselves on their debut track “Le Crime Paie”: “Wesh, wesh, écoute fils.” That was in 1996. Nearly three decades ...

The film served as a revelation about the grim reality of life in what the French call the “banlieue” — the deprived suburbs with housing projects — and took the 1995 Cannes Film Festival by storm.

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dayton hip-hop artist TINO got an email from a producer in Rennes, France. He gets cold emails semi-regularly about collaborating on tracks. Generally, they ...

Watching “La Haine” nearly 30 years ago, there was a sense of something inexorable about violence in the French suburbs. French director Mathieu Kassovitz’s critically acclaimed black-and-white film ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Watching “La Haine” nearly 30 years ago, ...