In Sète, a more militant than ever Demi-Festival with Ben PLG

At the Demi-Festival, rappers don't do things by halves. Invited by their Sète colleague, Demi-Portion, the thirty artists scheduled for the four days of the event, which ends on Saturday, August 9, didn't mince their words. The tone was set on the evening of Wednesday, August 6, with the group Arsenik and their famous slogan: "Who claims to rap without taking a stand?" The next day, Big Red , ex-member of Raggasonic, called, with his machine-gun flow, "to the antifa front" in the face of the trivialization of racism before singing his classic Bleu blanc rouge. On Friday, August 8, he was taken over by the Northerner, Ben PLG, who sang, with the support of the audience, the Italian antifascist anthem, "Siamo tutti antifacisti!" ("we are all antifascists!"), after recalling the National Rally's scores in his region.

Among the spectators, Marie, who arrived from Dordogne and is an activist with the Confédération paysanne, can't believe it: "I've been coming to this festival for two years," she explains. "Before, I didn't listen to rap, and here I'm discovering an incredible, amazing independent scene. I don't understand why we don't hear them more all year round." Ben PLG has an explanation in his latest album, Paraît que les miracles n'existent pas. In one of the songs, On tombe, on réessaie, with which he began his concert In Sète, he gently tackles those in the highly competitive rap world who are afraid of losing audiences to the competition. He raps in a rather unpolished language that Georges Brassens, one of his references, would not have disavowed : "The concu, it's bitches who don't want to give opinions for fear of losing subscribers."

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