M.A.P.

Le Ministère des Affaires Populaire — or just M.A.P., mainly because they’re frequently known — certainly are a politically billed French rap group whose musical design incorporates violin and accordion and therefore may also be tagged mainly because rap-musette. Founded in the metropolitan part of Lille, Nord-Pas de Calais, the group can be of Algerian history and made up of rappers Dias and HK, plus music artists Jeoffrey Arnone (accordion) and Hacène Khelifa (violin). M.A.P. produced their full-length recording debut in 2006 with Debout l? d’Dans for the Pias label. Stated in cooperation with Lille-based beatmaker Axiom, Debout l? d’Dans reached quantity 136 for the French albums graph and gained the group beneficial evaluations to fellow musette-styled French rap group Java. The four-track Grain d’Sel EP adopted in 2007, as well as the name track was among the ten tracks preselected to compete for representation of France in the Eurovision Music Contest. The next full-length M.A.P. recording, Les Bronzés Font du Ch’ti (2009), was stated in cooperation with beatmaker Stanko Extra fat and was partially inspired with a trip to Palestine in 2008.