Offering a unique listening and cinematic experience, the latest album – Deux frères (Two brothers) – of the French rap duo, PNL, urges us to think differently about socio-political issues like poverty, Roma and Islam within the EU.
Two days before PNL released their latest album on April 5, the French online newspaper Mediapart was already talking about “the PNL phenomenon”. On the evening of the release date, Paris saw the rap duo PNL and their supporters occupy the famous Avenue des Champs-Elysées with an exclusive open air concert. This was a few hours after a series of attempts from the Eiffel Tower to deny the persistent rumour that the concert would take place at the tower.
PNL consists of the brothers Tarik Andrieu alias Ademo and Nabil Andrieu alias N.O.S who come from Les Tarterêts, a high-rise district in the Parisian southern suburb of Corbeil-Essonnes which has become a symbol of France’s social problems thanks to constant media coverage. Through their cinematically and poetically unique artistic work, the two have become not only prominent French artists since their debut in June 2015, but also inspirational for (rap) artists all over continental Europe, especially in the German-speaking countries.
