Booba, SCH and Ninho: the Gold Coast, the first 100% urban rap and culture festival in Dijon

Large calibers Boba etc Child for the young wolves La Fève, Doria or Yamê, a hunting board Gold Coast Festival in Dijon, Friday and Saturday, announcing the color of this first edition 100% rap and urban cultures. Urban music par excellence, however, in the green setting of Combe à la Serpent in Corcelles-les-Monts, a few kilometers south-west of Dijon, is the Gold Coast – a reference to the Côte-d’Or – offers a line-up of about forty artists from the French rap scene.

The festival was originally planned on the old airport terminal 102 but, due to the success of ticket purchases – half by customers from the Paris area – the organizers chose to move it to a bigger place, with a camping area.

Enough for the 28,000 people expected each evening, attracted by a strong program. “It’s probably the easiest thing we’ve ever done. “almost apologizes Vivien Becle, co-founder and artistic director, who explains it with the “relationship of trust” woven by artists over the years.

SCH back on stage?

With his sidekick Christian Allex, they are used to working together, first indoors Recruits de Belfort, now at the Cabaret vert in Charleville-Mézières in the Ardennes. Two years ago, they also founded the urban music nights ANTDT (Antidote) in Dijon and Reims, “a springboard” for Golden Coast. And so they marketed their music with artists already proven on stage.

In their wallet, Booba – “A lot of dad rap. Like it or not, it’s been there for 30 years.”dixit Becle – which is long before the festival. Saturday afternoon, apart from “the Duke”, the public will be spoiled for choice: the Belgian Youssef Swatt’s (winner A new school on Netflix), the Marseille brothers of the returning Fonky Family, or the rappers Doria, Lala &ce and Maureen, the Martinican shatta ambassador.

The Marseille star SCH also announced for his first concert since one of his relatives was shot and killed and another seriously injured on August 26 outside a nightclub in La Grande-Motte, in southern France, where he was coming to meet.

After canceling two dates after this shooting, an interpreter saidOtto will he return to the stage in Dijon? “We know that every artist wants to play here and the programs do not change”sweeps away Vivien Becle.

All rap culture

Friday night will be celebrated by artists in their twenties – La Fève, Yvnnis or Favé – and finished with Ninho, a hit machine from the album Destin in 2019. The visitors of the festival will be young, even just teenagers, but the organizers want “counter” advance comments: “Young people who party, who have no respect, that’s not what it’s all about”assured Vivien Becle.

And if the public is there, it is because the proposal is full “lack”according to him. “We still have to remember that France is the number 2 market in the world for rap, behind the United States. It was a real anomaly not to be at a big festival that represented rap cultures as a whole.like the Ardentes in Belgium.

The event is expected to be a crossroads of urban cultures, including a 3×3 basketball tournament in the presence of players from JDA Dijon Basket and break dance performances by two schools, the Dijonnais from the style of Figure 2 and the Rémois from Studio 511 led by the former world. break dance champion Ismaël Taggae.

“Rap culture is not just music. It represents the connection with sport as much as sape culture, the decoration that can go with it, the dance…”he summarizes. “We try to take everything to mix everything: we shake the shake and bring the Gold Coast!