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Forget everything you know about France: the city of love, famous towers and haute-couture, France is now the second market for Hip Hop in the world, right after the US!.There, French acts sell gold and platinum albums, they have guests like Nas or Wu Tang on their tracks and parties remind you of clubs like the Tunnel on a Sunday night. What's striking too is that record companies don't rely on US Hip Hop anymore to make some dough : now French Hip Hop is taking over and thousands of crew have emerged from all over the country. The biggest structure here is undoubtebly Double H productions, they truly control the country with their street teams, radio shows, parties and sales figures. Double H Productions wouldn't be what it is today without its original members: DJ Cut Killer and East (R.I.P.). Cut Killer is famous for the part he played in the menace II society-like movie "La Haine" where he plays a DJ beatjuggling Krs One's "Sound of tha Police" with an old classic song by Edith Piaf. Cut Killer is called the "French Fukmaster Flex" and you'll understand why when you see how active and busy he is. In the magazine The Truth, Cut Killer sums up his evolution : "I started spinning at parties, I've worked a lot, competed at the DMC championships and the transition to producing came naturally". Then Cut built his own label : " Along with my man East, we built Double H productions. At first it was just for the fun of it, then it took more weight". Year after year, Double H productions added more talented Djs such as Dj Abdel to its team and produces songs as well as compilations. One of the most famous compilations in France is the "Cut Killer Show" which is also the name of his weekly show on Skyrock, the biggest Hip Hop radio station in France. Another famous compilation is "Operation Freestyle "which helped discover groups like 113 or Double Pact. One of the first Mcs to be signed on Double H is Fabe, known for his lyrical skills and his commited topics. He dropped 4 albums so far, which places him right next to French pionneers like NTM or IAM. 
But the biggest success to date is 113. The name might be close to R&B act 112 but that's it for the resemblance. With their hardcore rhymes and ghetto style, they managed to get heavy rotation all over France and went platinum with their album "Les Princes de la Ville". 113 also received a French music award for best new group of the year.Today Double H is a powerful structure with amazing Street Marketing techniques for parties and artist promotion, it's impossible not to see a Double H sticker when you go to Paris. Double H is also very active in the mixtape world where you can find collabos between Cut Killer, Dj Abdel and Dj Mouss. Scratch DJs, you need to cope the Double H Dj Crew mixtape if you want to get an overview of what French Djs can do "scratchwise" and productionwise. Double H has always managed to sign licence contracts with major record companies like Sony or Universal to release Rap/R&B compilations where US groups as well as French acts appear. The last one, Hip Hop soul party vol 4 (Universal) went gold after only a few months thanks to a tracklisting featuring the dopest songs of the year. Cut Killer also played his own part in the Luc Besson movie "The Dancer" and also Double H produced the soundtrack to the movie "La Squale". Needless to say that Cut Killer and Double H productions are on their way to the top, watch out for some collaborations with US groups like Blahzay Blahzay, I'm sure you'll hear pretty soon of this label. Speaking of Blahzay Blah, check the news to see that mc Outloud is not so honest..... Here's a quick discography of Double H productions albums: EASTWOO CUT KILLER SHOW Doudou Masta- TROP LOIN LE PROLOGUE OPERATION FREESTYLE HIP HOP SOUL PARTY I - II- II - IV Fabe : L’IMPERTINENT, DETOURNEMENT DE SON, LA RAGE DE DIRE 113 : LES PRINCES DE LA VILLE --Tom |
