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I especially like the way the song and video work together to collapse conventional distinctions between art, pop music and documentary.

Beverly Bryan on Alec Lomami

In his one minute, twenty second song “Fresh: Dans La Peau D'un Sapeur” and its video Kinshasa-born musician Alec Lomami examines the culture of the Sapeurs —  a subcultural group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose devotion to designer fashion contrasts sharply with the poverty around them in Brazzaville and Kinshasa where they gather to show off their outfits — and does it with more insight than anything else I’ve seen or read on the subject.

The song is produced by Lomami and PGMW and samples Jay-Z: “ You can learn how to dress just by checking my fresh.” Sung in French and presented with English subtitles in the video, the lyrics are written in the voice of a Sapeur. They matter of factly point out the complexity of the Sapeurs as a social phenomenon:

“These clothes cost me an arm and a leg, meanwhile my stomach is crying famine. Some people see us as fuck ups. Other people see us as superstars.”

The visual cuts together footage of Sapeurs in a way that neither glamorizes nor condemns, but nudges the viewer to question whatever image they may have of these fashion rebels. No hard conclusions are drawn, but he probes the Sapeurs’ world in a way that goes beyond sensational headlines and music videos that reference them exploitatively.

I especially like the way the song and video work together to collapse conventional distinctions between art, pop music and documentary. 

— Beverly Bryan, editor in chief at Soundfriend, writer for Noisey, Remezcla, and the Village Voice, podcast co-host of Songmess, Brooklyn

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CLT/NC rap on the come up

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Well$ ft. Alec Lomami - Heaven's Door (Prod. by Metro Boomin)

Well$ ft. Alec Lomami – Heaven’s Door (Prod. by Metro Boomin)

Well$ is back with sharp focus. Linking with Atlanta’s Metro Boomin and Alec Lomami, the 21 year-old rapper is delivering “Heaven’s Door.“

The heavy-hitter is serving as the lead single for his upcoming EP, The Way I’m Living Makes My Mom Nervous. With the project due in late March, Well$ is also kicking off a tour beginning today, February 25th, at the Cake Shopin New York City, with four…

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‪#‎PausaMusicale‬: Alec Lomami & Sammus - CLV (C'est la vie).

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CLV by Alec Lomami ft. Sammus