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Lous and the Yakuza is Marie-Pierra Kakoma, a Belgian-Congolese born in 1996. And what a pleasure to write about someone who unites purity\u2026 and gore! Appearing on the cult music show Taratata<\/em> at the end of 2019, Lous was the pearl revealed by Nagui, a presenter who had seen many others go by, but was amazed by her. There she presented her first piece, \u201cDilemme\u201d, produced by Spain\u2019s El Gincho, who created the sublime \u201cMalamente\u201d for Rosali\u00e1. Today, Kakoma is releasing her album Gore<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019s everywhere, from the Rwandan press to the luxury fashion house Chlo\u00e9, Colors on YouTube (with the song \u201cBon acteur\u201d), and now in Canada. It\u2019s hard to ignore all the signals that lead to her, but beyond the Lous and the Yakuza phenomenon, her life is no rosier than her skin is black. Rather, it\u2019s \u201cebony colour\u201d, deep red and violet as the cover shows. Gore<\/em> is adorned with an infinite number of musical colours, making you wonder, as she does on \u201cSolo\u201d, why black isn’t a colour of the rainbow. The lucid Brussels rap she offers can\u2019t be resolutely reduced to her feminine sensibility (\u201cDon\u2019t call me pretty, my crew is hot,\u201d from \u201cTout est gore\u201d), as her poetry is drawn from the half-light and can touch any human being. Nobody else could deliver lines like \u201cUne vie de merde, c\u2019est juste une vie de merde\u201d (\u201cA shitty life is just a shitty life\u201d, from \u201cDans la hess\u201d) in such a silken voice. Over music mixing trap melodies, R&B, and classical piano, her lyrics oscillate between hip-hop flow and a siren\u2019s call. And like a call to witness, her \u201cQuatre heures du matin\u201d could be the B-side of Ang\u00e8le\u2019s \u201cBalance ton quoi\u201d, with extra cruelty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But who is Lous? If we\u2019re not talking about power, we’re talking about strength. Strength of words, strength of character, aesthetic strength (check out her video clips) and vital power. And the strength to burst this gore bubble, with \u201cSolo\u201d, because if we believe Lous, we are born and die alone, with a life in between full of desire, love, revenge, violence, and above all independence. All of it expressed with a delicacy that avoids over-sharing, in order to make it a hymn to humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If one is interested in her name, Lous, Solo, Soul, these anagrams illustrate a multiplicity of universes contained in four letters, which the Gore<\/em> album communicates with finesse, and her Yakuza crew sublimates. Finally, Lous is a symbol, shaped like the letter Y with \u201cher hands raised to the sky\u201d, the meaningful emblem of a new goddess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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