The French Rapper Named Gandhi

Brut India

Is his first name Gandhi? Have his children ever seen him without sunglasses? Did he refuse to perform as Jay-Z’s supporting act? GIMS finally reveals the truth…

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00:00I know that my father liked Gandhi, the real Gandhi of India.

00:05It's fair.

00:11I did repair work in Vélib.

00:13I worked at Disneyland Paris.

00:16And that was something.

00:18I was with Lefa.

00:19We had to dress up, we had to play the game at Disney.

00:21We were in a hotel where the concept was Alice in Wonderland.

00:24Lefa, I think he was disguised as a card.

00:26It was the ace of clubs, I think.

00:28I was disguised as a weird candy.

00:30So when you're a candy, you always have to smile.

00:33You have to be positive.

00:37So you're up all day, you're a candy, the kids touch you.

00:40And you have to take a particular voice.

00:43Something like that.

00:47Yes, it's true.

00:48Gandhi, I don't know.

00:50I know that my father liked Gandhi, the real Gandhi of India.

00:55He found it stylish already.

00:57And he liked the character.

01:01Yes, from a family of musicians.

01:03Mostly.

01:04My father, my grandfather, his father, etc.

01:07It was sung in the forest, apparently.

01:09It goes a long way.

01:10I met an uncle and he said, you come down from the pygmies.

01:13So apparently I have a pygmy ancestor who sang violently.

01:15I would have been angry.

01:16Crazy voice, in the forest.

01:19Not totally either.

01:21But yes, I stumbled, let's say.

01:24I wasn't 100% SDF.

01:27Because from time to time I would go to places.

01:30But yes, I'm a pure product of the strip.

01:39These are crazy questions.

01:41I'll let you guess.

01:46That's not true.

01:47Yes, when I was little.

01:49When I was little, yes.

01:51When I arrived, I was a kid.

01:53In Kinshasa, there are no dogs.

01:54I saw dogs for the first time in France.

01:56For me, it was a dinosaur or a rare species.

02:00And now I have dogs.

02:01I have one named Drago in Mali.

02:03I have a German shepherd named Chocapic.

02:05It's the kids who call him that.

02:06And one from Gargantuan.

02:07Nikita.

02:11I was a fan of manga at first.

02:13One of the first, one of the precursors.

02:15I saw Naruto before everyone else.

02:17I saw One Piece before everyone else.

02:18When I see all the kids, they're not ready.

02:20In fact, they don't know.

02:21I knew the credits of a lot of manga.

02:23The credits of Dragon Ball Z from the Dorothée Club.

02:41It's true.

02:42But it didn't happen like that.

02:43In fact, it was a misunderstanding.

02:44With the assault section.

02:46It was in Bercy, I think.

02:48So Jay-Z is coming, etc.

02:50We wanted to rehearse a bit.

02:52We wanted to rehearse, etc.

02:54And they refused us to rehearse.

02:56We couldn't rehearse.

02:57We had to start right away, etc.

02:59We wanted to do a real stylish thing.

03:01It had been shot everywhere.

03:02Everyone knew we were going to do that.

03:03And they refused.

03:05We got our heads and we left.

03:11It was the assault section.

03:12I'm already in Racine Carré.

03:13Dang's album.

03:14Next one?

03:15Yeah, why not.

03:16I'm going to invite myself.

03:20The collab with Florent Pagny.

03:22It was in 2016.

03:24I started working with him.

03:26I was already a fan of what he was doing.

03:29We really exchanged.

03:31It wasn't a mail collab or anything.

03:33We were in the studio together all the time.

03:35And we worked, we worked, etc.

03:37And we learned a lot.

03:39Because he's someone who has a lot to tell.

03:41He's lived a crazy life.

03:42And he's got a great jacket.

03:43He's got a great jacket.

03:45He's got a plan.

03:46He's not going to give his plan away.

03:50Sting, yes.

03:51Marouma, yes.

03:52Afida Turner?

03:53Not yet.

03:59You know, anything is possible.

04:00I've seen...

04:01I've disguised myself as Dango.

04:03I've disguised myself as Donald.

04:04I've disguised myself as...

04:06I've disguised myself as...

04:07I've disguised myself as...

04:08I've disguised myself as Donald.

04:09So...

04:10I think anything is possible.

04:11It wouldn't surprise me.

04:19Almost true.

04:21On TV, yes.

04:22When I'm with my stylist,

04:23the whole team and everything.

04:25And we change outfits.

04:26In off, and everything.

04:28I can rip the outfits, yeah.

04:29It happens to me.

04:33I like Sokrat and Platon

04:34because they're a little bit

04:35the dads

04:37of philosophy.

04:39Well, rather Sokrat.

04:40Because Platon, Aristote, and everything,

04:42they only quoted his work.

04:44They even appropriated

04:46some of his punchlines.

04:48He didn't really like them, apparently.

04:50So they appropriated...

04:52There are always things like that in Soom Soom.

04:54They appropriated his sayings, etc.

04:56But yeah, it's...

04:57I like punchlines.

04:59I like beautiful sentences.

05:00So they were...

05:01There was a level, anyway.

05:03It's a memory...

05:05Wow, it's...

05:07It's hard to put words on it,

05:08to explain it.

05:09It's so big,

05:10it's so crazy.

05:15That I...

05:16I feel like I've lived it

05:18like a flash.

05:19It went by so fast.

05:20I'd like to relive it.

05:22I'd really like to relive it

05:23like someone in the pit.

05:25Because it was magical

05:27to see so many people

05:28gathered

05:29in this historical place.

05:34I'm going to do the Stade de France again.

05:38It disappoints me sometimes, yeah.

05:40Especially right now,

05:41nothing's happening.

05:42We hope it'll happen again.

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