Ministère des Affaires Populaires

If Lille-based MAP (Ministère des Affaires Populaires) has often been compared to Java, it's because it combines hip-hop culture, its popular language and a form of insolence, with the sound of the accordion. The melodies, borrowed from the raï of their Algerian roots, are also reminiscent of Zebda from Toulouse. Whatever the case, it's thanks to a unique formula and concerts with the air of popular balls that this militant quintet, which brings together two singer-rappers, an accordionist, a violinist and a DJ-percussionist, has won over audiences. After the success of Debout La D'dans, in 2006, MAP returned in 2009 with an album with a content as explicit as ever, Les Bronzés Font du Ch'ti.