2023-08-09 19:00:49
He is on tour, but not only for concerts. After the EELV summer universities in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) on August 24, the rapper Médine will be present at those of La France insoumise in Valence (Drôme) on August 26, before performing at the festival of Humanity, great celebration of the PCF, September 16. A revealing diary of the artist’s commitment.
Born in 1983, the rapper, whose real name is Médine Zaouiche, is the author, in particular, of the titles “KYLL” and “Grand Paris”. Beyond his musical production, he is also known for his strong positions on the left. He had thus supported the demonstrations against the pension reform via a charity concert in Paris in April 2023 as well as by visiting the strikers of a Total refinery in his native Normandy.
Committed against the far right, Medina had participated in a “counter-demonstration” in Le Havre on May 1, in reaction to the organization by the National Rally of a “Nation Day” in the same city.
Committed to “racialized” and “LGBT populations”
“We want social justice, we want to fight the far right, we want to put an end to the mechanisms of oppression that affect both LGBT populations, both racialized people, both feminists”, he had said in an interview with the anti-capitalist journal Ballast. He had also shared on Twitter (since renamed X) his intention to vote for Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2022 presidential election.
If the invitation of Medina has reacted so much to certain political formations and NGOs, it is partly because of the controversial remarks made in several texts by the rapper. In the title “Don’t Laïk”, released in 2015, he calls for ” [crucifier] secularists as in Golgotha”, and claims to put “fatwas on the heads of idiots”. Words which, after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, had not failed to shock and fuel a trial of complacency against Islamism. “Don’t Laïk is to secular fundamentalisms what the Charlie Hebdo cartoons are to religious fundamentalisms”, defended Médine in The Obs.
The quenelle, fruit of discord
On several occasions, the artist performed the “quenelle” gesture, as in 2014 during a collaboration with Skyrock. Medina had justified an “anti-system” gesture, when its detractors did not fail to make the link with the anti-Semitic humorist Dieudonné, at the origin of the gesture.
At “moment T” mentioned by Medina (2013 and 2014 for the photos ????), support for the polemicist was unequivocal. To discard, as he does, on imaginary “recoverers” – and to clear M’Bala M’Bala in passing – is the most complete hypocrisy. 2/3 pic.twitter.com/egEuSW3lkz
— Licra (@_LICRA_) August 2, 2023
Several Internet users have also accused Médine of homophobia, due, among other things, to the use of the word “tarlouze” in an old video. A subject on which he may have the opportunity to justify himself during the “text explanation” promised in Le Havre on August 24.
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