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6. Back to the Roots
2022 - Season 1
After an exhausting series of concerts, Soprano, Mateo, Djamali, and Mej are burnt out. One night, Mej refuses to do an umpteenth encore and suddenly leaves the stage in search of perspective. The health crisis suddenly interrupts the tour. This forced break is accompanied by another tragedy: the death of Omar, the singer’s father. This is a shock to Soprano who has always had a complicated relationship with him. This tragic event bolsters a desire to return to what matters most: family and friendship. With his three best friends, Soprano sets off on a humanitarian trip to the Comoros - a chance to visit his mother and pay tribute to his father. A return to his roots that could bring the four men closer together, enabling them to stick together no matter what, despite Mej stepping back from the music, so that their friendship remains stronger than anything else.
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5. Everest
2022 - Season 1
Following the tragic events that have turned their lives upside down, Soprano and his friends need a new challenge: to organize a concert at Marseille’s Vélodrome Stadium. For them, this legendary venue is much more than a simple soccer field. It embodies their hometown’s identity. But they’ll need to fill it, a feat that would be hugely symbolic for a rapper who grew up in the Northern neighborhoods. While they’re preparing for the show, Mateo goes through a terrible ordeal when the mother of his child suddenly dies. Devastated, he must lean on Djamali who proves to be a rock for the group. The day of the concert finally comes: the stadium is sold out. That evening, over 60,000 people attend Soprano’s show. Backstage, all his friends are moved to tears. For the first time, his father attends one of his concerts, as does a distinguished guest whose presence deeply moves Soprano.
4. Nothing Can Ever Be the Same Again
2022 - Season 1
Sales of Soprano’s debut album take off, but French mainstream media shut their doors to him. The singer feels left out. Pursuing his deep desire to break from the codes of rap, he composes an ode to diversity, Cosmo. But the record company isn’t thrilled about this musical detour. Still, Soprano doesn’t give up. The video, made using images shot with a phone, is published directly on YouTube. The result: huge buzz with more than 100 million views. The song is a hit on all fronts and Soprano finally makes it out of the ghetto in which he’d been imprisoned. Things finally seem to be looking up when, suddenly, tragedy strikes the group. Sya Styles, a member of the Psy 4 who was supposed to join them on tour dies of cancer. While everyone else mourns, Soprano uses music to express what he can’t say with the song Roule, which becomes a universal hymn about grief. Shocked by the terrorist attack at the Bataclan, the four friends need an electroshock.
3. The Big Leagues
2022 - Season 1
Soprano’s depression has his friends seriously worried, so Mateo takes matters into his own hands. He decides to resign from his job where, until now, he’s excelled. An unparalleled salesman, he'd become one of the brand's youngest managers. Now unemployed and without a safety net, he wants to devote himself entirely to Soprano’s solo career. With the limited means available, the associates shoot their first video, La Colombe. Their self-produced compilations are selling more and more in the neighborhoods of Marseille. Full of hope, Mateo wants to conquer Paris. But there, no one is waiting for them: it’s a failure and the Marseille natives are looked down. To make matters worse, piracy is on the rise and their CDs sales are dwindling. Are they too late? After pushing on doors, Mateo finally gets a meeting with a record company. But after negotiating a first contract comes the hard part: Soprano has to make a hit.
2. The American Dream
2022 - Season 1
The Psy 4 de la Rime, the first group Soprano has formed with his cousins, go in the studio with Akhenaton. The legendary leader of the rap group IAM has taken them under his wing to release a debut album. Soprano works hard all day but, each night, he joins his best friends Mateo, Djamali and Mej, to watch music videos and discuss their future. Mej, the eldest of the group, fills their heads with dreams of America. A difficult childhood obliged him to work hard as a plumber while his friends were still in school. But thanks to those efforts, he was able to pay for a trip to New York. Once there, he discovered an entire culture and came back transformed. In America, their idol Jay-Z, from the ghetto, has built his own music empire. “So, why shouldn’t we?” The four friends decide to create their own structure. With CDs put together in Mej’s bedroom, compilations sold from hand to hand… a business is born.
1. Kids From the Ghetto
2022 - Season 1
Saïd M’Roumbaba, aka Soprano, has grown up in Marseille’s northern neighborhoods – some of the poorest in France. Son of Comorian immigrants, he is educated in both a French public school, which gives him a taste for words, and a Koranic school, where he discovers his voice. Irresistibly drawn to rap, the music genre emerging during his childhood, the young Saïd forms a group with his cousins - the Psy 4 de la Rime - much to the chagrin of his father who is worried by this all-consuming passion. In the 90s, Soprano meets his three best friends: Mateo, Djamali, and Mej. Faced with racism and a lack of perspective in their life in the neighborhood, they are profoundly marked by the French national team’s victory in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, which offers a new source of hope with the consecration of Zinédine Zidane.
