Stupeflip - Stup Forever (2022)

Cult French rap act is back with a new album: It is with muscles tensed under his mask that Stupeflip returns to business.

The evidence is once again carried by King-Ju (a.k.a Julien Barthélémy), standing on what is left of a France and a world in disarray. 'Stup Forever', Stupeflip's fifth album and one of his most interesting. There are all the characteristics that make him so successful: the determination, the melody, the slang, the humour, relentless beats, a dreamlike universe, and especially this will to continue to put its pointed foot in the buttocks of those who rot our existence (stupid bosses, atrocious neighbours, morons that we cross in the queue of the store, screwed up friends, lost charlatans, incapable presidents...)

With the virtuosity of one of his idols, John Carpenter, King-Ju stages in his music this world that goes off the rails with this freshness that belongs to him, summoning on lyrics, influences that he masters better than anyone: rap of the 90s, rock that does not shy away from the guitar and a certain idea of acid pop. It is beautiful and new: it is 'Stup Forever'!