Since last November 7, the day of the release of “La chasse en avant”, Orelsan’s fifth studio album,
the improbable clash between the rapper and Kylian Mbappé makes a big noise. Reactions to this news have even gone beyond the footballing and rapological spheres.
Initially, the 43-year-old artist preferred to procrastinate in the face of the scale of this controversy.
“I’m not talking about it for the moment, I prefer to think about it than to react quickly. I prefer to keep my answers when they are mastered, in a good framework”, he warned during a signing session on November 8 at Fnac in Caen (Calvados).
Orelsan ultimately opted for subtlety. “The headlong flight came out two weeks ago, and I noticed that there were some who didn’t exactly understand the album, and I’m aiming at no one in particular”we see him ironically in a video, in front of a photo of… Kylian Mbappé.
Orelsan, an explanation of the text for Mbappé
“What it says The little voice so that’s not my opinioncontinues the native of Alençon. Even if we are
currently tenth in the National championship and that we were recently eliminated in the Coupe de France by the Bayeux team. »
58,556 copies of his new project were sold during its first week of operation. For the second, 14,147 copies were sold.
