Hip-Hop Sampling French Songs

French hip-hop heavies bring beloved music into vivid new life by using samples of classic tunes as the building blocks for new-school bangers. The history of French music, past and present, converges when a rapper like Booba sets his street-smart rhymes against the twinkling piano of Renaud's “Mistral Gagnant”, or when La Cliqua wrap rhymes around a slinky Georges Brassens guitar lick.