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International Artist Feature #7 - PNL

Posted: 30 Apr 2018 05:27 AM PDT

PNL

You don't need to know French, or be French, to appreciate PNL's songs. You just have to know intuitively that something is wrong — and trust only your crew to have your back. - Atossa Abrahamian, The Fader, 2016

PNL, hailing from Les Tarterêts in Corbeil-Essonnes, a banlieue of Paris, France, referred to by them as 'The Zoo', consists of two brothers, Ademo and N.O.S. Despite their many millions of views and streams, it isn't easy to find a lot of information about the two brothers, as they have chosen to keep a certain secrecy about the exact details of their life. French radio DJ Olivier Cachin was quoted as saying: "We only have their lyrics to go on. The mystery around them has no previous equivalent in French rap".

PNL have a very wavey, spaced out, autotune-filled but still lyrical style. I'd call it Lil Durk meets Drake meets Cloud rap, but it could be called many things. They speak on the life of balieue drug dealers, often with some interesting themes mixed in (Zelda for example), but also animal imagery, that stems from the 'Zoo' nickname for their neighbourhood. My French isn't good enough to understand 90% of what they're saying without reading the lyrics, but as stated above, you don't need to be able to speak French to feel PNL's music.

PNL released their debut album Que La Famille (which is also the name of their 'collective', QLF) in 2015. I'm not too sure what the impact of this album was when it released, because I wasn't following them at that time. I'm just going to quote this Fader article (also basically the only article on PNL where a journalist was allowed to hang with them afaik, so a lot of this feature will be sourced from that article, give it a read) on this album:

PNL's March 2015 debut album, Que La Famille, is a perceptible prelude to Le Monde Chico, released just seven months later. The groundwork is there, but it isn't as well produced, and the brothers' vocals are far more straightforward. There are a few standout tracks, namely the slow-burning "Je Vis Je Visser" with its chorus of 'I live, I deal, I'm bored', but PNL hadn't yet perfected the ambitious effects or hooky songwriting that make their next album feel so big.

As mentioned above, 7 months after their first album they released their second album Le Monde Chico, which is around the time I discovered their music. Le Monde Chico refined the style heard on Que La Famille, with better vocal performances, beats and mixing. The most essential song on this project is definitely Le Monde Ou Rien, which has as of today racked up an astonishing 90 million views. The video was shot in the mafia owned and notoriously problematic suburb of Napoli, Scampia, featuring some very eerie 'urban hell' type of imagery. According to the Fader article, the name of the song was used as a slogan in protests around France in 2015/16, the title meaning 'The World or Nothing'. This whole project is great IMO, as it is more refined than their first project, but it's still a bit raw and unpolished at times, which gives it a little extra. Other standout tracks include: Abonné, Rebenga, Sur Paname, but I recommend giving the whole project a listen.

In 2016 they released their third album, Dans La Legende. In my eyes this is their best, most refined project to date, but it's missing a bit of the raw energy of Le Monde Chico. Standout tracks for me include Luz de Luna, J'suis QLF, Naha and Jusqu'au dernier gramme.

I want to highlight the videos they released for this project, which together form a 4 part movie that details the story of a beef between different drug dealers (from what I understand and remember at least). The videos released were as follows (in order): Naha (Part.1), Onizuka (Part.2), Bené (Part.2) and Jusqu;au dernier gramme (Part.4).

As their video game is always on point, I want to highlight some other videos as well: DA, featuring a monkey, La vie est belle, filmed in Namibia and Oh Lala, filmed in Iceland (I think).

I'm not sure what the future holds for PNL, but they have gathered an immense (and loyal) following and it's been almost two years since their last album, so I'm sure something will come soon.

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Moronic Mondays - Weekly Question Thread - April 30, 2018

Posted: 30 Apr 2018 08:35 AM PDT

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