Lionel D

Deenastyle is a legendary French rap show first broadcast on Radio Nova between 1990 and 1993, which revealed a generation of rappers and marked a generation of listeners, back in 2021 on video, still with DJ Dee Nasty on the decks. A new format that combines freestyle sessions and interviews with different activists from the French-speaking hip-hop scene. The first show of 2021 will look back on the journey of Lionel D and the influence of Deenastyle in the French rap landscape of the time with interventions from M'widi, Iron2.0, RMC (New Generation Mc), Deadi, Dino Killabizz, Kohndo, Driver, Youval, Style J, G.Kill (2 Bal), Sheryo, Jaeyez (Afro Jazz), Les X, Cyanure (ATK), EJM, Hondo, Ike, Red Hurricayne, 2Spee Gonzales.

Between 1990 and 1993, at a time when rap was not yet on the radio in France, Olivier Cachin hosted a musical TV show on M6 called "RapLine". The show exclusively devoted to rap and other alternative music. This cult show presented all the facets of these emerging movements through interviews, lives and clips made especially for the show, around fifty clips were produced by RapLine. Another sequence of the show consisted of broadcasting new US rap clips subtitled in French.

On May 19, 1990, French rap pioneers Lionel D and DJ Dee Nasty performed on the stage of La Clef in Saint-Germain-en-Laye for what would be one of the first French rap concerts whose stage was in operation. full structuring. For more than 80 minutes, Dee Nasty plays scratches and instrumentals while Lionel D on the microphone alternates studio pieces, egotrips, freestyles on the social themes of the time and improvisations with the public.