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We went to meet this highly acclaimed rapper in France when he came to London, in the district of Hackney, for the first date of his tour on January 31st. He is often described as the leader of 'Poetic Rap', expressing his open heart before going on stage. The French expatriates living in London, are greatly excited to see Georgio on stage for the launch of XX5 Tour. It was in the warm and cosy lodges of Olso Venue that the 25-year-old rapper from Paris took the time to answer our questions with a great nature and a lot of kindness. The rapper who was nominated at the 2019 Victory Awards did not hesitate to express himself openly about his beginnings or difficult life and the evolution of his journey whilst speaking very sweetly with his words about his past. Can you describe your Rap to an English audience discovering you? It's complicated... (laughs). I would say that it is a rap bent towards writing because I pay attention to all my lyrics by aiming above all to be pure and sincere. It is also melodious as melancholic. It forms a completely different mixture of energies. The image that often emerges of you in France is that you are considered "a Poet Rapper of the 21st century"... Is this an image that you want to put forward? Not especially. I'm not trying to claim it or deny it. It's hard to see yourself as a poet but it's super rewarding to be named as such. If people think that my rap looks like poetry, it's great, and I really take it as a compliment. You started to rap at 14 years old. In your new album, you take a lot of hindsight I find, as if you are taking stock of what has happened since your debut. At the time you thought you had made it? It's huge what happened to you! In 10 years you became a muse for Givenchy, you filled a Zenith... No, I didn't have that vision there, it seemed at the time to be the end of the world and be unreachable... But paradoxically, I always knew that I would make it in the sense that success was my only option. It was rap or nothing.
