Olivier Cachin

Snoop Dogg is an icon. A gangster rapper who can be dangerous one moment and endearing the next. The documentary reveals him to be an American phenomenon through and through. Three decades of Snoop Dogg, filled with music, violence, movies, drugs, advertising, prostitution, and social activism. Snoop Dogg resolves all contradictions—casually and with a wink. Yet he remains the authentic, big kid from the troubled neighborhood who always just wanted to save himself. He turns this life journey into his own art form: Snoop Dogg – The Doggfather.

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.

In the early 2000s, the landscape of French rap undergoes a transformation, opening up to new horizons. A look at the birth, evolution, and legacy of an original rap that left a mark with its boldness and the novelty of its sounds and themes.

Since his arrival in France as a child, the traumas of exile, abandonment, and poverty have shaped the identity of Alix Mathurin. As a teenager, rap and the streets led him away from school. Endowed with a strong presence and a sensitive pen, Kery James quickly becomes the voice of a generation of young people from the suburbs who are aware that life and they themselves are deteriorating together. At the same time, he plays with fire within a gang of drug dealers and robbers. The murder of one of his friends prompts him to stop everything, both rap and the path of delinquency. Converted to Islam, he resumes rap as a missionary because he knows that his voice is influential.