How Diam's made the name "Marine" an anthem of resistance to the far right
Story Released in 2004, the pamphlet-like title has never aged. By taking up the punk slogan of "youth who fuck with the National Front," the rapper expressed her fear for the far right for the future. Twenty years later, "Marine" is still the title of a resistance.
Diam's sings "Marine" on stage. "LE NOUVEL OBS" BY HALEY/SIPA
It begins gently, with a few piano notes. A woman's first name, "a real angel's first name," the song says, "Marine"... Blown like the crack of a match catching fire. It sounds like an ode, but it's a call to resistance, which twenty years later became a cult text of French rap, anti-fascist, anti-racist. No chorus, just a slogan, recovered from the archives of the 1980s: "Youth fuck the National Front...
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