France, the second biggest market for rap music in the world after the US, will host its first awards ceremony for rap, R&B and Afrobeats music on Thursday, after years of criticism that the popular genres are woefully under-represented at the country’s mainstream music awards.
Rap, R&B and Afrobeats dominate streaming downloads in France in what is considered to be a new golden age for French rap, four years after the US hip-hop magazine DJBooth deemed the greater Paris area the world’s most successful city for hip-hop.
