The Ministère AMER (Action, Musique Et Rap) is a
French hip hop
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History
Beginning of French hip hop: the 70s ...
group from
Sarcelles
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, consisting of the rappers
Passi
Passi () is a hip hop artist who became famous in the mid-1990s with the group Ministère AMER, which included himself, Doc Gyneco and Stomy Bugsy. He is most widely known, however, as a solo artist, as well as a participant in many other grou ...
and
Stomy Bugsy
Gilles Duarte (; born 21 May 1972), better known by his stage name Stomy Bugsy, is a French rapper and actor from Sarcelles, France.
Biography
Born in Paris on 21 May 1972 from Republic of Cape Verde, Duarte co-founded hip hop band Ministère ...
(both of whom are also major solo artists in the French hip hop scene),
DJ Ghetch
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, and the
producer/
manager
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Kenzy. The group is also associated with other major French hip hop artists such as
Doc Gyneco
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and
Hamed Daye
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.
The group's name means 'ministry of action, music and rap'. Also 'amer' means 'bitter'.
Their first single, ''Traîtres'', was released in 1991, and it was followed by the album ''
Pourquoi tant de haine?'' in 1991. The second album, ''
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'', came out in 1994. In 1995, after their song ''Sacrifice de poulet'', which appeared on the disc La Haine inspired by the film ''of the same name'', provoked the French
Minister of the Interior
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,
Charles Pasqua
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, to attack the group in court. The court's ruling forced the group to pay 250,000
franc
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s of fines, but Mr Pasqua's demands for banning sales of Ministère AMER's discs were unsuccessful. However,
radio station
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s were reluctant to play their music after this incident, and the only station who continued to do so was Generation 88.2, an underground parisian station dedicated to hip hop music.
Members of the band began to pursue solo careers after the release of their second album, and Stomy Bugsy released his first solo album ''
Le calibre qu'il te faut'' in 1997. Passi also released ''
Les tentations'' the same year. After the success these albums enjoyed, Kenzy created the
record label
"Big Three" music labels
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Secteur Ä
Secteur Ä was a 1990s French rap association based in Sarcelles, France and named after a sector in the region. This music collective was created by the Ministère AMER, and artist Kenzy became its producer-manager.
The association was made ...
to accommodate Ministère AMER and other hip hop artists, such as
Nèg' Marrons,
Ärsenik
Ärsenik is a rap group based in Villiers-le-Bel, France, founded in 1992, and made up of two brothers, Lino (Gaëlino M'Bani) and Calbo (Calboni M'Bani), whose family is originally from Congo.
Career
Ärsenik started as a band in mid 1990s. ...
, Doc Gynéco, Hamed Daye, and Tandem.
In 1997, the group's two albums were re-released as a limited edition double album. Since then, they were inactive for a long time, but regrouped in 2005 for the compilation ''
Illicit projet
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''.
Discography
''Studio Albums'' :
*1992: ''