Congolese Rapper Digs the Rule of Law

If you don’t know the story of the record, the new one, it looks like a Christian record; it looks like I’m getting baptized. But I do like it because it’s related to the video for ” Karibu Ya Bintou .” The whole idea is related to the fact that my name, “Baloji,” shocked a lot of people in the Congo because it means “sorcerers.” Actually, it means “a group of sorcerers.” Everywhere I go in the Congo, especially when I did the tour last year, everyone was like, “You need to change your name and get baptized right away, or else you will carry the sorcerer with you, the bad force with you.” I didn’t get baptized, but at least I can show them the cover.

— ” An Interview with the Rapper Baloji .” The rule-of-law stuff can be found in this very stylish video (” l’ état de droit est essentiel / à nos ethnies unies au pluriel “).