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Our newsletter hand-delivers the best bits to your inbox. Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions. Gearing up for a trip to the City of Light? Get in the mood with our run-down of the absolute best songs about Paris. Paris has been a go-to subject for artists of all stripes, across every medium for generations β just check out these films where the City of Light very much gets top billing.
From nostalgic and subversive locals who capture the real essence of life in this miraculous city to wide-eyed foreign visitors riffing about what it is that makes it such a magnet for outsiders, these are the absolute best songs about Paris according to us. Been there, done that? Think again, my friend.
In it, he remembers a hungry yet contented childhood spent toiling away at artworks in this northern area of Paris, which has today, in parts, become a victim of its own success.
Notorious for rubbing the authorities up the wrong way, the two rappers tackle gang life in the Seine-Saint-Denis banlieues. On the title track, they reminisce about adrenaline-fuelled nights spent spray-painting their neighbourhood walls, with plenty of shout-outs to graffiti gangs like the Funky COP and the 93 crew.
