Quelques gouttes suffisent... est le premier album studio du duo de frres rsenik, sorti en 1998. L'album est double disque d'or en 1999.Cet album est souvent considr comme l'un des plus grands de l'histoire du rap franais.
rsenik started as a band in mid 1990s. Until 1997, the group also included Tony Truand, a cousin. In 1998, now a duo, rsenik released their first album Quelques gouttes suffisent went double gold.[citation needed] A new album was planned for 2005, but the two brothers instead decided to concentrate on solo albums. Lino released Paradis Assassin en 2005, which was the name of a solo song on the group's second album.
Revered as one of the original rap groups, their music voices the disaffection of the French underclass, combining African and Arabic melodies and beats with French lyrics. French rap is filled with slang that is hard for even French-speakers to understand; whole songs are delivered in Verlan, the ingenious, dizzying slang in which words are reversed or recombined. Like France's chanson tradition, French rap is also famous for emphasizing lyrics, and the rappers are widely viewed as heirs to the chansonniers.[1]
In the late 1990s, Lino and Calbo teamed up with a group of rappers who were also second-generation Africans, on a collaborative project called Bisso Na Bisso, an expression which means "just between ourselves" in Lingala, the most commonly spoken language in the Congo region. Part of this group were Ben-J (from Les Neg'Marrons), Passi (from Ministre A.M.E.R.), twin brothers Doc and G Kill (from 2Bal), and Mystik and his female cousin M'Passi. The group embarked on a collective return to their African roots, featuring music with an innovative fusion of styles, that mixed modern hip-hop and zouk sounds with traditional Congolese rumba.[2]
The members of rsenik have engaged in various personal projects besides the band. Rapper Lino has released two solo albums of his own, Paradis assassin released in September 2005 and Radio Bitume released in May 2012. Both have charted in France and particularly Paradis assassin released on Hostile Records was a great commercial success. The title is a title of an rsenik album. In 2004, he collaborated in a music project by Kery James in the single "Relve la tte" credited to "Kery James presents Lino, AP, Diam's, Passi, Matt & Kool Shen". In 2007, he also collaborated with three tracks on rapper Stomy Bugsy album Rimes Passionnelles and in 2009, took part in Bisso Na Bisso's project Africa. In 2012 he signed with AZ, now part of Universal Music.
Rapper Calbo continued with a solo music career. In 2003, he charted in a hit "Trop de peine" by Lynnsha featuring Calbo vocals. In 2012, he released his solo album titled 6me Chaudron and in June 2013, he released his solo single "C'est l-bas" on Trfle record label accompanied by a music video. It featured another fellow Congolese artist known as VR.