In 1996, after a law was passed demanding that 40 percent of the music played on French radio be French, the radio station Skyrock became THE station to go to to listen to rap, and its influence grew to the point that it was Skyrock that could make or break music careers.
It's been a love-hate relationship between the commercial radio and the artists who need to get them to play their tracks - whilst resisting the influence commercial appeal has on their work.
1996 : surfant sur la loi sur les quotas radios, Skyrock s’autoproclame « premier sur le rap » et encadre son explosion médiatique. Depuis, c’est une relation d’amour-haine entre la radio privée et des artistes qui ont besoin d’elle pour percer mais rejettent l’uniformisation qu’elle impose sur la production hexagonale.
