Moussa Mansaly: "I come from a place where we accept failure as a normality"

Quiconque l’a vu jouer Mastar dans Validé, la série sur le rap de Franck Gastambide, carton du printemps 2020 sur Canal+, dont la saison 2 arrive à l’automne, aurait la trouille de s’en prendre une. 1,92 m, 46 fillettes. Mais le gars est tout le contraire : voix douce, gestes amènes, alors on le moque gentiment pendant qu’il monte la dune quasiment sur la pointe des pieds, concentré sur ses Jordan bleu ciel qu’il ne faudrait surtout pas abîmer.

Sam's (when he recruits) alias Moussa Mansaly (when he is an actor) is neither the big bad rapper of the series, nor "the guy of my building", as he sings in one of his successful clips, but justA guy who goes to the beach louble like a prince.

"I recovered the pair yesterday.It's a collaboration: the University Blue."Collab"?A collaboration, the third between off-white and nike on an air Jordan 1.Our man is a collector.In his closet, he admits having a hundred models of sports shoes."I have always loved it.In the neighborhood, when you released a new pair, that meant that you had money and that you had a taste.You put air max shark, you were someone, "he tried to explain when we take a break at the top of the dune.The kind of moment when we try to hide under the sand your own soulless shoes.

In the south, the view extends over the pinema, the lighthouse and, beyond the Arcachon basin, up to the large dune of the pilat which degorges its sandy stomach on the sea.To the west, in front of us, the ocean.Colonized by the Bordeaux bourgeoisie in the last century, Cap Ferret, a large band that closes the basin facing the waves of the Atlantic, scattered its rhythn villas, its centenary trees and its peaceful money for kilometers ... Absolute contrast with the Cité Dravemont,In Floirac, a suburb of Bordeaux on the north shore of the Garonne, where Moussa Mansaly grew up.

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We imagine it child.His father, Aliou, treasurer of the Union of Senegalese workers in France, pillar of the Ford factory in Blanquefort, filling the cooler, embarking on her picnic sisters under the big pines with a family of neighbors, the Sané.The kid then testifies to the contrast: "It was there, that for the first time I was confronted with racism.A woman who says to her husband looking at us: “Come, I do not stay with these people."My father cracked, I had never seen him insulting people like.»»

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