Supreme NTM

The hard-hitting, frequently polemical French hip-hop group Supreme NTM was formed in 1989 by Dee Nasty, Joeystarr, and Koolshen with their DJ, Détonateur S. They debuted one year later with a track on the compilation Rapattitude and their first single, "Le Monde de Demain." Authentik, the Supreme NTM debut full-length, appeared in 1991, and the group made their American live debut later that year. The album was followed two years later by 1993... J'appuis Sur la Gâchette, which brought them to the attention of the French gendarmes (a la NWA and Ice-T/Body Count) with a song named "Police." The group's third album, 1995's Paris Sous Les Bombes, became their most successful, but also earned them a fresh bout of controversy. The song "Plus Jamais Ça" was an anti-National Front (the fascist/anti-immigrant movement led by Jean Marie Le Pen) broadside that got Supreme NTM six-month prison sentences for playing it at a concert in a city in southern France with a just-elected National Front mayor (shades of Public Enemy). Suprême NTM followed in 1998, eclipsing its predecessor in sales and earning raves for its inclusion of a new generation of French rappers (like Lord Kossity). ~ John Bush, All Music Guide