“I come from a place where failure is accepted as normal”

Anyone who has seen him play Mastar in Valid, the series on the rap of Franck Gastambide, box of spring 2020 on Canal +, whose season 2 arrives in the fall, would be scared to take one. 1.92 m, 46 girls. But the guy is just the opposite: soft voice, friendly gestures, so we make fun of him gently while he climbs the dune almost on tiptoe, focused on his sky blue Jordan’s that shouldn’t be damaged.

Sam’s (when he raps) aka Moussa Mansaly (when he is an actor) is neither the big bad rapper of the series, nor ” the guy from my building, as he sings in one of his hit music videos, but just some guy going to the beach shod like a prince.

“I picked up the pair yesterday. It’s a recent collaboration: 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 to having a hundred models of sports shoes. “I have always loved it. In the neighborhood, when you released a new pair, it meant you had money and you had taste. You wore sharks, you were somebody », He tries to explain while we take a break at the top of the dune. The kind of moment when you try to hide your own soulless shoes under the sand.

To the south, the view extends over the cimaise of the pines, the lighthouse and, beyond the Arcachon basin, to the large dune of Pilat which empties its sandy belly on the sea. To the west, facing to us, the ocean. Colonized by the Bordeaux bourgeoisie in the last century, Cap Ferret, a vast strip which closes the basin facing the waves of the Atlantic, scatter its laughing villas, its hundred-year-old trees and its peaceful money for kilometers … Absolute contrast with the city of Dravemont, in Floirac, a suburb of Bordeaux on the north bank of the Garonne, where Moussa Mansaly grew up.

“The beach at 10 francs”

We imagine him as a child. His father, Aliou, treasurer of the Senegalese Workers Union in France, pillar of the Ford factory in Blanquefort, filling the cooler, taking him with his sisters to picnic under the tall pines with a family of neighbors, the Sané . The kid at the time testifies to the contrast: “It was there that for the first time I was confronted with racism. A woman who said to her husband looking at us: “Come on, I am not staying with these people.” My father broke down, I had never seen him insult people like that. “

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