Trente-Cinq — Three Letters from Namur

An MC warms up a crowd, somewhere in Namur, some year in the nineties: three letters, a group you don’t need introducing, NBS, make some noise. That tape still exists, and so does the crew. Namur Break Sensation have been at it for thirty-five years, which in b-boy terms is closer to a geological era than a career. Trente-Cinq, published by Wal’Style, is what they pulled out of the boxes to mark it — 68 pages in black and white, A5, written by Guillaume Roose and designed by Julien Roose. Flyers, photographs, jams, faces. Not a monument, more a crew talking among themselves and letting you listen in.

Belgian hip-hop rarely gets told from the inside, and almost never from Wallonia. This does both, without the grand claims that usually come with an anniversary book.

The crew will be at the shop for the afternoon. Jihef aka Rage 156, the Brussels graffiti pioneer, will be tagging the capsule edition on the spot: 35 numbered copies, made in front of you and available only that day.

📖 Trente-Cinq — 35 Years of Namur Break Sensation, with Wal’Style and Jihef aka Rage 156
🗓 Friday, September 19th | 🕕 4 – 7 P.M.
📍 Le Grand Jeu, 15 passage de Ménilmontant, Paris 11