For the 1985 French film, see Billy Ze Kick (film)

Billy Ze Kick (film)

Billy Ze Kick is a 1985 French film directed by Gérard Mordillat. It received a César nomination for Most Promising Actress.- Plot :Billy Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector reads to his daughter...

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Billy Ze Kick were a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 rock

Rock music

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 and reggae

Reggae

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 band from Rennes

Rennes

Rennes is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department.-History:...

 formed in 1990 composed of young musicians. To the non French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

-speaking world, information about them is difficult to come by. Formed as Billy Ze Kick Et Les Gamins En Folie, they split in 1994 after only one album. The singer Nathalie Cousin continued with a solo album under the abbreviation BZK. They reunited again in 2000, releasing a new album on the next year, and remaining active as of the end of 2006. The name of the band is probably taken from the title of a book by Jean Vautrin, later adapted in to a film on 1985).

The music itself usually involves the repeating of an incredibly catchy refrain with melodic rap on top, with influences on electronic rock and reggae. The lyrics of the songs tend to be about drug use. The band's biggest hit Mangez Moi (Eat Me) is about psychedelic mushrooms. OCB was another of the band's hits, and it's about the rolling papers

Rolling papers

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 made by that brand. The endgame videoclip in the game MDK

MDK (video game)

MDK is a third-person shooter game developed by Shiny Entertainment and released in 1997 by Playmates Interactive Entertainment in North America and Interplay Entertainment in Europe for the PC, Macintosh, and subsequently PlayStation. It was one of the first PC games to require a Pentium or...

 is their song Non Non Rien N'a Changé (No No Nothing Has Changed) from the album Paniac.

Discography

• Premiers titres (2003)
• Verdure et libido (2001)
• Paniac (1996)
• Billy Ze Kick et Les Gamins en Folie (1994)