Dubmatique are a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 group from Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

. They were the first French language

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...

 hip hop crew from Canada to break through to Canada's francophone

Francophone

The adjective francophone means French-speaking, typically as primary language, whether referring to individuals, groups, or places. Often, the word is used as a noun to describe a natively French-speaking person....

 pop charts. The group's style has an acid jazz

Acid jazz

Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly looped beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd and Grant Green are...

/R&B flow similar to Gangstarr and Fugees.

They have released four albums: La force de comprendre in 1997, Dubmatique in 1998, Influences in 2001 and Trait d'union in 2009. 'La force de comprendre sold over 120,000 copies. The self-titled second album sold 35,000 copies in its first week of release.

The group consisted of three artists Disoul (real name Jérôme-Philippe Bélinga originating from Cameroun

Cameroun

Cameroun was a French and British mandate territory in central Africa, now constituting the majority of the territory of the Republic of Cameroon....

, OTMC ) and DJ Choice (namely Alain Benabdallah). After releasing two albums, DJ Choice left the group, and OT MC and Disoul continued with guest DJs on the group's later album. Guest musicians on their albums have included Éric Lapointe

Éric Lapointe (singer)

Éric Lapointe is one of Québec's most popular francophone lead rock singers. His signature sound is characterized by very strong emotional lyrics, a rich, deep gravelly voice and the virtuoso guitar work by Stéphane Dufour...

, Shurik'n

Shurik'n

Shurik'n Chang-Ti is a French hip hop artist from Marseille, born in 1966. He is one of the members of the highly successful group IAM, as well as a major solo artist. With his brother Faf Larage , he also is a member of the group La Garde.Mussard was born in Marseille on 11 March 1966, with...

, Akhenaton

Akhenaton (rapper)

Philippe Fragione better known by his stage name Akhenaton is a French rapper and producer of French hip hop. He has also worked under the aliases Chill, AKH, Sentenza, and Spectre...

 and Ashley MacIsaac

Ashley MacIsaac

Ashley Dwayne MacIsaac is a Canadian professional fiddler from Cape Breton Island.His album Hi™ How Are You Today?, featuring the hit single "Sleepy Maggie", with vocals in Scottish Gaelic by Mary Jane Lamond was released in 1995...

.

Awards

• Dubmatique were picked as Best Hip-Hop Group of the Year at "Meeting International des Musiques Innovatrices".

Discography

• 1997: La force de comprendre

1. Soul pleureur
2. Dire
3. Jamais cessé d'y croire
4. La morale
5. Authentiques (feat. 2 Bal
   2 Bal
   2 Bal is a French rap group formed at the end of the 1980s consisting of Landry and Frédéric Mahoukou, respectively Doc TMC and G-Kill. Of Congolese origin, and living in Chelles, they launched their career in 1989 under the name BB MC....
   
   )
6. Un été à Montréal
7. La force de comprendre
8. Voir pour le croire
9. Mère Afrique
10. Rien n'est plus pareil
11. C'est de la bombe
12. Montréal, Paris, Dakar
    • 1998: Dubmatique
13. La vie est si fragile
14. L'Avenir (invité Shurik'n
    Shurik'n
    Shurik'n Chang-Ti is a French hip hop artist from Marseille, born in 1966. He is one of the members of the highly successful group IAM, as well as a major solo artist. With his brother Faf Larage , he also is a member of the group La Garde.Mussard was born in Marseille on 11 March 1966, with...
    
    )
15. Jamais prisonniers des stéréotypes
16. Trop dur
17. Babylone
18. L'original
19. Mémoire
20. La vie est si fragile...
21. Jeune fille égarée
22. Sèche tes larmes
23. Tout a tellement changé
24. Le rap français
25. La force de comprendre (Remix : Akhénaton
    Akhenaton (rapper)
    Philippe Fragione better known by his stage name Akhenaton is a French rapper and producer of French hip hop. He has also worked under the aliases Chill, AKH, Sentenza, and Spectre...
    
    )

• 2001: Influences
• 2009: Trait d'union
  Trait d'Union
  Trait d'Union was an organized caucus in the French Socialist Party.Trait d'Union was founded in August 2005 by supporters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon within the New World caucus...
  
  

1. J'assume
2. La vibe
3. Cold world
4. Que toi
5. Ladies night
6. O
7. Changer le monde
8. Life
9. Un autre brave
10. Hymne au Québec
11. Suave
12. Patience