Since 2019 and the release of his seventh album, La Nuit du réveil, Oxmo Puccino has taken a break from the microphone and music. A necessary, obvious breathing space. However, you can never do things over again when you have, as he does, a taste for rhymes and rhythm so firmly anchored in your heart. It was inevitable that he would return to the studio. And, better still, to the roots of things: rap, pure and proud. The kind of rap that inspired Oxmo Puccino in the first place, the kind that has brought him to fame time and time again since Opéra Puccino, and the kind that has never left him, despite the furrows of a career now almost three decades long. 2025 looks set to be the year of the return of Black Barry White, who has chosen the stage to celebrate his reunion with his fans, heralding the release of a final album in the form of a legacy to bid farewell to a public and a movement with which he has shared so much.