{{Infobox album | name = Paradisiaque | type = Album | artist = MC Solaar | cover = Paradisiaque.jpg | alt = | released = June 17, 1997 | recorded = 1996–1997 | venue = | studio = | genre = Rap | length = 59:53 | label = Polydor<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Bouton |first1=Remi |title=French language 'hinders int'l sales' |magazine=Billboard |date=Jan 24, 1998 |volume=110 |issue=4 |pages=71, 73}}</ref> | producer = Boom Bass<br />Philippe Zdar<br />DJ Mehdi | prev_title = Prose Combat | prev_year = 1994 | next_title = MC Solaar (album) | next_year = 1998 }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score ={{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/paradisiaque-mw0001007468|title=Paradisiaque - MC Solaar | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref> |rev2 = Robert Christgau |rev2score = {{Rating-Christgau|hm1}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=MC+Solaar|title=Robert Christgau: CG: MC Solaar|website=www.robertchristgau.com}}</ref> |rev3 = ''Daily Mirror'' |rev3score = 8/10<ref name="DM">{{cite news |last1=Hyland |first1=Ian |title=MC SOLAAR: Paradisiaque |work=Daily Mirror |date=6 July 1997 |location=Features |page=33}}</ref> }} '''''Paradisiaque''''' is the third album by the French musician MC Solaar, released in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mc-solaar-mn0000217328/biography|title=MC Solaar Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2lCpuFK9S8C&pg=PA303|title=And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years|first=Raquel|last=Cepeda|date=September 29, 2004|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-571-21159-3 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Critical reception== ''The Guardian'' called the album an "erudite but musically uneven variation on le rap francais."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Glaister |first1=Dan |title=MC Solaar Paradisiaque |work=The Guardian |date=11 July 1997 |page=T16}}</ref> The ''Daily Mirror'' deemed it "one of the funkiest albums you'll ever hear."<ref name=DM/> ''Skiing'' concluded that "Solaar mounts a ferocious lyrical attack, arguably stringing together more rhyming syllables than any other MC at work today."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Glass |first1=Charles |title=Show tunes |journal=Skiing |date=Mar 1998 |volume=50 |issue=7 |page=47}}</ref>
AllMusic wrote that Solaar's "good sense of melody turns the best moments of the album into fine pop-rap that is entertaining even if you don't understand French."<ref name="auto"/>
==Track listing== #Intro - :32 #Paradisiaque - 3:12 #Gangster Moderne - 4:05 #Tournicoti - 3:49 #Zoom - 3:53 #Le Sens De La Vie - 4:05 #Dakota - 3:58 #Illico Presto - 4:23 #Les Temps Changent - 3:18 #Daydreamin' - 4:51 #Les Boys Bandent - 3:18 #Les Pensées Sont Des Flowers - 4:02 #Wonderbra (featuring Bambi Cruz) - 4:02 #Le 11 Choc - 3:33 #Protège-Tibia - 4:12 #Quand Le Soleil Devient Froid - 3:51 #Outro - :34
==Certifications== {{certification Table Top}} {{certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Belgium|artist=MC Solaar|title=Paradisiaque|award=Gold|certyear=1998|relyear=1997}} {{certification Table Entry|type=album|region=France|artist=MC Solaar|title=Paradisiaque|award=Platinum|certyear=1998|relyear=1997}} {{certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Switzerland|artist=MC Solaar|title=Paradisiaque|award=Gold|certyear=1997|relyear=1997|accessdate=4 February 2019}} {{Certification Table Bottom}}
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Category:1997 albums Category:MC Solaar albums