# Paradisiaque

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Paradisiaque
| type       = [Album](/source/Album)
| artist     = [MC Solaar](/source/MC_Solaar)
| cover      = Paradisiaque.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = June 17, 1997
| recorded   = 1996–1997
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Rap](/source/Hip_hop_music)
| length     = 59:53
| label      = [Polydor](/source/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](/source/Boom_Bass)<br />[Philippe Zdar](/source/Philippe_Zdar)<br />[DJ Mehdi](/source/DJ_Mehdi)
| prev_title = [Prose Combat](/source/Prose_Combat)
| prev_year  = 1994
| next_title = [MC Solaar (album)](/source/MC_Solaar_(album))
| next_year  = 1998
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)
| rev1Score ={{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/paradisiaque-mw0001007468|title=Paradisiaque - MC Solaar &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits &#124; AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref>
|rev2 = [Robert Christgau](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Daily_Mirror)'' deemed it "one of the funkiest albums you'll ever hear."<ref name=DM/> ''[Skiing](/source/Skiing_(magazine))'' 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](/source/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==
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{{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}}

==References==
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{{MC Solaar}}

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Category:1997 albums
Category:MC Solaar albums

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