Yveline Ruaud

In the early 2000s, the "Dégaine ton Style" rap battle is organized in Les Ulis, a new town located on the outskirts of Essonne as per the territorial development plans. In these estates lost amid fields, neighborhoods assert themselves, making their verbal jousts one of the hotspots of French rap.

One afternoon at Trocadero, four young men tell us their perception of public space and how they occupy it, the group effect giving them the strength to make this forbidden city their own.