the main difference between french rap and US rap. was the lyrics, us rap mostly talk about money and bitches, french rap was close to poetry. lyrics were really deep, lot of punchlines, stuff about the government, the hidden reality of the ghetto etc.... you could listen to one song and see all the reality of your life in it. they used to work a lot on the lyrics. for example there is a rapper Rohff, in his first album he made a whole song using only one rhyme and actually the song made sense. Now they just rap shit, wanna be like US rappers. So i'd rather listen real US rap with a good flow than some retarded imitation