Between footballer Kylian Mbappé and rapper Orelsan, war is declared! The captain of the French team and owner of the Stade Malherbe Caen did not like a punchline concerning him in the song "La petite voix" present on the artist's latest album unveiled on Friday.
Published on: 07/11/2025 - 19:42
“One hundred percent of the guys who insult me on X have P.P. football.” By rapping that in the song Osaka from his new album, rapper Orelsan was probably not thinking of Kylian Mbappé. The Norman artist, real name Aurélien Cotentin, finds himself in a clash with Kylian Mbappé, after a joke during a piece from his latest album.
The Norman rapper released his fifth solo album on Friday November 7, entitled “La Fuite en avant”. Over the course of 17 titles, he recounts the downside of fame, his anxieties over fatherhood, all with Asian sounds, referring to his film "Yoroi", currently in cinemas.
As usual, he does not fail to make reference to his favorite football club, Stade Malherbe de Caen, recently relegated to the third French tier: "Proud of my city, even in Ligue 3", he raps on the song Osaka.
“You are going to sink your city like the Mbappé”
But on the song "The Little Voice", at the turn of a punchline, he drops a strong attack on the new owners of the club, the Mbappé family: "Yeah, you're going to sink your city like the Mbappés", he blurts out.
Kylian Mbappé and his family have become majority shareholders of the Caen club. But the Mbappé adventure with Malherbe got off to a bad start. At the end of the first year in office, the club moved down from Ligue 2 to the National for the first time since 1984.
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In the song "Osaka", Orelsan asserted that "100% of the guys who insult me on He probably wasn't thinking about that.
The fantasy of Orelsan shareholder
A disproportionate media outing? Listening to the rest of the piece, the valve seems to be taken to the second, or even the 36th degree... In the song; Orelsan raps from the point of the "little inner voice" of his doubts which belittles and insults him, targeting his career and even his whole life. This successively attacks himself, his wife, his city and even his fans... In short, not just the Mbappé.
The previous shareholder, Pierre-Antoine Capton, had made the rapper attached to the city and the club a mascot and ambassador for Malherbe. And Orelsan has often expressed his dream of giving a concert at the Ornano stadium, the Caen venue. On the other hand, Orelsan's entry into the club's capital is a fan's fantasy. “Rumors,” Orelsan commented in L’Équipe at the end of October. Before specifying: “It’s an old thing, there’s never been anything concrete.”
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Social plan and sporting escheat
This spotlight is not likely to help the already complicated situation of the club which validated at the beginning of the week an employment protection plan (PSE), the second in four years, with twenty unemployed people at stake.
And on the pitch, with only one victory in its last eight matches, the team is vegetating in the soft underbelly of the National (9th) while it aspired to quickly move up to Ligue 2.
In short, the words of a song on the album "Le chant des merrens" are, 14 years later, still relevant: "betting half your salary that Caen will win" remains "a bad idea".
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