music, culture and food is actually coming from here. and every time i come back to paris i m able to dig deeper and explore more. all sense of purpose this isn t like the subway. it s like a commuter train. for people commuting from longer distances, you know typically outside of the city center. the city is split into 20 interior neighborhoods that spiral outward from the center. encircling the neighborhoods is a ring road called the boulevard petition periphery. everything inside is paris propertyo proper. everything outside, the suburbs, also known as the banlieue parisian. surrounding the privr eek are dozens of suburban communities each with their own personality and flavor that fall under the umbrella of great are paris. but more tourists as well as many parisians never venture outside of the city center. everything in downtown is
visiting the venito today we can experience ingredients brought home by the merchants of venice and eat the dishes they created with them in their city by the sea. very clever people, with a taste for adventure. this is a perfect. this is technically paris. this is the ban yew. the six lane highway separates two places next to each other but emotionally and philosophically they are sort of a world apart. when was it you came for the first zblim i never came here on my own. number one comes to this neighborhood. americans don t who comes here in how would you find out about it? it s not in a pamphlet.
[speaking foreign language]. people dream and really go at it to come to the city, you know what i mean. maybe that s where this force of of, you know this kind of thing comes from. yeah. because i understand i grew up in a neighborhood where no one eight oak cuisine. no wine, nothing. people working class just trying to make it. when you are not from this place you are more driven, like to prove yourself, to create an identity, you know, and i think i see that from the banlieue here is when people make it to the city it s like you give it 110% and you wake up and you re the chef of le clarence. chef pele s approach to cooking really resonates with me. while some may see this as non-traditional, to be honest this is authentic french
street feel like i was in tangier. go down another street feel like casa blanka it s that voinl in a city i love. how do you deal with going i m cussing i m not a quiet talker. are we getting in trouble. i m a pentecostal. i talk like a pentecostal. you speak in tongues. i was very single i watched people do it i m like, not me. that s when the jewish side came out. my wife is second generation black american in france. and then her father is french french but that makes. french french that s an interesting thing. always the aasterisk. right now, that whole dialogue is getting complicated. because there are certain conservatives that want, you know, people of color to just say they re french. which is weird because i think in america we re used to the-everybody in jersey is
the u.s. we are just starting to wrap our heads around the idea that people can come from multiple backgrounds. it s fascinating how this is going down in paris. and i need someone to break it down for me. someone who has a foot in both worlds. yeah, i don t understand why you got to be so quiet in church. where i grew up church was very loud. so this is a pretty significant church. yeah if you are a king in france. you governed in paris. yeah. when you died you were brought here. so buried here. every king. like they are here. mike lad is a american hiphop artist toured the world and spent the last 17 years in paris. he invited me to bass league sanity saint denis. all the way to in this great big black city.