Editing MC Solaar (section)

===1991–1997: Early success and ''Prose Combat'' breakthrough===
After the success of "Bouge de là", Solaar went on to support the American rap group [[De La Soul]] when they performed at the Olympia in Paris in September 1991. At the close of 1991, Solaar released ''[[Qui Sème le Vent Récolte le Tempo]]'' which went on to sell over 400,000 copies in France.<ref name="islandia biography"/> With the success of his debut album in France, Solaar embarked upon extensive tours of Poland and Russia. In December 1992, he performed in twelve countries across West Africa, where his French rap style proved popular with African music fans.<ref name="RFI on Solaar">{{cite web|title=MC Solaar |publisher=RFI Musique |url=http://www.rfimusique.com/siteEn/biographie/biographie_6039.asp |access-date=25 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061030044422/http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6039.asp |archive-date=30 October 2006 }}</ref>

MC Solaar released ''[[Prose Combat]]'' in 1994. It sold 100,000 copies in the first week of being released and became a bestseller in 20 other countries. In February 1995 he received an award for Best Male Singer of the Year at the 10th edition of the French "Victoires de la Musique" awards. Also in 1994, MC Solaar appeared on the [[Red Hot Organization]]'s compilation album, ''[[Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool]]''. The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the [[AIDS]] epidemic in relation to the [[African American]] community, was heralded as Album of the Year by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''.

Solaar returned to the studio in 1997 with longtime friend and producer Jimmy Jay to record his third album, ''[[Paradisiaque]]''. The album was another success, which led to an extensive European tour starting on 9 January 1998 at the [[Le Zénith (Paris, France)|Zénith]] in Paris. MC Solaar toured internationally, including Germany, Japan and the United States. He was included as a guest on American rapper Guru's "[[Jazzmatazz]]" project and one of Solaar's songs was included in the Tommy Boy rap compilation in the United States.<ref name="islandia biography"/>

Early in Solaar's career, it was important for him to share the struggles and the different hardships for black people that had emigrated to France and tried to make a better life. Most of his music was dedicated to enlightening the population of a specific deeper message that connected to him in his life. "[...] he addresses the conditions under which Black people have emigrated to and settled in France. In the piece "Leve-toi et rap," he describes his Chadian parents' migration from Senegal to a Parisian suburb, the main stages of his teenage years and how he finally came to discover rap."<ref name="autogenerated1"/> In an interview, MC Solaar described the feeling of making a song and the thought process while just writing any part of lyrics that go into his music. "I write quickly, because of the music, he tells me. It's much easier if you have the music, the rhythm, but I am fast. First, I have taken in "everything". Do you never write before the music? Ah. I used to, he admits. But when I met the music, I changed."<ref name="Age of MC Solaar"/>