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Subliminal is the debut solo album of French rapper Maître Gims, member of the French rap group Sexion d'Assaut. The 18-track album was released 20 May 2013 on Wati B and on MMC, the latter founded by Maître Gims himself. The lyrics were all by Maître Gims whereas the music was by Maître Gims, Renaud Rebillaud and Stan-E Music. The album was a big success charting in France (reaching #2), belgium (reaching #1) as well as charting in Switzerland.

On 2 December 2013, he re-released the album with six additional tracks he called La face cachée (the hidden face) for a total of 24 tracks, resulting in further interest in the album.

Promotion

The greatly-expected solo album was heavily promoted by Maître Gims in an announcement through his video "Welcome to the Wa Part. 4: La Consécration".

A series of consecutive releases of unpublished materials called Ceci n'est pas un Clip were released in anticipation:

Ceci n'est pas un Clip I: Teaser of upcoming tracks
Ceci n'est pas un Clip II: "Tapis dans l'Ombre"
Ceci n'est pas un Clip III : "De Marseille à Paris" featuring Bedjik (his brother), Dr. Bériz, H Magnum & Soprano
Ceci n'est pas un Clip IV: "Close Your Eyes" featuring JR O Chrome
Ceci n'est pas un Clip V: "Sharingan" featuring 1solent, The Shin Sekaï and Orelsan
Ceci n'est pas un clip VI: Bavon featuring Charly Bell

On 1 March 2013, Maître Gims also released "Meurtre par strangulation" (M.P.S.) as a first pre-release from the Subliminal album.

On 15 March 2013, just two weeks later, he released a second track from the album "J'me tire", that topped the SNEP official French Singles Chart.

Tracklist

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Intro"	Maître Gims	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	2:50
2.	"Meurtre par strangulation"	Maître Gims	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	4:24
3.	"J'me tire"	Maître Gims	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	4:13
4.	"Freedom"	Maître Gims , H-Magnum	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	3:45
5.	"VQ2PQ"	Maître Gims	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	3:42
6.	"Ça décoiffe"	Maître Gims , Black M , JR O'Crom	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	4:38
7.	"One Shot"	Maître Gims , Dry	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	3:27
8.	"Où est ton arme ?"	Maître Gims , Maska	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	4:28
9.	"Interlude"	Maître Gims	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	1:41
10.	"La chute"	Maître Gims	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	4:06
11.	"Ça marche"	Maître Gims , The Shin Sekai	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	3:43
12.	"Épuisé"	Maître Gims	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	3:48
13.	"Laisse Tomber"	Maître Gims , Dr. Beriz , Insolent	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	4:27
14.	"À la base"	Maître Gims	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	4:06
15.	"Pas touché"	Maître Gims , Pitbull	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	3:41
16.	"Outsider"	Maître Gims , Bedjik , Dadju (The Shin Sekai) , X-Gangs	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	5:00
17.	"Bella"	Maître Gims	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	3:47
18.	"Changer"	Maître Gims	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	3:32

Tracklist: La face cachée

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"You Lose"	Maître Gims	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	4:23
2.	"Zombie"	Maître Gims	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	4:04
3.	"De Marseille à Paris"	Maître Gims , Bedjik, Dr. Beriz, Soprano, H-Magnum	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	4:33
4.	"Close Your Eyes"	Maître Gims , JR O'Crom	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	2:39
5.	"Monstre marin"	Maître Gims	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	3:30
6.	"Warano Style"	Maître Gims	Maître Gims , Renaud Rebillaud	4:25

Charts

Chart (2012–13)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[1]	47
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[2]	1
French Albums (SNEP)^[3]	2
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[3]	11

References

^ "Ultratop.be – Maître Gims – Subliminal" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
^ "Ultratop.be – Maître Gims – Subliminal" (in French). Hung Medien.
^ ^a ^b "Lescharts.com – Maître Gims – Subliminal". Hung Medien. Cite error: The named reference "fr" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).