This study aims at considering rap music as a speech about exclusion and also an exploration of ways to emancipate through art. Rap music, a recent genre which appeared during the seventies in the US, seems to be inseparable to social questions and to political protest movements expressed by discriminated minorities. When the genre emerged in Europe, especially in France, Rap music was perceived either as the expression of the social unease of the underprivileged suburban youth or as a new poetical laboratory. As part of my research study, I focus on two rap bands, from 1997 to 2017, which are called La Rumeur and Anfalsh. These two bands describe themselves as hardcore and underground. They performed a socially-aware poetry speaking about social inequalities in a postcolonial society. Although many researchers advocate for tackling rap music and suburbs as two distinct research objects, suburban issues were at the heart of the creative process of the two rap bands I will focus on. But, why is the suburban way of life so important to French rap? Are suburban visions in their albums reality or fantasy? A social and political SOS at the risk of confirming some clichés or a poetical and personal cry? And finally, is it possible that poetry springs from such forsaken territory to offer new cultural possibilities?