JVLIVS: The Black Novel of SCH

Hands on a typewriter, his gaze burning with melancholy. Julius - or SCH - is there, ready to close the book of his adventures. Six years of a criminal saga, three albums, a character who has grown up before our eyes like an urban legend from Marseille.

What if rap had become our new crime novel?

*JVLIVS III: Ad Finem*. The end. Literally. This December 6, SCH will close the story of a parallel life, of an alter ego built millimeter by millimeter, with the precision of a filmmaker more than a rapper.

With this third opus, SCH promises to lift the veil on the darkest Julius ever shown, the one who ended up fading away in the brutality of his destiny. The video for “Stigmates”, the first single, gives a chilling taste of it. A mini-film noir where Julius, overwhelmed but determined, scribbles frantically on the typewriter: “I could write a book, I’m 30 years old.” In a few words, SCH announces that he’s going to see this story through to the end. Because he carried this album around like an obsession, refining every detail, from the murderous prose to the images that strike the imagination. Julius, SCH’s shadow, seems very close to his twilight.

2018: First act. JVLIVS is born. A melancholic mobster arrives, his stomach full of rage.
2021: Second chapter. Julius travels. Spain, borders, invisible territories.
2024: Final part. The denouement. The typewriter becomes a coffin.
Between Marseille and fiction: the influence of a setting

What makes this trilogy unique is also the almost cinematic dimension it exudes. SCH has often said it: his love for gangster cinema and the city of Marseille are mixed in JVLIVS like obvious facts. If you were born there, if you grew up with these stories of dark alleys and local legends, it's impossible to miss it. He says it himself, "if I had been born somewhere else, I might not have proposed this." But he is from Marseille, and this heritage shines through in every song, every beat. In fact, when you listen to JVLIVS, you don't just listen to the music; you travel into a universe where every note reminds you that fiction and reality are dangerously close here.

Reality Catching Up With Fiction

And sometimes, this proximity hurts. Like last August, when the SCH team was caught under bullets near a nightclub in La Grande-Motte. An event that could have stopped everything. But after a brief break, SCH returns. Not to explain, but to remind: his music is his outlet. The fans, for their part, are waiting – not so much for explanations as for that cathartic touch that SCH knows how to offer them. And in this last chapter of JVLIVS, the impact of these dramas undoubtedly resonates, more powerful than ever.

So what does December 6th have in store for us? Is it really the end of the story? For now, all we know is that this album will conclude what he started six years ago. SCH has always kept us on the edge of our seats, skillfully playing between his role as narrator and actor in Julius' saga. With "Ad Finem", he promises to fire his last shot, to leave us facing the denouement of what he himself calls "the universe" that he has carried within him for more than two and a half years. One thing is certain: this album will be more than just a culmination; it will be the indelible mark of an artist who has transformed rap into a painting.

On December 6th, we won't just be releasing an album. We'll be closing a book.