Socrate Petnga (born 23 April 1979), better known as Mac Tyer (/ˈtər/), is a French rapper of Cameroonian descent, from Aubervilliers, Île-de-France. He is also known as Monsieur Socrate or mononym Socrate.

He was also member of Perestroika, a hip hop trio made up of Mac Tyer, Mac Kregor (real name Makenzy Guerrier), also from Aubervilliers, France but of Haitian descent and Dontcha. The band was formed in 1999, and active initially for one year, with very rare appearances later on.

With Dontcha opting to continue on a solo career, Mac Tyer and Mac Kregor turned it into a rap duo renaming it Tandem in 2000. Tandem remained active until 2014, although its members also released solo albums of their own. Tandem was signed at various times to Because Music, Première Classe and Hostile Records.

Discography

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Albums

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as part of duo Tandem
  • 2005: C'est toujours pour ceux qui savent
Solo
Year Album Peak positions
FR
[1]
BEL
(Wa)

[2]
2006 Le général
(credited to Socrate AKA Mac Tyer)
28
2008 D'où je viens 28
2010 Hat-Trick 28
2012 Untouchable 66
2013 Banger #1 66
2014 Banger II 54
2015 Je suis une légende 6 76
2017 Banger 3 12
[3]
2018 C'est la street mon pote 55
2020 Noir 33
2021 Noir. II 133
Noir. III 57

Mixtapes / EPs

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as part of duo Tandem
  • 2001: Ceux qui savent m'ecoutent (EP)
  • 2004: Tandematique Modéle Vol. 1 (Mixtape)
  • 2005: La Trilogie (Maxi)
Solo
  • 2005: Patrimoine du ghetto (produced by Jo Le Balafré)

Singles

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Solo
Year Single Peak positions Album
FR
[1]
2014 "Laisse-moi te dire"
(feat. Maître Gims)
37
2015 "Un jour peut-être" 92 Je suis une légende
"Je suis une légende" 190
"Fantômes"
(Mac Tyer / Blacko)
153
2020 "Moto"
(feat. Ninho)
7 Noir
Featured in
Year Single Peak positions Album
FR
[1]
2013 "On s'en bat les couilles 2013"
(La Fouine feat. Mac Tyer)
183 La Fouine album
Drôle de parcours
2017 "Comme à l'ancienne"
(Rémy feat. Mac Tyer)
176 Rémy album
C'est Rémy
2018 "Woah"
(Sofiane feat. Vald, Mac Tyer, Soolking, Kalash Criminel, Sadek & Heuss L'Enfoiré)
5 93 Empire
(by Various Artists)
2019 "Briganté"
(Kaaris feat. Mac Tyer & Sofiane)
33 Kaaris album
Or Noir Part 3

Other releases and charted songs

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Solo
Year Single Peak positions Album
FR
[1]
2018 "Il se passe quoi"
(feat. Kaaris & Sofiane)
107 C'est la street mon pote
2021 "Grammy"
(feat. Freeze Corleone)
84 Noir 3

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Mac Tyer discography". lescharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Mac Tyer discography". ultratop.be/fr/. Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Le Top de la semaine : Top Albums – SNEP (Week 17, 2017)" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved 3 May 2017.[permanent dead link]