La Haine - DJ scene

The scene where the DJ blasts an anti-police message over the projects is shot differently than most other scenes in the film. The audience are positioned in a way which enables us to see the projects in a way that even residents cannot. The huge scale of the projects is projected, and we can draw comparisons between the projects and a maze, somewhere people have difficulty leaving and finding their way around. The camera moves freely, weaving through the large buildings in the projects. The vast size and feeling of entrapment and cramped spaces is juxtaposed with the ability to see just how view people are outside in the projects. The isolation the residents feel is almost strange considering the size of the projects. The fact that the camera moves so freely with the music could suggest that the likes of music and the arts are the only forms of escapism in this area, which is difficult to escape.

The final ariel shot is of the projects with Paris' epicentre in the background. This positions the audience as if they were trapped, like prisoners, within the projects, looking out on Paris, a place that is likely to be unreachable for several of the projects' residents. This is reinforced by the fact that the DJ's music is essentially forced upon the residents; this is the only way his music will be heard. If he has dreams of becoming a DJ and people voluntarily listening to his music, he will have to leave the projects; an unlikely occurrence. Therefore, his aims and dreams are quite possibly unattainable.

The DJ wears a Cyprus Hills t-shirt, whilst playing the music of KRS1, as US rapper, with the intro of the song by the Beastie Boys. These are all subtle examples of how the residents of the projects have rejected French culture the way French culture rejected them, and have adopted a surrogate US culture.
The hugely famous song by Edith Piaf that is incorporated in the DJ's music could be there in order to mock French culture, or in an attempt for the DJ (and those like him) to create their own culture by integrating French and US culture.