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CHIEF KEEF - Almighty So 2

This album by Chief Keef is a big deal. Bigger than Dirty Nachos, the playful mixtape he released with Mike WiLL. Almighty So 2 indeed, has been anticipated since 2018 and is a long, well-produced work with guests […]

12 of the best rap albums of 2023

In 2023, people celebrated the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Here and there, all over the year, specialized as well as generalist medias commemorated that day, in August 1973, when DJ Kool Herc started to showcase his […]

KODAK BLACK - When I Was Dead

It's been ten years now since Kodak Black first entered into our lives. Ten years over which he had ups and downs, artistically as well as personally speaking. Ten years during which, each time we thought we were done […]

RXK NEPHEW - 'Til I'm Dead

Rap and electronic music have a long history in common, and it is a complex one. It is both conflictual and incestuous, and it had many episodes. The very last one, though, is special. It is something quite different. […]

YOUNG NUDY - Gumbo

One is profane, while the other, unashamedly, can pretend to be sacred. But there is little difference between gastronomy and music. Both are the domain of talented people, either self-taught or not, who appropriate more […]

DIGGA D - Back To Square One

Back To Square One. Such is titled Digga D's fourth album, a release he presents as a mixtape. It is misleading, though, as it doesn't actually go back to basics. Quite the opposite. The boy who, at seventeen and beyond, […]

VALEE & HARRY FRAUD - Virtuoso

These two are almost veterans. Harry Fraud and Valee, indeed, have been two promising people over the 2010's. By the beginning of the decade, the former became a trendy producer after he collaborated with French Montana. […]

SLOWTHAI - UGLY

Let's be clear: Slowthai was always a punk rocker. A punk rocker dressed in today's clothes, i.e. like a rapper. But a punk rocker nonetheless, with the related disrespect, irony, aggressiveness, and caustic words; with […]

YOUNG THUG - Business Is Business

It is systematic. It is always too late, that a true masterwork is recognized as such. And Young Thug's is no exception. His creativity was at its best from 2013 to 2015, and though, it is after, in the era succeeding to […]

THAT MEXICAN OT - Lonestar Luchador

We should never forget that, originally, hip-hop was also a Latino art. The ghettos where it was born, in New-York, were not only inhabited by African Americans, they also had Spanish speakers. And overtime, many rappers […]

TRAPLAND PAT - Professor Trap

"Big Business", Trapland Pat's signature song, is a minimalistic gem, a song so stripped and simple, that we still wonder why it is so pleasant. Naturally, whenever a rapper finds a great recipe, he leverages […]

SEXYY RED - Hood Hottest Princess

This is the recurring problem with affirmative action. Its intent is good, but at times, it achieves the complete opposite. While it is supposed to encourage inclusion, it creates suspicion. One of the examples if the […]

SAMEER AHMAD - Tracy 168

Sahmeer Ahmad follows his route. Since the critical success of his Perdants magnifiques (magnificent losers) album in 2014, he's built quite a remarkable set of works. The last iteration of this is a short five-track EP […]

BIGXTHAPLUG - AMAR

BigXthaPlug's journey in rap music is far from unusual. Originally, he expected a career in football, until his university - who didn't appreciate to find him smoking marijuana - decided to expel him. What followed was a […]

12 of the best rap albums of 2022

In times when rap music is so prolific and fragmented that it gets challenging to keep track, we will not pretend to be exhaustive. It never was possible to like the whole thing, and it is unrealistic to know everything […]

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