Fake For Real

In the year 2000, a period of glory for the indie rap scene in general, and more particularly for this bunch of Angelinos, the Shapeshifters had thought of everything. In addition to Know Future, a record which looked like a 2 hour posse cut declaimed by a multitude of MCs on nonsensical beats –...

If you still don't know what a cult album is, or if you are fed up with professional or wannabe music critics using these words more than is reasonable, well, maybe it is time for you to go back to the fundamental and seminal first Project Blowed compilation....

We could find anything on Peanut Butter Wolf's first LP, in fact more a compilation than a regular album. All the styles of the times had found a place, there. "Straight in your face" or more mature kinds of raps, creative beats, experiments, old school accents ("Keep On Rockin...

It starts with an almost unremarkable track, a very cold kind of rap declaimed with a deep voice from the back of the bathroom, and built on a few piano keys ("Textbook Life"). The three following songs are as cadaveric, and each time weirder and more bizarre than the previous one, more...