MIKE WILL MADE IT - #MikeWiLLBeenTrill MikeWiLLBeenTrill was obviously not Mike Will's first mixtape. Just before, he had released all three volumes of his Est. in 1989 series. In 2013, though, the Atlanta producer was at the apex of his fame. Now, he was […]
OF MEXICAN DESCENT - Exitos y Mas Exitos By this time, Alejandro Ocana, a.k.a. 2Mex, had not joined Key Kool and Rhettmatic's Visionaries yet. And Daniel Rodriguez, a.k.a. Xololanxinxo, wasn't a member of Toca. Both Chicano rappers, actually, were part of Of […]
KODAK BLACK - Heart of the Projects Projects are, in the US, the equivalent to the French "HLM". They are large real estate schemes, launched by the public authorities, and aimed at the poorest. And quite often, they end up being no-go areas, […]
JOE BUDDEN - Mood Muzik 2: Can It Get Any Worse? History might recall Joe Budden as the ultimate mixtape rapper. It is through that channel, indeed, that this native of New-York, now settled in New Jersey, got noticed. In the 90's, like others, he got publicized […]
CESCHI - Broken Bone Ballads It took time, before Ceschi was able to propose Broken Bone Ballads, his latest album, he recorded with the help of Factor - now Factor Chandelier - another key and tireless activist from the post-indie rap scene. Five […]
LIL WAYNE - Da Drought 3 And if, in his heyday, by the middle of the noughties, exactly when he pretended to be "the best rapper alive", Lil Wayne's opus magnum had been none of his official albums, Tha Carter II or Tha Carter III, but […]
