Mixtapes

Mixtape reviews

FRENCH MONTANA, JUICY J & PROJECT PAT - Cocaine Mafia

I wish I was back in 2011. I would love to live this year again, when rap albums were boring, but we didn't give a damn, since week after week, Datpiff delivered mixtapes that were worth the best of them. I wish I could […]

ICE BURGANDY - Progress Involves Risk Unfortunately

Last year, Lonnie Bands from BandGang released his strong KOD album. And there, the "Detroit To Inglewood" track underlined the many connections between the Midwest and the Californian scenes, with people like […]

MAX B - Public Domain 2: Rise Of The Silver Surfer

In 2007, Max Biggavelli was already impacted by the sordid affair which would lead, a few years later, to a 75-year prison sentence. Two years after his liberation in 2005, he was already back to jail, for having […]

HONEY COCAINE - Thug Love

Honey Cocaine was a member of Tyga's entourage. She joined his label, Last Kings, after the Californian rapper had discovered her on YouTube, and she became her protégée. Somehow, she protected him in return when, after […]

KASH DOLL - Brat Mail

The main doll, the most visible of them all, is Arkeisha Knight. Discovered through a remix of Tinashe's "2 On", and then through her take on AV's "Run Me My Money", she's been seen alongside people […]

MOLLY BRAZY - Molly World

One hip-hop scene, one female rapper. That's a rule. As far as Detroit, one of the most exciting places for rap in the last few years, is concerned, the prominent lady could very well be Kash Doll. She is the most […]

QUEEN KEY - Your Highness

Queen Key is the embodiment of rap's take on feminism. Instead of desexualizing women, she talks about lust, loudly and proudly. Her approach, though, is different from CupcaKke's, her Chicago colleague,. Ke'Asha McClure […]

RICO NASTY - Nasty

There is a new trend with today's rappers: they all want to be rock stars. Though their subject matters – sex, drug and money – remain pretty much the same, their nihilist attitudes and imageries are heavily influenced […]

OMB PEEZY & SHERWOOD MARTY - Young and Reckless

It's been a while since a buzz started around OMB Peezy. Originally from Mobile, Alabama, but settled in Sacramento since he was 12, he has collaborated since 2016 with the likes of Nef the Pharaoh and Yhung To, and he […]

STEFFLON DON - Real Ting

Stefflon Don was the woman quota in the last Freshmen. Though she has the particularity of not being American – she is a Brit who grew up in the Netherlands – this choice is not a total surprise. Stephanie Allen, indeed, […]

KATIE GOT BANDZ - Bandz And Hittaz

By 2011, just when drill music starts buzzing outside of Chicago, BlockOnDaTrack, a local beatmaker, decides it is time to offer a feminine voice to this virile sound. He convinces his cousin Kiara Johnson - a student […]

IGGY AZALEA - Ignorant Art

At first glance, this mixtape was some pure Los Angeles material. A few local rappers featured on it, like YG, Problem, and Joe Moses, and it was produced by the D.R.U.G.S. crew, later known through its association with […]

ANGEL HAZE - Reservation

The first facts to be noticed, with Angel Haze, are about her identity and her life experience. Originally from the Detroit area, Raykeea Raeen-Roes Wilson - or more simply Roes, her future stage name - is not only an […]

CARDI B - Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 2

Her name has buzzed for a few years, already. Gradually, indeed, the terrain has been carefully prepared to the next big thing in female rap, a status reserved to Belcalis Almanzar. This was confirmed in the last few […]

AMBER LONDON - 1994 EP

There's always a time, with any music, when its practitioners start getting conscious of their heritage. A time when everything needs to be defined relative to the past. In hip-hop, this phenomenon is not new, but it got […]

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