Mixtapes

Mixtape reviews

MAX B & FRENCH MONTANA - Coke Wave

The enemies of my enemies are my friends. This universal law united Max B and French Montana. By the end of the noughties, both are angry with Jim Jones. After being the driving force of his ByrdGang collective, the […]

CHIEF KEEF - Two Zero One Seven

Things are going fast, in rap music. Chief Keef's fate is a proof of this. Five years earlier, in 2012, he was on the verge of becoming the master of the world. The big thing, by then, was Chicago's drill music, and the […]

TRAVIS PORTER - Who Is Travis Porter?

For a few years, Rae Sremmurd has triumphed around the world with their playful and juvenile take on trap music. The duo, though, is not the first going that way. Another band did it before. And like them, they were […]

JIMMY WOPO - Woponese

As the year 2016 is coming to an end, let's review its new faces, and decide who really deserves our attention. Among those is Travon Smart, a.k.a. Jimmy Wopo, a young man from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who surfaced with […]

THEOPHILUS LONDON - This Charming Mixtape

By the end of the naughties, rap music seems to be turning into the new pop. As a result, it escapes more and more its original milieu, and it is blurring the lines with other genres like rock, or electronica. By then, […]

KAMAIYAH - A Good Night in the Ghetto

Rap is no longer the light-hearted music it used to be, a while ago. Neither its conscious side – or what is left of it – nor the materialistic and violent one, radiate with joy and happiness. Even the most hedonistic […]

JUICY J & LEX LUGER - Rubba Band Business 2

By the end of the naughties, almost two decades after the beginnings of his own Three 6 Mafia, after the apotheosis marked by his Academy Award and the success of "Stay Fly", Juicy J decided to focus on his […]

LIL DURK - Signed to the Streets

At first Durk Banks, a.k.a. Lil Dirk, didn’t benefit from the craze around Chicago’s drill music. Others like Chief Keef, Lil Reese, or King Louie, captured the attention. In 2012, when this subgenre went national, the […]

SAUCE TWINZ - In Sauce We Trust

The Houston rap scene is one of the most established in the US, no question. Since the 80's, it delivered a wide bunch of great rappers, and over time it developed its own identity. In the 2010's, this long journey […]

CUNNINLYNGUISTS - Strange Journey Volume One

The CunninLynguists have been, in many ways, an exception. The duo – later on, a trio - had represented more or less the backpack rap tradition in a place, the Dirty South, where it scarcely existed. Also, in an […]

KID CUDI - A Kid Named Cudi

In the 2010's, rap's biggest mainstream star is Drake, undoubtedly. He understood how rap was had changed from a musical genre, into the very center of international pop. He abolished the borders with other genres, using […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

MAX B - Public Domain 6: Walking The Plank

By 1997, at the age of 19, Charly Wingate was sent to prison on thievery charges. He stayed there until 2005, and then he returned to jail as soon as in 2009, supposedly for having ordered a murder. The case was somehow […]

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