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 […]
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 […]
100 of the best female rap albums ever It's never been easy for a woman to find her way into the rap game. First, she had to fight hard to become an equal to the frequently sexist male rappers. And then, she had to deal with her rivals; the audience, or the […]
100 of the best rap mixtapes ever To complement its new book published in 2017, Mixtapes, Fake For Real talks about its favorite mixtapes. Focusing exclusively on US and Canadian hip-hop, and on projects released from 2000 through 2015 - an era when we […]
INDIE HIP-HOP - 150 albums A few years after we published it, and to celebrate the release in 2014 of our new book dedicated to the history of indie hip-hop, it was time to deliver an updated version of the selection we published first in 2009, […]
