Albums

Reviews of hip-hop albums or mixtapes.

HUS KINGPIN - Portishus

Portishead was never a rap group. Beth Gibbons did nothing other than sing. Yet, in a certain sense, it was a great hip-hop band. Geoff Barrow's dark beats, gloomy atmospheres, and melancholic vision strongly paralleled […]

CASEY - Tragédie d'une trajectoire

The year 2006 is key to Casey. The rapper originally from Rouen has been in for a decade. She built her own place in the French rap universe, through collaborations, and her various contributions to mixtapes or […]

DUKE DEUCE - Duke Nukem

Duke Deuce could have disappeared. His crunk revival was somehow short-lived and largely limited to himself; it could have faded away with him. But Quality Control wasn’t going to let him go so easily. So, in early 2021, […]

DEVIN THE DUDE - Soulful Distance

What can Devin Copeland do, while locked-down during the COVID era? Well, smoke marijuana, of course. Relax and chill with his close ones, obviously. And record music. So pretty much the same as usual, more or less. […]

FREDO - Money Can't Buy Happiness

Some time ago, on the forum of this very blog, one of the regulars compared Dave to Abd al Malik, a quite embarrassing French rapper. Ouch, that hurts… However, it is not entirely unfounded. Both rappers, indeed, share […]

GANGSTA BOO & LA CHAT - Witch

According to a tacit rule, it is impossible for two female rappers to coexist. Because of this, some had opposed La Chat to Gangsta Boo. None of them, however, has ever stepped on the other's toes. While the latter was a […]

SAMEER AHMAD - Apaches

Since his album Perdants Magnifiques, in 2014, Sameer Ahmad is praised by French critics, even though his career started much before this. He is less known than other rappers, but contrary to many of them, he rarely […]

EEKWOL & MILS - The List

In 2004, when she released Apprentice to the Mystery, Lindsay Knight, a.k.a. Eekwol, was primarily presented as a rapper from the First Nations. She is, indeed, a member of the Cree community, later on she would be a […]

POLO G - Die a Legend

Polo G, as we know him, was born in a prison. Before he was incarcerated, Taurus Bartlett, like other Chicago rookies, used to deliver some generic kind of drill music. But in 2018, behind bars, he decided to change his […]

AZJAH - Princess Diaries

The contemporary rap scene in Los Angeles is not specifically known for its feminine faces. Recently, though, someone occupied this niche: a rapper called Azjah pretended that she was the "Princess of Compton". […]

KENY ARKANA - Entre ciment et belle étoile

This is one of the great specialties of French rap. For quite a long time, it was understood that its main role was to carry out a message. Cultural elitism is nastily anchored in our nation, as well as a strong […]

BILLY WOODS & KENNY SEGAL - Hiding Places

We didn't really notice that last year, when listening to Armand Hammer's third album, Paraffin, but Kenny Segal contributed to two tracks in there. If we had paid even more attention, we would have noted that this old […]

LIL DEBBIE - Debbie

The White Girl Mob didn't last long. This band of female rappers quickly split. And its two famous members, its figurehead Kreayshawn, and V-Nasty, once a collaborator of Gucci Mane, are now AWOL. Today, the only one […]

KATE TEMPEST - Let Them Eat Chaos

Kate Tempest represents another tradition in UK's rap scene. The one, as a matter of fact, which is not really about rap. The one from other Brits connected to hip-hop, like The Streets, but also from people unrelated to […]

CASEY - Libérez la bête

According to herself, Casey doesn't practice French rap, but immigrant rap. As a matter of fact, she delivers her music as most rap haters see it: as the culture of young, colored, and threatening foreigners. Through her […]

NADIA ROSE - Highly Flammable

Grime is a family affair. Nadia Rose, indeed, is a cousin of Stormzy. She grew up close to him, in Croydon, South London. Moreover, she is the daughter of a dancehall DJ and MC. Naturally, considering such a background, […]

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