Albums

Reviews of hip-hop albums or mixtapes.

ASIAN DOLL - Drippin' in Glo

This is an implicit law in rap music: at one step or another of its story, any major collective must have a female member. One of these crews, however – and not the least – had been an exception for quite a long time: […]

03 GREEDO - The Wolf of Grape Street

California is the land of all dreams, the motherland of mass entertainment, the ultimate fantasy factory. And as such, it often benefit from an inflated attention, especially when it comes to rap music. Quite frequently, […]

AZEALIA BANKS - 1991

By 2010, finally, pop music in the US started exploiting the sounds of electronic music. By then, similarly to the Euro-Dance genre, though twenty years later, some of its stars adapted the sounds of house or techno […]

CARDI B - Invasion of Privacy

It is now granted: Cardi B is the new queen of rap. So far, her course was flawless. Belcalis Almanzar delivered everything people long for: a bit of American Dream, as a stripper turned into a social network celebrity […]

RAPSODY - Laila’s Wisdom

The remarkable reception reserved to Laila's Wisdom, the last record from Rapsody – a rapper critics have always praised, though not at such a large extent – has one simple source: Roc Nation. In 2016, indeed, Marlanna […]

NEILA - Better Late Than Never

On the west side of the US, is the West Coast. But further west, there is Hawaii. Laura Yang, a.k.a. Neila, is from there. Nevertheless, it is actually the Californian rap scene she is associated with; or more precisely […]

JEAN GRAE & 9TH WONDER - Jeanius

With time, the messy underground hip-hop scene that created so much expectation by the end of the 90's, coalesced into something better defined. While it was originally so diverse, so creative, and so original, though it […]

LORD NARF - Witchcraft

Lord Narf deserves a place in Awful Records, among that collection of weirdos, based for most of them in Atlanta. She complies with the experimental aspirations of this iconoclastic band of rappers. Like them, she is the […]

ETERNIA - It’s Called Life

According to some, Eternia is the best female rapper in Canada. Whatever the truth is, this woman from Ottawa looks exactly as expected, from a Canadian hip-hop artist: she is white, her lyrics are on the conscious and […]

DESSA - False Hopes

False Hopes is not just one record, but many. Indeed, such were named several solo projects, released in the mid-noughties by various members of Doomtree, prior to recording a joint album with the same title. Even before […]

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