Albums

Reviews of hip-hop albums or mixtapes.

KNOWLEDGE THE PIRATE - Flintlock

Once again, Roc Marciano shone in 2018. Not only with his own output, or the quality of his releases, but also through homies like Knowledge the Pirate. This name is familiar; the guy has often supported Marci since […]

LEIKELI47 - Acrylic

Let's talk about manicure. The males among you might ignore it, but there are two kinds of false nails: those made of gel, and those made of acrylic. The former have various strengths: they look natural, and they are […]

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

West of the US, is the West Coast. But further west, there is Hawaii. Laura Yang is from there. Nonetheless, it is actually the Californian rap scene, she is associated with; or more exactly its underground subset the DJ […]

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 […]

CUPCAKKE - Queen Elizabitch

According to her Twitter profile, Elizabeth Harris is "going to suck 2017 dicks in 2017". No surprise then, if her first official album – or her second, depending on how they are counted – remains quite similar […]

FIGURES OF SPEECH - The Last Word

One peculiarity with the Good Life Café, is that it was headed by a woman, B. Hall, and open to feminine talents. The Project Blowed compilation shows this clearly. One of its highlights, the "Heavyweights Round […]

CAM & CHINA - Cam & China

By the end of the noughties, a dance style called jerk, or jerkin', became all the rage in the streets of Los Angeles. Soon, it would create its own musical genre, a bit like its Bay Area cousin, hyphy. Though ephemeral, […]

RADIOINACTIVE - Fo' Tractor

We already said it here, with full of conviction: all the albums Radioinactive ever released, absolutely all, are indispensable. Yes, all of them, including Fo' Tractor, the rerelease of an old cassette full of lo-fi […]

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