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LOST CHILDREN OF BABYLON - Interview

We discovered The Lost Children of Babylon about four years ago through their involvement in the Jedi Mind Tricks' Psycho Social... album. But the first full-length, they released a few months ago, revealed something […]

TES - Interview

August 2001 : Hip-Hop Section gets the opportunity to interview Tes, one of NY's underground best artists nowadays. Unfortunately, every one among us who is a fan of Tes is on summer holidays at this time. I'm finally […]

Nature doesn’t like empty spaces. The Year 2000 is finishing, Company Flow have barely announced their retirement as a group, and you already feel the urge to find somebody worthy of relaying the mythical New-Yorkers who brought about the new era of hip-hop. Hip-hop’s very own (hyper)specialists did not need much time to find the prodigal sibling. Supported by a terrifying (and terrific) contorted piano, a style broken down into movements, and a cranky voice, the track "Acts of Tragedy" (previously released on an eponymous single) allowed Tes to quickly establish himself as the new icon of underground (and complicated) hip-hop.

LA CAUTION - Asphalte Hurlante

The beginning of the year 2001 has been quite unsurprising. The same day, hip-hop’s two most anticipated albums came to our ears, and came up to all expectations, setting to reach the top ranks in our end-of-the-year playlists. In the US, The Cold Vein gathered what Vast, Vordul and El-P could do best. Here in France, within only ten tracks, Asphalte Hurlante (Screaming Asphalt) by La Caution annihilates and destroys all at once the much too self centered French rap scene.

MARS ILL - Interview

The much talented Mars Ill (ManCHILD, and Dust) are the authors of Raw Material, one of last year’s must-have hip-hop albums. That was just one good reason to ask for a short interview with them. But we little atheist French people couldn’t help asking some nasty questions about the christian content of some of their lyrics, fearing that they would not be welcome. However, ManCHILD, the emcee, accepted to answer them and we must admit he did it quite well.

BIGG JUS - Interview

An interview of Company Flow with us was planned two years ago, when they came and visited us for a show in Southern France. But finally, Montpellier was too far from Paris and we missed them. At this time, Bigg Jus had already left hip hop’s new wave leaders and started working on other projects. Today we see this interview of him as a kind of revenge, even if we deliberately decided not to question him too much about his former crew. The time has come now for Subverse and the rapper’s solo album, and this new story seems as promising as the previous one was.

ODDJOBS - Interview

The Midwest is not the first place people look at when they want to discover fresh hip hop. But things started to change a few years ago with Atmosphere key Overcast! release. Coming from Minnesota as well, Oddjobs is a band of two MC’s (Advizer, Crescent Moon) and two DJ’s (Anatomy, Deeltax) from the Cases of Mistaken Identity crew that recently released a very convincing Absorbing Playtime EP. We whished to know more about them and all of them aggred to answer separately to this interview.

BRAILLE - Lifefirst: Half The Battle

The existence of a Christian oriented hip-hop branch being now granted, it was only a matter of time before someone really talented emerge from it. Such a guy, actually, does exist. He comes from Portland, Oregon, his […]

KUNGA 219 - Interview

Apparently Halifax, Nova Scotia, is quite a rich scene with plenty of hip hop artists of a new kind. Revealed after Buck 65 and Sixtoo - both of them affiliated to Anticon - here is Kunga 219, author of the brilliant […]

MICROFT HOLMES - Interview

Just listen to the A Jeep Jack Affair compilation and you'll realise that Microft Holmes is one of the best emcees nowadays. Hip Hop Section has tried to catch him before he becomes the next hype. We prepared a few questions and asked the Genevan Heathen (their French speaking contact), to do an interview with him. He did it brilliantly, and interviewed The Beyonder (producer, among others, of 7L & Esoteric's classic "Be Alert") and Plusone (an unknown) in quite a crazy atmosphere. Too much alcohol.

AESOP ROCK - Float

His name may not have made its way yet, out of the underground, but Aesop Rock's career is definitely on an ascending path. Three years after Music for Earthworms, and less than one year after a short but intense […]

MASTERMINDS - Interview

After some singles and one great EP (Live from Area 51), The Masterminds have finally released one of the good albums of the Summer 2000, The Underground Railroad. A bit curious about this group (Kimani, Epod et Oracle), its album and their impressive guests list (Mr. Khaliyl, L-Fudge, Mr. Lif, J-Treds, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Mr. Complex, J-Live, El-P), we tried to know more about them. We've been lucky : Kimani and Epod accepted very quickly to answer our questions.

BUCK 65 - Interview

Judging by his strange, slow rap, his foggy beats splitted in different parts and his true poetic skills, it was logical that Buck 65 became affiliated to Anticon. He is one of the few, though, along with his fellow […]

NECRO - I Need Drugs

A beatmaker for Non-Phixion, Cage, Missing Linx and a few others, and also an MC, the boss of the Psycho+Logical label, and a video maker, Necro is a major character in New-York's underground rap scene. He is its […]

LOUIS LOGIC - Interview

A few weeks after the release of its successful Loud Mouth single, and just when his album Music to Drink by is released, Louis Logic tells us about his career, his vision of hip-hop, the next Jedi Mind Tricks album and many others things. Meeting with a nice rapper.

J-ZONE - Interview

One year after his first EP Music for tu Madre praised by hip hop's most careful reviewers, New York's J-Zone is releasing a second one, A Bottle of Whup Ass, a EP full of ideas and imagination and this summer's best records. Let's meet a rapper who takes life on the right side.