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KA - A Martyr's Reward

Looking at the year-end album lists in 2021, judging by the strong presence of people such as the Griselda crew, their pal Mach-Hommy, MIKE, Wiki, Moor Mother, Armand Hammer, and a few others, it looks like the center of […]

FRENCH MONTANA, JUICY J & PROJECT PAT - Cocaine Mafia

I wish I was back in 2011. I would love to live this year again, when rap albums were boring, but we didn't give a damn, since week after week, Datpiff delivered mixtapes that were worth the best of them. I wish I could […]

BENNY THE BUTCHER - The Plugs I Met 2

Here we are. After his rise over the previous decade - and the decisive support of Jay-Z's Roc Nation – the fruit is ripe for Benny the Butcher, as for the Griselda crew more generally. He is put into orbit. He is […]

BROCKHAMPTON - Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine

A rap album with an outstandingly large musical spectrum, proposing in one go a few boom bap beats and g-funk sirens, but also a bit of pop, rock, classy soul, old R&B sang with a falsetto, and a pinch of gospel and […]

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 […]

ICE BURGANDY - Progress Involves Risk Unfortunately

Last year, Lonnie Bands from BandGang released his strong KOD album. And there, the "Detroit To Inglewood" track underlined the many connections between the Midwest and the Californian scenes, with people like […]

MAX B - Public Domain 2: Rise Of The Silver Surfer

In 2007, Max Biggavelli was already impacted by the sordid affair which would lead, a few years later, to a 75-year prison sentence. Two years after his liberation in 2005, he was already back to jail, for having […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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