Fake For Real – page 5

RICO NASTY - Nasty

There is a new trend with today's rappers: they all want to be rock stars. Though their subject matters – sex, drug and money – remain pretty much the same, their nihilist attitudes and imageries are heavily influenced […]

OMB PEEZY & SHERWOOD MARTY - Young and Reckless

It's been a while since a buzz started around OMB Peezy. Originally from Mobile, Alabama, but settled in Sacramento since he was 12, he has collaborated since 2016 with the likes of Nef the Pharaoh and Yhung To, and he […]

STEFFLON DON - Real Ting

Stefflon Don was the woman quota in the last Freshmen. Though she has the particularity of not being American – she is a Brit who grew up in the Netherlands – this choice is not a total surprise. Stephanie Allen, indeed, […]

100 of the best rap mixtapes ever

To complement its new book published in 2017, Mixtapes, Fake For Real talks about its favorite mixtapes. Focusing exclusively on US and Canadian hip-hop, and on projects released from 2000 through 2015 - an era when we […]

KATIE GOT BANDZ - Bandz And Hittaz

By 2011, just when drill music starts buzzing outside of Chicago, BlockOnDaTrack, a local beatmaker, decides it is time to offer a feminine voice to this virile sound. He convinces his cousin Kiara Johnson - a student […]

IGGY AZALEA - Ignorant Art

At first glance, this mixtape was some pure Los Angeles material. A few local rappers featured on it, like YG, Problem, and Joe Moses, and it was produced by the D.R.U.G.S. crew, later known through its association with […]

ANGEL HAZE - Reservation

The first facts to be noticed, with Angel Haze, are about her identity and her life experience. Originally from the Detroit area, Raykeea Raeen-Roes Wilson - or more simply Roes, her future stage name - is not only an […]

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 […]

SYLVAIN BERTOT - Mixtapes

The history of rap cannot be told, without a strong focus on mixtapes. Originally compilations of existing songs, recorded and mixed by DJs on audiocassettes, they became over time real albums, distributed on the […]

CARDI B - Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 2

Her name has buzzed for a few years, already. Gradually, indeed, the terrain has been carefully prepared to the next big thing in female rap, a status reserved to Belcalis Almanzar. This was confirmed in the last few […]

AMBER LONDON - 1994 EP

There's always a time, with any music, when its practitioners start getting conscious of their heritage. A time when everything needs to be defined relative to the past. In hip-hop, this phenomenon is not new, but it got […]

JUNGLEPUSSY - Satisfaction Guaranteed

Based in Brooklyn, Junglepussy is a typical product of the hip, bohemian and progressive environment of New-York. Her background shows this. Before starting rapping, Shayna McHayle was attracted by fashion - beyond the […]

JEAN DEAUX - Soular System Vol. I: Dark Matter[s]

Female rappers seem to be numerous in Chicago, by the middle of the 2010's. Several among them became big names, on the drill music scene. And there are others, representing the other side of the city, its wiser, […]

DREEZY - Schizo

Originated from South Side Chicago, Dreezy had her start in drill music. She connected first to a star of the subgenre, Sasha Go Hard, who invited her on her "I Ain't No Hitta" song in 2012, and she […]

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 […]

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