Fake For Real – page 7

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, […]

NONAME - Telefone

The wait was long, before Fatimah Warner's first project, Telefone, was disclosed. Released in 2016 only, it was first announced three years earlier, when Noname Gypsy – now just Noname – made a name for herself with her […]

CUPCAKKE - Cum Cake

For decades, sex was a central theme in rap music. Often described in very raw and explicit ways, it is one of the key reasons why some people hate hip-hop. Because of this, they consider it too vulgar, or sexist, not […]

MOUSE ON THA TRACK & LIL CALI - Just Because

Mouse On Tha Track is mostly known as Lil Boosie's producer. He authored mixtapes of his own, like Swagga Fresh Freddie and Millionaire Dreamzzz, solo projects he released while his partner was in jail. But he also […]

KODIE SHANE - Big Trouble Little Jupiter

This is a well-established rule: any rap crew needs to have one feminine member. Such is the case with the Sailing Team, the collective led by Lil Yachty, who recently became an icon of Atlanta's new generation. Among […]

MAX B & FRENCH MONTANA - Coke Wave

The enemies of my enemies are my friends. This universal law united Max B and French Montana. By the end of the noughties, both are angry with Jim Jones. After being the driving force of his ByrdGang collective, the […]

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 […]

SAGE FRANCIS - A Healthy Distrust

The previous album of Sage Francis, Personal Journals, had won over an audience external to hip-hop. And this was not surprising, considering that the rapper's label was Anticon, and that he was leaning toward rock […]

ADLIB - International Beats

One of the original members of Global Phlowtations – a Californian collective from the Project Blowed family, with legendary people like Orko Eloheim and Sach, also from The Nonce – Thavius Beck is mostly known for his […]

CHIEF KEEF - Two Zero One Seven

Things are going fast, in rap music. Chief Keef's fate is a proof of this. Five years earlier, in 2012, he was on the verge of becoming the master of the world. The big thing, by then, was Chicago's drill music, and the […]

PRINCESS NOKIA - 1992

The only good music is the one that resembles its creator. And 1992, as a matter of fact, resembles New-York. Not only because its title refers to the 1990's decade, when NYC hip-hop was as its best – 1992 is, actually, […]

JEDI MIND TRICKS - The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological, and Electro-Magnetic Manipulation of Human Consciousness

Though 1996 is generally considered as the start of the indie rap era, 1997 is the year of its classics. The first Jedi Mind Tricks album, The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological, and Electro-Magnetic Manipulation of […]

TRAVIS PORTER - Who Is Travis Porter?

For a few years, Rae Sremmurd has triumphed around the world with their playful and juvenile take on trap music. The duo, though, is not the first going that way. Another band did it before. And like them, they were […]

BLACKALICIOUS - Nia

Though he was more visible than others, DJ Shadow has never been a lone wolf. Even before his fame and the monumental Endtroducing… album, he was a part of Solesides, a label from the Bay Area, the very place which, […]

JIMMY WOPO - Woponese

As the year 2016 is coming to an end, let's review its new faces, and decide who really deserves our attention. Among those is Travon Smart, a.k.a. Jimmy Wopo, a young man from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who surfaced with […]

CANNIBAL OX - The Cold Vein

The Cold Vein was the first important album released by Def Jux, and the first El-P, the label's founder, had entirely produced since Company Flow broke up. In addition, it had been heralded by two striking singles, […]

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