Fake For Real – page 8

DJ SHADOW - Endtroducing...

This is a recurring debate, though a rather quiet one, and it exists since the very day Entroducing… was released: is this crucial album of the 1990's decade as great as its reputation says? In other words, is it really […]

MCENROE - The Convenience EP

By 2002, Peanuts & Corn had produced a large collection of impeccable rap albums. Its founder, however, hadn't released anything since his Ethics EP, apart from the side-project Billy's Vision. The main guy behind […]

KANYE WEST - The Life of Pablo

Let's forget Kanye's mischiefs for a second. Let's put aside his recent words in favor of Donald Trump, or his hospital admission, and focus on the essentials: his latest work. Now is finally the right time. So, let's […]

SANDPEOPLE - Honest Racket

No Doubt: for most underground rap fans, the Wu Tang Clan of the Pacific Northwest is Oldominion. The region, however, has another talented collective. It is based in Portland and called Sandpeople, and it is every bit […]

BRAD HAMERS - The Cut-Ups of a Paper Woman

Slug, Sole, Alias, Sage Francis, Yoni Wolf... By focusing their raps on intimate and confessional lyrics, all these artsy and hypersensitive White men, plus a few others, have been pioneers in a new kind of hip-hop. The […]

THEOPHILUS LONDON - This Charming Mixtape

By the end of the naughties, rap music seems to be turning into the new pop. As a result, it escapes more and more its original milieu, and it is blurring the lines with other genres like rock, or electronica. By then, […]

BUCK 65 - Vertex

By the end of the 90's, Buck 65 was a central radio DJ, rapper and producer in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was also a White man, a Canadian, and he had grown by the countryside. As a result, he was everything but your […]

SLUMPLORDZ - Present SunnMoonSekt

Rard and Moon, a.k.a. SunnMoonSekt, had previously been part of an East Coast band called Devious Dysfonctional. Later on, they would join another, Young & Restless. And ultimately, they would become part of a […]

DALEK - Abandoned Language

With their fourth album, Dälek still complied with their formula. Once again, this record from the Newark band was made of walls of sound, tenebrous ambiances, giant bass sounds, virulent lyrics, rapped admonitions, and […]

SWAMP THING - Creature Feature

You know what to expect, considering whom Swamp Thing is made of. Those familiar with underrated rappers Timbuktu and Chokeules from Toolshed, and Savilion, shouldn't be overly surprised by the content of Creature […]

JOHN SMITH - Blunderbus (Or, in Transit)

Joe Compayre, a.k.a. John Smith, is coming from an improbable location for a rapper: Churchill, on the Hudson Bay, a city renowned for being... the "Polar Bear Capital of the World". He settled in Winnipeg in […]

NOCANDO - Jimmy the Lock

By the early 2010's, Nocando was the last heir of the Project Blowed – and beyond it, of a large part of the West Coast indie rap scene. He had been the penultimate winner of the Scribble Jam, and a founding member of […]

KAMAIYAH - A Good Night in the Ghetto

Rap is no longer the light-hearted music it used to be, a while ago. Neither its conscious side – or what is left of it – nor the materialistic and violent one, radiate with joy and happiness. Even the most hedonistic […]

JUICY J & LEX LUGER - Rubba Band Business 2

By the end of the naughties, almost two decades after the beginnings of his own Three 6 Mafia, after the apotheosis marked by his Academy Award and the success of "Stay Fly", Juicy J decided to focus on his […]

LUCKYIAM.PSC - Justify the Mean$

Justify the Mean$, is not only a record from Luckiyam. It also belongs to the man to be called Gandalf, when talking about the beatmaking side of his artistry. In addition to rapping on it, Eligh, indeed, produced the […]

LIL DURK - Signed to the Streets

At first Durk Banks, a.k.a. Lil Dirk, didn’t benefit from the craze around Chicago’s drill music. Others like Chief Keef, Lil Reese, or King Louie, captured the attention. In 2012, when this subgenre went national, the […]

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