Fake For Real – page 9

SAUCE TWINZ - In Sauce We Trust

The Houston rap scene is one of the most established in the US, no question. Since the 80's, it delivered a wide bunch of great rappers, and over time it developed its own identity. In the 2010's, this long journey […]

CUNNINLYNGUISTS - Strange Journey Volume One

The CunninLynguists have been, in many ways, an exception. The duo – later on, a trio - had represented more or less the backpack rap tradition in a place, the Dirty South, where it scarcely existed. Also, in an […]

MCENROE - Disenfranchised

So many years later, we still wonder where mcenroe found the time. Since his first recordings by 1994, the rapper and beatmaker had never been out of work. In addition to his own releases, or those of his group Park-Like […]

QWEL & MAKER - Beautiful Raw

So, they hadn't said it all. Responsible for some of the best indie rap releases in the mid 2000's - especially the brilliant The Harvest - the duo had made it again, ten years after. In 2013, Qwel, a member of the […]

THIRSTIN HOWL III - Skilligan's Island

Originally a gang of Puerto Rican hustlers, the Lo-Life Founders never tried to record any masterpiece. Despite their excellence on the mic, rap has always been some hobby to them, more than something they really […]

OPEN MIKE EAGLE - Unapologetic Art Rap

Unapologetic Art Rap; such is the name of Open Mike Eagle's 2010 album. In a year marked by the triumph of Waka Flocka's brutal and visceral rap, he released something opposite: a manifesto for the most sophisticated and […]

ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM - Shopping Carts Crashing

Less than one year after their classic Tragic Epilogue, New York's trio Antipop Consortium would release an album aimed at the Japanese market, on an obscure label from there. If they had been a normal band, this would […]

KID CUDI - A Kid Named Cudi

In the 2010's, rap's biggest mainstream star is Drake, undoubtedly. He understood how rap was had changed from a musical genre, into the very center of international pop. He abolished the borders with other genres, using […]

MIKE WILL MADE IT - #MikeWiLLBeenTrill

MikeWiLLBeenTrill was obviously not Mike Will's first mixtape. Just before, he had released all three volumes of his Est. in 1989 series. In 2013, though, the Atlanta producer was at the apex of his fame. Now, he was […]

OF MEXICAN DESCENT - Exitos y Mas Exitos

By this time, Alejandro Ocana, a.k.a. 2Mex, had not joined Key Kool and Rhettmatic's Visionaries yet. And Daniel Rodriguez, a.k.a. Xololanxinxo, wasn't a member of Toca. Both Chicano rappers, actually, were part of Of […]

KODAK BLACK - Heart Of The Projects

Projects are, in the US, the equivalent to the French "HLM". They are large real estate schemes, launched by the public authorities, and aimed at the poorest. And quite often, they end up being no-go areas, […]

JOE BUDDEN - Mood Muzik 2: Can It Get Any Worse?

History might recall Joe Budden as the ultimate mixtape rapper. It is through that channel, indeed, that this native of New-York, now settled in New Jersey, got noticed. In the 90's, like others, he got publicized […]

CESCHI - Broken Bone Ballads

It took time, before Ceschi was able to propose Broken Bone Ballads, his latest album, he recorded with the help of Factor - now Factor Chandelier - another key and tireless activist from the post-indie rap scene. Five […]

LIL WAYNE - Da Drought 3

And if, in his heyday, by the middle of the noughties, exactly when he pretended to be "the best rapper alive", Lil Wayne's opus magnum had been none of his official albums, Tha Carter II or Tha Carter III, but […]

OCTAVIUS & 4AM - Electric Third Rail

According to the presentation of their 2000 joint album, Electric Third Rail, San Francisco's beatmakers Octavius (William Marshall) and 4AM (Jason Chavez) tried to translate in music the overall sounds, rhythm and […]

INOE ONER - Governments Greatest Hits

Later on, Thavius Beck, a.k.a. Adlib, would become a bit more famous. A previous member of the great Californian collective Global Phlowtations, the beatmaker would finally become a bit more visible, beyond the West Coast Underground hip-hop scene, thanks to his presence on Mush Records, and his collaboration with Subtitle as part of the Labwaste duo. Some of his best works, however, had been released much before this era, for example the albums he had produced by the late 90's / early 00's for Inoe One, also called Inoe Oner; among them, Master Realm, Millenium Conductor and, above all, the great Governments Greatest Hits.

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