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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 […]
Published on Tuesday 21 June 2016 at 22:45 in Mixtapes

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 […]
Published on Tuesday 14 June 2016 at 23:03 in Mixtapes

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 […]
Published on Monday 30 May 2016 at 22:53 in Albums

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 […]
Published on Tuesday 17 May 2016 at 22:52 in Albums

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 […]
Published on Monday 2 May 2016 at 23:00 in Albums

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 […]
Published on Wednesday 20 April 2016 at 22:47 in Albums

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 […]
Published on Sunday 3 April 2016 at 22:58 in Albums

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 […]
Published on Friday 1 April 2016 at 23:10 in Mixtapes

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 […]
Published on Wednesday 30 March 2016 at 23:32 in Mixtapes

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 […]
Published on Monday 21 March 2016 at 22:43 in Albums

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, […]
Published on Thursday 17 March 2016 at 23:16 in Mixtapes

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 […]
Published on Tuesday 15 March 2016 at 22:54 in Mixtapes

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 […]
Published on Monday 7 March 2016 at 06:23 in Albums
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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 […]
Published on Wednesday 2 March 2016 at 23:18 in Mixtapes

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 […]
Published on Monday 22 February 2016 at 22:58 in Albums

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.

Published on Thursday 11 February 2016 at 23:34 in Albums
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