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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
MAX B - Public Domain 6: Walking The Plank By 1997, at the age of 19, Charly Wingate was sent to prison on thievery charges. He stayed there until 2005, and then he returned to jail as soon as in 2009, supposedly for having ordered a murder. The case was somehow […]
NICKI MINAJ - Beam Me Up Scotty Like it or not, but you have to admit the following: in the 2010s, Nicki Minaj is the number one female rapper. The Trinidadian New-Yorker inherited everything from the ladies who paved her way. She has Lil' Kim's, Foxy […]
LIL B - 6 Kiss The new fad with silly rappers. The weirdness of artsy hip-hop, mixed with the most extreme offenses of gangsta rap. The confessions, the vulnerability, the thugs with bleeding hearts. The confusion between mixtapes and […]
