FRENCH MONTANA, JUICY J & PROJECT PAT - Cocaine Mafia I wish I was back in 2011. I would love to live this year again, when rap albums were boring, but we didn't give a damn, since week after week, Datpiff delivered mixtapes that were worth the best of them. I wish I could […]
IGGY AZALEA - Ignorant Art At first glance, this mixtape was some pure Los Angeles material. A few local rappers featured on it, like YG, Problem, and Joe Moses, and it was produced by the D.R.U.G.S. crew, later known through its association with […]
LADY LESHURR - Friggin L Lady Leshurr is one of those who, recently, benefited from the resurgence of grime. Over the last few months, with others such as Skepta or Stormzy, the British rapper caught the attention of her American peers, through […]
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 […]
2 CHAINZ - T.R.U. REALigion Not all major rappers in the early 2010's were newcomers. The obvious example was 2 Chainz. Tauheed Epps had to pass his 30th birthday, indeed, to finally become a star. Prior to this, he had a career as a member of […]
LIL WAYNE - Sorry 4 the Wait People got bored, after all the craze around the Dedication and Da Drought series. Or, possibly, they were convinced that Lil Wayne was now on a downward slope. Or maybe it was no longer surprising, in the 2010's, to […]
YOUNG JEEZY - The Real Is Back 2 Jeezy's most glorious days took place in 2005. That very year, he released his (classic) mixtape Trap or Die, a record from his band, Boyz n da Hood, and his (classic, again) solo album, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation […]
FUTURE - True Story One of the major events of 2015, as far as rap music is concerned, is the renaissance of Future. After Honest, a disappointing second album, the Atlanta rapper went back to his basics with a series of great mixtapes, […]
ALLEY BOY - Purgatory The best time in Alley Boy's career was 2011. Taking place between his first steps as a rapper in Gucci Mane's shadow – he had featured on Chicken Talk 2 in 2008 – and The Gift of Discernment in 2012 – his most exposed […]