ICE BURGANDY - Progress Involves Risk Unfortunately Last year, Lonnie Bands from BandGang released his strong KOD album. And there, the "Detroit To Inglewood" track underlined the many connections between the Midwest and the Californian scenes, with people like […]
AZEALIA BANKS - 1991 By 2010, finally, pop music in the US started exploiting the sounds of electronic music. By then, similarly to the Euro-Dance genre, though twenty years later, some of its stars adapted the sounds of house or techno […]
KATIE GOT BANDZ - Bandz And Hittaz By 2011, just when drill music starts buzzing outside of Chicago, BlockOnDaTrack, a local beatmaker, decides it is time to offer a feminine voice to this virile sound. He convinces his cousin Kiara Johnson - a student […]
ANGEL HAZE - Reservation The first facts to be noticed, with Angel Haze, are about her identity and her life experience. Originally from the Detroit area, Raykeea Raeen-Roes Wilson - or more simply Roes, her future stage name - is not only an […]
AMBER LONDON - 1994 EP There's always a time, with any music, when its practitioners start getting conscious of their heritage. A time when everything needs to be defined relative to the past. In hip-hop, this phenomenon is not new, but it got […]
3D NA'TEE - The Coronation The dozens are an old African-American tradition. It goes back to the times of slavery. The work the poor fellows were condemned to, in the cotton fields, was not exactly a pleasant one, so some slaves killed times with […]
CHIEF KEEF - Back From The Dead It is no coincidence if, in February this year, Chief Keef announced the release of a mixtape called Back From The Dead 2. While titling it as the release that revealed him, the figurehead of Chicago's drill music scene […]
BLUE SKY BLACK DEATH & NACHO PICASSO - Exalted Exalted being the third collaborative mixtape from Nacho Picasso and Blue Sky Black Death recorded in a few months, it is somehow expected that, at such a stage, the work from the Seattle rapper and the two producers […]
