LIL DEBBIE - Debbie The White Girl Mob didn't last long. This band of female rappers quickly split. And its two famous members, its figurehead Kreayshawn, and V-Nasty, once a collaborator of Gucci Mane, are now AWOL. Today, the only one […]
KATE TEMPEST - Let Them Eat Chaos Kate Tempest represents another tradition in UK's rap scene. The one, as a matter of fact, which is not really about rap. The one from other Brits connected to hip-hop, like The Streets, but also from people unrelated to […]
ASIAN DOLL - Drippin' in Glo This is an implicit law in rap music: at one step or another of its story, any major collective must have a female member. One of these crews, however – and not the least – had been an exception for quite a long time: […]
QUEEN KEY - Your Highness Queen Key is the embodiment of rap's take on feminism. Instead of desexualizing women, she talks about lust, loudly and proudly. Her approach, though, is different from CupcaKke's, her Chicago colleague,. Ke'Asha McClure […]
STEFFLON DON - Real Ting Stefflon Don was the woman quota in the last Freshmen. Though she has the particularity of not being American – she is a Brit who grew up in the Netherlands – this choice is not a total surprise. Stephanie Allen, indeed, […]
LORD NARF - Witchcraft Lord Narf deserves a place in Awful Records, among that collection of weirdos, based for most of them in Atlanta. She complies with the experimental aspirations of this iconoclastic band of rappers. Like them, she is the […]
CAM & CHINA - Cam & China By the end of the noughties, a dance style called jerk, or jerkin', became all the rage in the streets of Los Angeles. Soon, it would create its own musical genre, a bit like its Bay Area cousin, hyphy. Though ephemeral, […]
NONAME - Telefone The wait was long, before Fatimah Warner's first project, Telefone, was disclosed. Released in 2016 only, it was first announced three years earlier, when Noname Gypsy – now just Noname – made a name for herself with her […]
JIMMY WOPO - Woponese As the year 2016 is coming to an end, let's review its new faces, and decide who really deserves our attention. Among those is Travon Smart, a.k.a. Jimmy Wopo, a young man from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who surfaced with […]
KANYE WEST - The Life of Pablo Let's forget Kanye's mischiefs for a second. Let's put aside his recent words in favor of Donald Trump, or his hospital admission, and focus on the essentials: his latest work. Now is finally the right time. So, let's […]
KAMAIYAH - A Good Night in the Ghetto Rap is no longer the light-hearted music it used to be, a while ago. Neither its conscious side – or what is left of it – nor the materialistic and violent one, radiate with joy and happiness. Even the most hedonistic […]
