YOUNG NUDY - DR. EV4L With its cover art that looked like a photocopy, his disturbing music, and his psychopathic lyrics, Anyways… didn't look like what it was supposed to be: Young Nudy's first official album. His raps weren't welcoming, his […]
CHIEF KEEF - 4NEM In the last few years, Chief Keef didn't stop being the prolific rapper we know. He collaborated with Zaytoven and he provided follow-ups to the Leek and GloFiles mixtapes. None of these, though, pretended to be an […]
BABY KEEM - The Melodic Blue Hykeem Carter doesn't arrive out of nowhere. It was eventually disclosed that the rapper, born close to Los Angeles and raised in Las Vegas, is Kendrick Lamar's cousin. This is why he featured, while still unknown, on […]
MACH-HOMMY - Pray For Haiti Mach-Hommy has not always chased success. Like some other underground heroes, he has shunned the medias for a while. Not much is known about his identity, and he is always masked, his face hidden behind the Haitian flag […]
KA - A Martyr's Reward Looking at the year-end album lists in 2021, judging by the strong presence of people such as the Griselda crew, their pal Mach-Hommy, MIKE, Wiki, Moor Mother, Armand Hammer, and a few others, it looks like the center of […]
BENNY THE BUTCHER - The Plugs I Met 2 Here we are. After his rise over the previous decade - and the decisive support of Jay-Z's Roc Nation – the fruit is ripe for Benny the Butcher, as for the Griselda crew more generally. He is put into orbit. He is […]
BROCKHAMPTON - Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine A rap album with an outstandingly large musical spectrum, proposing in one go a few boom bap beats and g-funk sirens, but also a bit of pop, rock, classy soul, old R&B sang with a falsetto, and a pinch of gospel and […]
DEVIN THE DUDE - Soulful Distance What can Devin Copeland do, while locked-down during the COVID era? Well, smoke marijuana, of course. Relax and chill with his close ones, obviously. And record music. So pretty much the same as usual, more or less. […]
FREDO - Money Can't Buy Happiness Some time ago, on the forum of this very blog, one of the regulars compared Dave to Abd al Malik, a quite embarrassing French rapper. Ouch, that hurts… However, it is not entirely unfounded. Both rappers, indeed, share […]
