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 […]
AESOP ROCK - Appleseed 1999 is, somehow, the apex of the indie rap era. Many gems are recorded, that year. The more we dig, the more of these we find, released by small labels, or self-released. Appleseed is one of these. With its eight tracks […]
THE UNDERACHIEVERS - Indigoism Based in Brooklyn, The Underachievers are presented as affiliates to the Beast Coast movement, a band of rappers somehow associated with A$AP Rocky and his A$AP Mob collective, and whose most prominent member is Joey […]
MF DOOM - Operation Doomsday By 1999, the excellence of the newly released Operation Doomsday album was not a surprise, to those already familiar with New-York's underground rap scene. By then, MF Doom had already released several great singles on […]
SONIC SUM - The Sanity Annex It is, in some way, a forgotten classic. This album didn't really make its way, beyond a small clique of rap connoisseurs. Music critics, including the generalists, have been quite positive when The Sanity Annex was […]
ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM - Tragic Epilogue Antipop Consortium's very name, as well as the cover of their first album art, hinted clearly about the trio's purposes: they were all about arts. Originally identified through the Nuyorican Café and the Rap Meets Poetry […]
NECRO - I Need Drugs A beatmaker for Non-Phixion, Cage, Missing Linx and a few others, and also an MC, the boss of the Psycho+Logical label, and a video maker, Necro is a major character in New-York's underground rap scene. He is its […]