Émission du 30 mai 2007

Ce soir à l'émission,

On vous passe du Sen Dog, Royce da 5'9, Common et Rappin 4'Tay & Squirrel. On vous présentera aussi Defiant Kinetics et Dirk Thornton. On vous mixe le tout avec plein de old school et ça devrait être bon.

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Album de la semaine: Zeph & Azeem - Rise Up (Du bon rap original de deux vétérans de la scène californienne underground)
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Émission du 23 mai 2007

Ce soir à l'émission,
On vous présente The Breax (Ruslan Beleaf Mic B Eye Am) et Autism. On vous passe aussi quelques gros noms comme Jurassic 5, Kurupt & J Wells, Styles P, WC et des productions de Primo. Comme d'habitude, le tout mixé avec une sélection de classiques du rap et du shit underground!

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Album de la semaine: KRS One & Marley Marl - Hip Hop Lives (C'est tout chaud, une réunion de 2 anciens du rap qui en fera sourire quelques uns et qui en fera pleurer d'autre...)


Opinion de diction....

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Lyrics: 3.25
Beats: 2.5


KRS & Marley Marl squash their 20 year old beef and unite to bring the real hip hop back. After giving us 2 hot singles the album looked very promising but it fails to deliver the goods. The problems are from both artists. On one side you have Marley Marl who's one of the most influential producers of all time but who hasn't really been active in the past few years. He's got to adapt his style to the new styles of the ever evolving hip hop genre, but can't really seem to make good beats. Apart from a few songs the beats are terribly average. On the other side you have KRS-One who's arguably the greatest MC of all time, he's had one of the best careers and he's still active hot off a pretty good performance from last year's slept-on "Life". I was expecting an equal or superior performance, since he's got the peoples attention with this project, but instead KRS brings one his laziest performances of his career. He still goes on and on about what he did he was there, I am real hip hop, blah blah blah, he's getting a little repetitive... Of course there is a few exceptions like "Kill a Rapper" which is a great track about all the unresolved murders of rappers. "Rising to the Top" has KRS explaining his motives being the whole beef and how it was stupid. I like the honesty of a now older wiser man. But most of the rest of the album falls up short lyrically, too much braggin about past achievements, it's not bad but it's not really the reasons why I loved KRS in the first place. This is one of those albums that could have been great but just ain't... A major dissapointment from 2 of my favorite artists.

Émission du 16 mai 2007

Ce soir à l'émission,
on vous kick du Braille, UGK ft Outkast, Black Milk et Godfather Don. On vous présente aussi Detail, Toolshed et Infinito 2017. À part ça, du bon shit et des surprises comme d'habitude.

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Album de la semaine: Marco Polo - Port Authority (Excellent album de ce beatmaker New Yorkais... Check it out!!!)

Diction's review... @@@@


Marco Polo is a canadian producer that now resides in New York. He's been coming up in the last few years with some beats here and there for various rappers but I think he really got noticed when he dropped 3 definitive bangers for the Boot Camp Clik last year. He makes some boom bap beats that really bring back the flavor of the mid 90's somehow similar to DJ Premier & Pete Rock. The production is bangin from start to finish, I really love his beats. The album has an all-star lineup with many dope featurings from old school legends to newer up & coming mc's. Marco Polo really brings out the best out of many mc's, "Get Busy" is the best Copywrite song I heard in a while, "Marquee" is the best O.C. song I heard in a while, "War" is the best Kardinal track I heard in a while, etc... This might be the album that brings back Rawkus as one of top underground hip hop labels again, this shit is really dope. Highly recommended to all hip hop fans of the world.

Émission du 9 mai 07 ... Le retour

Yo! Y fait chaud dans les studios de choq.fm parce que la session d'été est arrivée. On commence tout en nouveauté en vous présentant: Bonshah, Hoodz Underground, Mr. J. Medeiros & Buff1. À part ça, on vous kick Joell Ortiz ft Immortal Technique, Moka Only, Guru & MF Grimm. Comme d'habitude, on a aussi quelques surprises. Que du bon shit!

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Album de la semaine: Polyrhythm Addicts - Break Glass

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The Polyrhythm Addicts first appeared in the late 90's as a underground super group and dropped a very dope album called "Rhyme Related". The crew then consisted of DJ Spinna, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Mr. Complex & Apani B. Fly Emcee. Now 8 years laters the group re-unites but they have replaced Apani with Tiye Phoenix. At first I was a little dissapointed with the replacement but after listening to her verses on the album I quickly changed my mind. She spits really good and I think I actually like her better than Apani. DJ Spinna has experimented with a more electronic sound in the last few years but on this album it's the return to the straight boom bap NY rugged shit. The whole album is very cohesive with no soft shit allowed. I think it was about time that a New York group finally came out with an album that sounds like New York. It seems the whole city is too busy trying to immitate the south and forgot what made the city good in the first place. Mr. Complex & Shabaam are dope but it's really Tiye Phoenix who steals the show, but they just make a great team overall. Big up to the Polyrhythm Addicts for bringing back that real hip hop shit!