Émission du 7 mai 2008 - Back 4 da Summer

À partir de ce soir et jusqu'au mois d'août, l'émission débutera à 20h30 au lieu de 20h.

Ce soir, on vous présente juste des nouveautés. Tout ce qui est sorti pendant nos 3 semaines de congé. Nouveaux singles de Rza, Busta Rhymes et de Outkast featuring Raekwon, nouveaux albums de Atmosphere, All Natural, 7l & Esoteric, Blueprint, Lyrics Born, Keith Murray et 9th Wonder & Buckshot. À part ça, on vous présente Dagha, Randam Luck, C.R.A.C. Knuckles & Kreative Resource.

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Album de la semaine: The Roots - Rising Down (Je laisse Diction en parler:)

Well this is about to be my most negative 4 star review I ever dropped. At the same time I love and hate this album. I love what ?uest is doing with the production, once again changing his drum style and just going in a direction that The Roots have never been to. I love that dark gutter sound and mixed with those synths from hell it gives the album an incredible sound overall, it's really well executed. I'm dissapointed that they didn't make another album with the Game Theory sound (which in my opinion is the greatest Roots sound so far), but The Roots making the same album twice would break the purpose of the group. We are so far from the sound of Organix/DYWM and even more recent works of Things Fall Apart and Phrenology, even those are "old school" for The Roots now. The major thing that bothers me with the album is the abundance of guests. It seems that on every song there is an unecessary guest. I know they aimed for a "posse" political rap album, but the results are that the songs have no personality. When you have one of the best MC's of all time in your group, you should be letting him rap more. Especially how he murdered the 2 last albums, he just seemed to be getting better and better. It pisses me off to have to hear all these guest rappers, they really come off lazy and really don't push the songs to the next level. Well I feel it's good to hear Mos Def start things up after the depressing intro, but Styles P's presence just fucks up the song with his wack claritin rhymes. I really feel like telling Peedi Peedi to shut the fuck up on "Get Busy", I was feelin him last time around but he just feels out of place here. Even old crew favorites like Dice Raw and Malik B come off a little sloppy, I don't sense the passion they had in the past. The new affiliates from Game Theory also show in abundance, they aren't awful but I don't really like them more than that. The worst guest spot has got to be Wale on "Rising Up", he fucks up a track that could have been an album highligth... but still I kinda love this album cause the production work is so damn nice. I guess I was too greedy with my expectations, I feel that the group could have released a much better album if they had focused harder. For a political album the songs are a little pointless, the whole album feels like a messy affair. Plus you had ?uestlove fronting like this was the best Roots album to date, I had that little expectation in me that maybe it could actually match Game Theory. It's pointless to compare it to that album because Game Theory is just superior in every aspect. Whenever I play the album, there isn't a moment where I'm saying "Shit I can't wait to hear this verse!", there's only "Criminal" that is on the standard classic roots standard. Please ?uestlove before letting someone rap on a Roots album, make sure he's gonna come as tight or better than Black Thougth. Just imagine if Paid in Full had 15 guests spots, it wouldn't be really on the same level. Also next time put more hidden details in those beats, I already feel like I've memorised everything within just a week of listens. Why am I complaining tho, this album is still the shit!