Émission du 18 février 2009

Ce soir à l'émission,

Nous avons un programme chargé de nouveautés juste pour vous. On vous présente Rise and the Avid Record Collector, A.P., Sonreal, Billy Woods et theBREAX. Coté plus connu, on a du Blu, C-Rayz Walz, Move.Meant, Q-Unique, La Coka Nostra et peut-être un peu de Busta Rhymes. En plsu de tout ça, on kick des freestyles sur des beats fous et on vous fait écouter un excellent album qui s'en vient.

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Album de la semaine: Braille & Symbolic One- Cloudnineteen (Je laisse diction vous en parler.)

Diction's review:

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One of the best formulas to make a good hip hop record as been 1 producer and 1 MC for a long time and it seems this trend is starting to take place again. Just look at many of the historic records from Guru + DJ Premier, Pete Rock + CL Smooth, Talib Kweli + Hi-Tek, Madlib + MF Doom up til the recent years with projects from Blu + Exile and Insight + Damu just to name a few, the 1 producer/1 MC is a winning formula most of the time. Here we a have team up of 2 veterans of underground hip hop, Braille has been rapping for 10 years from his solo records to the christian supergroup Lightheaded and Symbolic One has been steadily pumping beats this decade mostly for his group Strange Fruit Project. Both artists are pretty good on their own and the combination of both here feels really natural, Braille just fits perfectly on S1's production style and it feels like both are just made to be together. Yes Braille sometimes raps about religion and god, does that bother you? I think hip hop is about speaking your reality, whether it's about being a pimp, a gangster or a revolutionary, you rap about the things in your life. So to me there's nothing wrong with Braille being christian as long as he shows skills, but really I think his strongest aspect is definitely his sincerity. The "real life" situations he raps about makes it easy to relate to and S1's production is really good too so it's rather easy to enjoy this album. We have here a really strong effort and it's close to being the career highlight for both artists, it's my favorite hip hop release of 2009 so far (but it's still early in the year).