Émission du 23 septembre 2009

Ce soir à l'émission,

On va faire une entrevue téléphonique avec le producer de l'album "Double Barrel": Marco Polo. Nous parlerons de ses récents succès, de ses influences et peut-être quelques trucs de production pour faire des gros beats... Coté musique, vous entendrez les nouveaux albums de Declaime, Ghostface Killah, Kid Cudi, Ill Bill, Skyzoo et Mc Esoteric. On vous présente aussi Audio Pharmacy, Proverb The Poet et une compil de France: Projet Soldat Inconnu.

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Album de la semaine: Brother Ali - US

Diction's review: @@@@

"I started rhyming just to be somebody... I found out that I already was"

Brother Ali has so much soul. This is what I would call reality rap. No not like what Ice Cube was doing at all, but just a man who speaks about his life and what happens into it. Nothing about crack or pimping hoes, his life is pretty much as normal as it can get and it had regular problems. Well despite that he's a white muslim albino, but all that doesn't really matter very much. With his first proper album "Shadows on the Sun", Ali was really more focused on impressing people with his rapping technique and skills. The people really noticed that he had skills but it's with his 2nd release "The Undisputed Truth" that he really got more personal in his stories. This one goes even further in that direction, it definitely has less of his technique but much more feeling. I'm pretty sure he could have continued to go in the direction that SOTS was, but I really appreciate his evolution and where he's taking his music to. I just can't help but to feel the man when he speaks, his rapping really drags you into the songs and you have to pay attention to every word he says. It is easily my favorite rapping performance of the year, even is it's not that impressive on the technical side it doesn't matter because he's rapping about something that actually matters. The production from ANT is alot smoother than what he usually does, the beats have a more soulful feel to match with what Brother Ali is doing and they really fit perfectly. Overall it is really a great album, it looks like Brother Ali is gonna be able to pump out those for a long time coming, he's slowly etching himself as one of the great rappers.