Émission du 24 février 2010

Ce soir à l'émission,

On s'entretient avec Bricc du groupe Underground Realroad qui vient de lancer son album "Slave 2 the Game." En plus, on vous fait écouter General Steele, Marco Polo & Rustee Juxx, Cypress Hill, M-Phazes, Statik Selektah et Planet Asia & Goldchain Military. On vous présente aussi 12Mé et Raph, Mokless de la Scred Connexion, The NewOld et Front Porch Poet. Vous pouvez aussi vous attendre à une petite session de freestyles. Bref, Soyez-là.

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Album de la semaine: Underground Realroad - Slave 2 the Game (Dope shit de Montréal. Check this out!)

Émission du 17 février 2010

Ce soir à l'émission,

On reçoit Steelo Kameni qui vient nous parler de son nouveau mixtape et de son entrée dans le monde du rap québ. Du côté des nouveautés, on vous présente Ron Contour & Factor, Canibus, Cypress Hill, Big Noyd, Freeway & Jake One et les Boombap Cats sur le mixtape Sativa Vol. 1 (en téléchargement gratuit). On vous présente aussi Larme Amer, Vertual Vertigo and 8bit, Obia le Chef et Sine Qua Non.

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Album de la semaine: Freeway & Jake One - The Stimulus Package

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Finally a 2010 hip hop release that's worth a damn, this year has started awfully slow for the genre... So here we have a classic 1 MC and 1 producer pairing (pretty much the way to go), from an unusual pairing but the synergy is definitely here. Jake One is a great producer who's made beats for just about everyone, but I can't say that I was totally satisfied with his producer album "White Van Music" back in 2008. Freeway is always an MC that I've enjoyed ever since his first guest spots on Jay-Z albums, his 2003 debut Philadelphia Freeway was pretty good but I felt that he could make something more consistent. His later albums weren't as good because of production problems, but you can bet that this problem is gone here. Jake One laces Freeway with some modern banging boom bap beats and they are really dope, there is so many great beats on this album and never no weak ones. Freeway flows effortlessly over them, he really feels at home over them which is nice to see. What's nice about this album is that it's very cohesive, it feels like a complete album without any filler or unnecessary songs. This is why 1 MC/1 producer albums are great, they actually feel like albums and not just a collection of random songs. It's still possible to make some quality hip hop in 2010, producers and MC's just have to stop being so fucking lazy and put some effort in their shit. This is the album we wanted Freeway to release all this time and the same goes for Jake One, I'd be surprised if we get 10 more hip hop releases in 2010 as good as this one.

Émission du 10 février 2010

Ce soir à l'émission,

Le nouveau beat va attendre la semaine prochaine puisqu'on fait notre rétrospective du rap en 2002. Vous entendrez Mr. Lif, Common, El-P, Non-Phixion, Jurassic 5, Krs-One, J-Live, Cee-Lo, Clipse, The Demigodz et Blackalicious. Coté canadien et français, on vous passe Muzion, DL Incognito et TTC. Bref, une heure et demie pour reminisce le bon vieux temps.

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Album de la semaine: The Roots - Phrenology

Émission du 3 février 2010

Ce soir à l'émission,

On vous revient avec une couple de primeur de fin 2009, début 2010. Vous entendrez le mixtape des Word Up Battles, Slum Village, The Roots, Funky DL, Madlib et Strong Arm Steady, Blu, Oddisee, Count Bass D & DJ Pocket et Obie Trice. On vous présente aussi quelques newcomers dans le rap comme DSTR, Diversion Tactics, Underground Realroad etThe Residents.

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Album de la semaine: Georgia Ann Muldrow - King's Ballad

Diction's review

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Welcome to 2010, a new year, a new decade, and here we have the first great album from it. Hot off here very good "Umsindo" record from just 6 months ago, Georgia Anne Muldrow outdoes herself and releases the best album of her career so far (well in my opinion of course). While Umsindo was a beautiful mess of freedom and soul experimentations, this one right here is a lot more focused with more straight forward songs. She's somehow more "on-beat" this time around, it has less of the free feeling and I think that it makes the record more easily approachable. She's hands down one of the best producers right now, easily pushing "neo-soul" music forward by herself and she doesn't need the help of no one. The productions on this record are amazing, a little Detroit influenced as always but she's slowly starting to build a sound that's unmatchable. Of course she also blesses them with her beautiful and unique vocal styles, she possesses a powerful sweet voice that backs the powerful lyrics. The more I play this record, the more I enjoy it and that's always a good sign. I have the feeling that the best is yet to come for Ms. One, she's got an immense talent and she doesn't seem to be running out of ideas anytime soon. I hope that this is the record that will give her the push she needs (go Ubiquity!) but I guess when Erykah Badu releases Amerykah Part 2 next month, this one will hit the backseat unfortunately. Anyway great album, I'm totally satisfied.