Émission du 25 novembre

Ce soir à l'émission,

On vous présente des nouveaux groupes comme Kahlex, Jedi Knights Circle, Les frères d'armes et Le Bavar ft Anfalsh. On vous présente aussi le tant attendu O.C. & A.G qu'on attendait pas tant que ça finalement. Vous entendrez aussi Kyprios, Factor, ODB, Get Busy Committee, Ghettosocks et Brother Ali avec Toki Wright et Evidence.

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Album de la semaine: Sole & The Skyrider Band - Plastique (Weird)...

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Anticon is a bunch of pretentious bullshit but once in a while they do come up with something that's good, and most of the time it's from Sole. The first Sole & The Skyrider Band album was one of my favorite releases of 2007, it was a unique twist on where hip hop could be taken and it worked out wonderfully. This follow-up picks right up where the debut left, it's still dark and apocalyptic and with highly negative topics. Sole really masters the depressive paranoiac raps like no one else, he's highly skilled and this style really fits perfectly over the Skyrider Band's almost post-rockish music. At times it feels like this is the result of what it would sound like if someone rapped over Godspeed You Black Emperor. The words really escape when me when trying to describe what's happening in the "beats", it's really some original stuff that no one really attempts to do. I still think the first album is a little superior, this misses the "oh wow, this actually works" factor and the productions aren't really as powerful... But this is really good stuff anyhow and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend to the fans of the first album. Easily one of the most original hip hop LP's of 2009 (that doesn't suck), definitely worth checking for the hip hop fans who aren't afraid of something a little different.

"You say you hear the planet singing, but how can it sing when its throat been slit?"

Émission du 18 novembre 2009

Ce soir à l'émission,

On prend ça relax avec les quelques nouveaux albums de la semaine. Rakim, Koma, Iswhat, Themselves et Strange Fruit Project vont combler votre envie de nouveau rap bien frais. Si on regarde vers une couples de nouveaux groupes, on a Kid Millions, Blits The Ambassador, Serum, MSI, Lowkey avec Immortal Technique et Diamond District (Oddisee, Yu et XO). On vous kick aussiu une couple de bon b-sides old school.

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Album de la semaine: Murs & Slug - Felt 3

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Well I wasn't too sure on my first spin what to think of this, but after giving it a little more time I'm really digging this. The first thing to take into mind is that it's not Felt 2: The Sequel, it's really something else totally. With Aesop Rock on production, this is like an Aesop Rock album with different rappers. Even Murs & Slug aren't rapping like they usually are as it might seem that they are "lazy" at first, but really they are just trying something new and having fun with it (Get Cake? lol!). Seems rather a weird concept to do over some of those Aesop Rock beats but shit works fine when you accept this for what it is... Actually I'm really digging his beats, just like his music it requires more than the initial spin to catch everything that it going on. I'm not really surprised that it's throwing a lot of fans off cause whenever artists try to do something different in hip hop they usually get shitted on (not that I'm not guilty of this too), but hey I think it actually works out fine this time around. Very raw beats and raw rapping, pretty cool stuff and I can picture this growing on me even more with given time.

Émission du 11 novembre 2009

Ce soir à l'émission,

Il nous reste encore quelques nouveaux albums à vous faire écouter, un peu de francophone et des Wu-affiliates. Coté France, Mesrimes, Sake et Thomas Traore. Coté américain, on vous fait écouter, Cunninlynguists, Hell Rell, Freeway, JJ Brown, Shyheim et,P.R. Terrorists, Maestros et Daz Dillinger.

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Album de la semaine: Dramat!k avec un cas - La Boîte Noire (Probablement un des meilleurs albums québécois de l'année. Un rapper mature qui se déchaine sur des gros beats avec des textes durs et revendicateurs comme dans le temps de Muzion. Props!!)

Émission du 4 novembre 2009

Ce soir à l'émission,

On a une dose de rap français de qualité juste pour vous: Kool Shen de NTM, Effectif Dameurs, La Méthode, CRS, Ras, et ED alias Kafri. Coté nouveautés, on vous envoie Wale, Speak Easy, Raw Nature, Gift of Gab, Phil Nash et Nabz Supreme & Moka Only. Soyez des nôtres pour une grosse soirée de HH!

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Album de la semaine: D. Black - Ali'yah

Normally, I probably would have skipped an album from such an unknown MC, but after hearing one of the songs from the album I just had to check it cause it showed mad potential. And I'm very glad that I did, because this album is really good and it's a nice reminder of just how ill Vitamin D and Jake One are as producers. D. Black is an up and coming MC from Seattle and that's why you see the connection with the city's finest producers in there, although there is a few other names that I'm not familiar with (B. Brown, GMK and Kuddie Mak). Overall the production on this is very nice, really a modern hip hop sound that I can really get down with and just grabs me instantly. Pretty much every beat here is on point and the album has a good cohesive sound which makes it a pretty nice listen. D. Black is definitely above average, his style is semi-conscious but I feel that he's missing a little bit of mic presence for him to be truly great... It's not that what he raps about is not interesting, he's perhaps just missing a little bit of emotion. I guess it's just a small criticism cause I still dig him and the album is very good anyway. It's sad that the album will be totally slept-on since the only thing he's got for a little hype is 3 Jake One beats, but that's the reality of most underground MC's in 2009.