Writing reviews are a funny thing. I really enjoy doing it because I think a good review imagines a conversation between the author and the reviewer. Most reviews are not approached this way. Many simply present very personal views or they are quite technical analyses based on the standards and conventions for the genre of…
Jun 7th, 2010
So, my impending move to Darwin is getting closer and with each day so the thoughts regarding how I plan to transplant my life to this distant city become more concrete. You can only make a decision like this if you can imagine yourself there, but this does not always translate into the practical reality…
Jan 9th, 2006
Time to sift through the end-of-year french hip-hop acquisitions… Starting with Cuizinier and his "Pour les filles" mixtape release. I can’t say how much I dig this emcee’s "naughty" style on the TTC releases, but this album is not all that impressive. It contains mainly remixes or US hip-hop and pop tracks with him dropping…
It started with a need to listen to some of my french hip-hop that I’ve been neglecting lately. Reminiscing upon how shit a week it has been, I stumbled across these lyrics from TTC – De pauvres riches: "Putain c’est la merde ! Pour quoi tu dis ca ? Chez moi c’est la misere !…
Sep 13th, 2005
Does it get any better than this album? Tight production and tighter lyrics. Can Doom, the hip-hop super villain, do any wrong? I think not… If I’m not mistaken, this album is a collaboration, not only between Doom and DM, but the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. It was only a matter of time that the…