With the release of "La Nocturne de Skyrock Volume 1", the radio show on the infamous French Radio station Skyrock drops it's first compilation album. La Nocturne has been one of the most popular shows on the station since day one, nine years ago this season.
The disc features some of the most anticipated talents Fred, the DJ of the show, invited to the studio the past year. With names like Tandem, Sinik, Rohff, Ol Kainry & Dany Dan, Kery James, Psy 4 De La Rime and Monsieur R, the show proves to be highly credible and respected in the scene.
Altough most songs have already been released on official albums or streettapes of the featured artists, some of these songs were premiered on the weekly show. With so many large market names included the balance on the CD seems to be somewhat off, looking at how most of the well known artists are featured on the first half.
It comes as a pleasant surprise however, to hear Youssoupha totally blast by any other artist featured on the album. On "Éternel Recommencement" ("Eternal loop") the young MC from Kinshasa (Congo), now repping Cergy, raps:
"Ma racaille d'a-bord puis les tripes Hip-Hop à tribord et j'combat Babylone à bâ-bord.
Aux abords c'est l'bordel, quand la horde sème le désordre et met la police hors d'elle.
C'est un rap mortel Hip-Hop-Blues, c'est ma cassette qu'on rembobine car elle met de l'hémoglobine sur la blouse.
Entre le bitume et la brousse faut que j'prouve comme à la russe-roulette j'ai que mes boules et pas d'bullet proof."
The track, 6.11 minutes of pure spitting, no hooks and no bars, is a pure display of MC-ing by definately one of the better up and coming lyricists of the French Hip Hop scene. A few lines on he spits pure fire with:
"Laisser une emprunte, faire de mon mieux pour qu'il n'y ai pas d'drame,
Car aucun d'nous n'a l'oral d'Abraham.
Rien qu'on blâme quand j'bla-blâtte ton blâme, quand je clame mon blâme et mon âme on veut la brader.
Tu sais qu'les bavards bavent sur mon blaze, blaguent sur mon blaze et à la base j'en suis blazé.
Je sais qu'ça va jaser, que ça va jacter et gazer sans tacte et assez décontracté Rares sont les contrats, nombreuses sont les contraintes mais nous on a parié sur notre musique à dix milles contre 1.
Viens dans nos contrées, avant de dénigrer comme Sarkozy ce fils de Polonais qui n'aime pas les immigrés."
This track proves to be one of the better highlights on the compilation. Youssoupha opens the clearly better half of the album, followed by Prince D'Arabee with "J'ai Épousé La Rue", a very tightly produced track with great lyrics. Other great tracks following the afore mentioned are Keny Arkana's "J'ai Épousé La Rue" and "Unité 2 Feu" by Légitime Défonce.
All in all the album is a great compilation with probably lesser known and younger artists out-perfroming the veterans by an inch, altough it's a tad dissapointing many of the tracks have been released on other albums before.
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