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Tas Tappas disait : ''Il y a trois versions pour chaque histoire : ma version, ta version, et la vérité ''. Mais que croire quand l'histoire est narrée par des personnages instables, aux personnalités parfois multiples ? C'est la question que l'on peut légitimement se poser dès que l'on entend des anecdotes sur les Geto Boys circuler lors de documentaires ou interviews. Des on-dit tellement incroyables que lorsque que l'on se décide enfin à s'attarder sur le groupe de Houston, on s'aperçoit qu'elles n'étaient que banales et perdues au milieu d'un monstre fait de plus de quinze années de violence, de coups de feu, de liasses de billets verts, de sexe, de paranoïa, d'ennuis judiciaires et de troubles mentaux. Rien n'est considéré comme impensable quand on parle de la réalité du groupe le plus excitant que le hip hop n'ait jamais connu. Par où commencer ? Pour mieux comprendre les origines, faisons un bond en ar...

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On early August, the best UK hip hop label these years, High Focus , dropped the new Dirty Dike's single ''I Ain't Got A Clue'' , and at first I was a bit confused by the change of sound compared to his previous records. But after a few listens, I was totally hooked. The production by Joe Corfield goes so hard you can't do shit but head banging to the beat, especially in the middle of the second verse where a little mind blowing melody appears, so fucking intense it's driving me nuts every time. I think I listened to the song on repeat for two weeks. Finally, I ended up knowing all the lyrics, all the fine details in the instrumental. Total ripper. Dike is spitting his rhymes furiously, mixing serious topics with dark and tasteless humor the way he's so good at. Starting right on with ''I'm about to phone your mum a cab / Sober up your slag, don't open up your flange / Here, smoke a bunch of skag / Only joking, I'm your da...

These days are to me the Golden Age of UK hip hop, especially everything coming out of High Focus Records . Dirty Dike was and is always my favorite. He doesn't give a shit about anything, he has this edgy, crude and dark humor, plus an awesome raw flow that would murder anyone on a freestyle. In his precedent records, he was playing with his two sides that can clearly be heard on his songs. The fun side, represented by hits like ''Hi! I'm James'' , ''Ten Dike Commandments' ', or ''Pork Pie'' (with its now famous punchline during a break ''YEAH YEAH SHUT IT SLAG'' ), talking about parties, raving, drugs, graffitis, mates, dissing people for free, bragging and showing off, fucking shit up, and the other one where he makes us dive into his more personal, dark aspect of his life. And I think on this EP, the second one is way more present. There is a gloomy atmosphere throughout the entire record (Mr Boss' pr...

''Hip hop, the most progressive music in the bunch... So how's it been 40 years and all we fucking rap about is weapons?'' After a nearly perfect album, ''Mista Thug Isolation'', released in 2012, the production by Shawk Kemp (Lil Ugly Mane's alter ego. By the way, Seattle Supersonics' old school fans will appreciate the good taste of the nickname) in his last EP called ''Prelude To Panopticon'', the instrumentals evolve from a dark creepy sound close to these old 90's Memphis horrorshit, such as early Three Six Mafia, to a more eery sound, without totally leaving behind that southern touch that makes it instantly recognizable. The lyrics from the song of this seven inch, ''On Doing An Evil Deed Blues'' deal with his passion for hip hop, the recollection of working on his first beats and rhymes, putting out his tapes himself and going on stage without really making money. That's not the goal here ...