Kid Fonque is one of South Africa’s most eclectic and credible DJs: one who’s always stuck to his guns, garnering respect for refusing to pander to instant fandom or passing fads….
2 SIDES OF THE BEAT - Mixed By KID FONQUE
TALIB KWELI-Gutter Rainbows
It started off as digital release because Kweli wanted to touch his fans directly….
MF DOOM – “Born like this”
Abstract, dark and shadowy with a lot of flavor is what…..
MADLIB – “WLIBAM : King of the wigflip”
WLIBAM is not as heavy as other albums that have……..
LUDACRIS – “Theatre of the mind”
Theatre of the mind has cameos from a lot of non-music celebrities like….
JAMIE FOXX – “Intuition”
The first half of the album is more impressive. There are …..
ILLA J – “Yancey Boys”
Illa J is Jay Dilla’s brother. You might have seen him on….
ICE CUBE – “Raw Footage”
West Coast hip hop….
GURU’S JAZZMATAZZ – “The Mixtape (Back to the future)”
With Dj Doo Wop hyping your shit up, you can’t go wrong. Guru laces nice flows over……
GRANDMASTA FLASH – “The Bridge”
He has been in the game for almost 3 decades and the man can be classified as one of the originators of hip hop……
E-40 – “ The Ball Street Journal”
Block busting. Finger snapping beats. This album …..
DJ MUGGS AND PLANET ASIA – “Pain Language”
A well put together album from ….
DJ KHALED – “We Global”
Yet again, it’s that south side synth sound that we have been hearing for a while now……
DEVIN THE DUDE – “Landing Gear”
Devin the dude continues with his style of……….
ZUBZ – “ Cochlea”
Never disappointing when it comes to musicality, beats, subject matter……..
RATTEX – Bread and Butter
Khayelitsha and the whole of Cape Town should be proud of this one because …..
Jim Jones – “Pray IV Reign”
All the tracks on this album have some sort of radio appeal. They have that kind of…
Flo Rida – “R.O.O.T.S”
It’s a decent album, with features from….
COMMON – “Universal Mind Control”
On this release, Common takes it back to the days of electro with….
BLACK MILK – “Tronic”
Detroit Native Black Milk is reason to believe that the Jay Dilla sound lives on…..
BEYONCE – I am…..Sasha Fierce
This is undoubtedly one of the most powerful and influential women in music. This is a double disc….
Asher Roth – “Asleep in the Bread Aisle”
Player haters and critics are gonna say that this is another boy trying to be Eminem….
AKON – “Freedom”
If you are sick and tired of hearing Akon on every single, then this album…
ACE HOOD-“Gutter”
Swagger filled grimey, south side flow over south side electronic beats…
88 Keys – “ The Death of Adam”
Hip hop being in the new age of creativity and experimentation, this album might leave you thinking that…………….
THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE – “Leave it all behind”
This is a good representation of 2 nations, United States and Holland to be specific.
JEDI MIND TRIX – “A History of Violence”
It may not be the same as “Violent by design” but………..
Q-TIP – The Renaissance
Q-Tip is back in the groove with retro meets future type of beats.
