Two kings

Description

Separated by six hundred miles, Detroit and Camden share the infamous honor of ranking high on the list of American nightmare cities. Crushed by economic ruin, devoured by crime, gangrened by drugs, both cities have, like New York in its worst days, generated talents as skilled with microphones as with samplers, as formidable at rhyme as at production. Finale and Fel Sweetenberg are direct emanations from these metropolises of chaos, now connected by Effiscienz. For it is indeed to the Parisian label that we owe this alliance. Far from a simple agreement where each would remain entrenched in their own measures in a non-aggression pact, the two MCs have pooled their respective territories to build a hip hop kingdom they would rule together. Merciless to the weak. A dark kingdom, erected from rubble and debris, an arid production clashing with deconstructed loops, some of which, already used, rise from their ashes in a climate of muted violence. Jazz, soul, classical, gospel, lyrical grandeur, in an atmosphere of conquest or over the starkness of a crime film piano, the pair of rhymers compete on every beat, Finale tempering with a steady, thoughtful flow the ferocity of the fangs Fel sinks into every beat. This kingdom, Fel & Finale built alone, Fel Sweetenberg handling all the beats then delivered to the duo's ink-scrawled pages, the doors only cracking open to let Dj Djaz bring his sapphire arm to scar the groove with cuts. Balancing the forces, carrying their ambition beyond the ill-famed streets that have already crowned them, Finale & Fel Sweetenberg raise the matte colors of a demanding rap, the radiance of their banner now extending beyond the sole limits of the Detroit-Camden axis.Two kings, two crowns. One reign: that of hip hop.