{"id":5325,"date":"2025-06-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2025-06-19T21:13:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T01:13:51","slug":"dice-b-balance-diceboogie-vol-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/dice-b-balance-diceboogie-vol-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dice-B releases \u201cDiceBoogie Vol. 1 \u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3052c9cddb5d56c79fdf91a594d1e60f\">On May 30th, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/tag\/dice-b-2\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dice-B<\/a><\/strong>, a living monument of Quebec rap and veteran of the Montreal airwaves, made his big comeback with <strong><em>DiceBoogie Vol. 1<\/em><\/strong>. A 7-track project, presented by <strong>Crystal Discs<\/strong>, which combines wisdom, charisma and that boom-bap groove that only he knows how to distill. Mature hip-hop that hits hard enough to make the windows of your cousin&#039;s Civic rattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album opens with <strong><em>Existential<\/em><\/strong>, an introspective piece that asks the big questions \u2014 \u201cWho am I?\u201d style, but with swing. Follows <strong><em>No Mercy yeah<\/em><\/strong>, produced by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/tag\/dj-boogy\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DJ Boogy<\/a><\/strong>, which is also the first music video from the album.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f484c65d9a3a2eeba916b4c0a8443cfa\">On <strong><em>Man apart<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>Dice-B<\/strong> traces his solo path, faithful to his unclassifiable style. Then comes <strong><em>Boombap Nation<\/em><\/strong>, where Dice calls on his brother <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/tag\/sunshan\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sunshan<\/a><\/strong> : a true ode to purists. With<strong> <em>Drama<\/em><\/strong>, we enter a street film in CinemaScope, punchlines included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The finale is solid: <strong><em>That&#039;s how it is<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Chessboard<\/em><\/strong> close the curtain with finesse and strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dice-B<\/strong> plays chess while others are still playing hopscotch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dice B - No Mercy yeah (prod by Dj Boogy)\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wqTfGZiTIQI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">A living legend<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Active since 1984, <strong>Dice-B<\/strong> is not just a rapper: he is a living chapter in the history of Quebec hip-hop. Former member of the collective <strong>CatBurglaz<\/strong>, he is also the iconic host of <strong><em>Nuit Blanche  on Radio Centre-Ville<\/em> (102.3 FM)<\/strong>, a show that has become a cult classic in the Montreal landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mentor, unifier and eternally passionate, <strong>Dice-B<\/strong> helped lay the foundations of hip-hop culture here. And with <strong><em>DiceBoogie Vol. 1<\/em><\/strong>, he reminds us that he&#039;s still here \u2014 sharp, relevant, and true to his roots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Available now on all platforms for those who like their rap with experience and flavor.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/00JP2YuCiYgjv1kYhMcjUs?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"575\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Download the app&nbsp;<strong>Magazine Hip-Hop<\/strong>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/ca\/app\/magazine-hip-hop\/id6746479131?l=fr-CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>App Store<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 7-track project that combines wisdom, charisma and that boom-bap groove that only he knows how to distill. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":5358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[679,457,1564,55,59,670,678,1569,606,1128,201,1567,1565,330,1566],"class_list":["post-5325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quebec","tag-actualites","tag-dice-b","tag-dj-boogy","tag-entertainment","tag-featured","tag-hip-hop","tag-journal","tag-les-disques-crystal","tag-magazine-hip-hop","tag-media","tag-montreal","tag-nuit-blanche","tag-radio","tag-rap","tag-sunshan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5325"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}