After days of setting up stages, distributing wristbands, and calming anxiety-stricken Beliebers, the 2012 MMVAs are finally beyond us, and with no shortage of eccentric stars or taboo turn-off-the-TVisms, to boot. If you missed this year’s televised awards show, you can still catch the recorded shindig on the Much Music website. If you’re like...
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We’ve been hearing rumours of a solo project from Class of 93‘s KZARAW for a couple months now, so imagine my delight to get put on to the latest from the west side rhymeslayer. K goes in over the Just Blaze-produced “Exhibit A” in the aptly titled freestyle track in preparation for her upcoming...
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Y’all already know LYVE makes the beats bang, but get him on the mic alongside TOP TEAM accomplice NISH RAAWKS and you’ve got one very dirty track. This one’s called “Eyes Open”, off the duo’s debut album set to drop sometime this year. “And it IS what you think it is,” writes Lyve, “Offensive raps...
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Hell Yea F*ckin Right! Two brand new videos from DRAKE this weekend, the fourth and fifth official singles off his sophomore album Take Care. “HYFR” was shot as a re-enactment of Drake’s recent “re-Bar Mitzvah” ceremony at Temple Israel in Miami with special guests including Trey Songz, DJ Khaled, and fellow Torontonian OB O’Brien. Drake even stuck around...
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This weekend, the 41st annual JUNO Awards Ceremony was held in the nation’s capital of Ottawa. Aside from being an assemblage of Who’s-Who in the local music biz, the JUNOS have long been a source of discord in the Canadian music industry, where it seems that many are divided on the integrity of the...
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RICH KIDD drops yet another gem, this time from his upcoming collaborative mixtape with DJ NaNa, Rich Kidd VS. dj NaNa: Two. The Sauga City emcee/producer offers a glance at every day life in Ridgeway with this one-take video directed by Danielle Da Silva Productions. We’re loving the way DE GAZITY‘s smooth vocals meld with the Show...
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Seems like we never really get around to honouring our legends while they’re alive, so on March 9 we salute one of Brooklyn’s finest, AZ the Visualiza. “Magic Hour” first appeared as part of an extended bonus track on A.W.O.L. back in 2005, and would later be officially released on Sosa’s Final Call (The...
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Is it a vlog? Is it an EPK? Found this video on 2DBZ and whatever it is, this vid offers viewers a great introduction not only to THE AIRPLANE BOYS but also to our beautiful city. Shouts to director Warren Credo for his delivery on the five minute short. Catch The Airplane Boys at this...
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K’NAAN drops the visuals for his new track featuring NAS; the video for “Nothing to Lose” was filmed in the T-Dot and is just generally hype as f*ck. A classic match-up between two talented lyricists, packed full of quotable gems such as K’naan’s cool quip, “N*ggas looked corny I admit, we was foreigners, but this corny...
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My dude JUNIA-T hit me up this afternoon with a new track he’s just released, an aptly titled tribute to the late, great J Dilla. The thing I love about Junz is that he’s always dropping knowledge, and this track is no exception. ”Write songs for the modern day kings that grind hard… The...
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