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Photos by: Jason Hodgins – Hip-hop artist Action Bronson, who released his second album, Mr. Wonderful, on March 23rd, 2015 via Atlantic/Vice, which featured the singles “Easy Rider”, “Actin Crazy”, “Terry”, and “Baby Blue”, was produced by several high-profile record producers, such as The Alchemist, Mark Ronson and Noah “40” Shebib, and which followed up his 2013 album, Blue Chips 2, performed at the Sound Academy in Toronto last … Continue reading
By: Lucy Sky – It’s not often in life that you get a little reminder of why you do what you do and are lucky enough to fall in love with it again, but be grateful if it happens. Classified hit the Bourbon Room in Ottawa last night on his Beautiful Escape tour, and the name … Continue reading
Photos by: Josh Ladouceur – Hip-Hop duo Banks And Steelz, which consists of Paul Banks of Interpol and RZA of Wu-Tang Clan, and who released their debut album, Anything But Words, on August 26th, 2016 via Warner Bros., which featured the singles “Love and War”, “Giant”, “Speedway Sonora”, “Sword in the Stone”, and “Anything But Words”, performed at the Mod Club in Toronto last night.
Photos by: Angelo Marchini (@AngelMarchini) – Los Angeles-based hip-hop artist Schoolboy Q, who released his fourth album, Blank Face, on July 8th via Top Dawg/Interscope, performed at the Sound Academy in Toronto last night.
By: Ben Wagg – ‘De La Soul is Dead’, or so they rapped on their 1991 LP of the same name, but yet after an 11-year hiatus, it seemingly fits just as well in 2016. After waning influence and radio silence, the possibility of another album seemed unlikely. However, following a successful $600,000 … Continue reading
By: Staff – Indie hip-hop phenoms Run the Jewels have just offered up a preview of “Panther Like a Panther,” a new song from their highly-anticipated third studio album, Run the Jewels 3. The track is exclusively featured in the Horde 3.0 debut trailer in support of the upcoming Gears of War 4, which launches on Xbox One and Windows 10 platforms Oct. 11. Watch the trailer below. “Run the … Continue reading
Photos by: Joshua Qubti-Andrews – New York City-based hip-hop artist Fat Joe, who released his newest single, “Cookin”, on August 3rd, 2016, which followed up his platinum-selling single “All The Way Up”, which serves as Fat Joe’s first top 40 hit since his 2007’s “I Won’t Tell”, performed at the Cabana Pool Bar in Toronto last night.
Photos by: Raymond Ahner (@photoray) – The 2016 Art of Rap Festival on July 24th at the Warfield in San Francisco featured performances by Public Enemy, who released their thirteenth album, Man Plans God Laughs, on July 16th, 2015 via Spitdigital, Ice-T, who released a new album with heavy metal band Bodycount titled Manslaughter on June 10th, … Continue reading
Photos by Josh Moody (@openlatedotorg) – Hip-Hop artist Anderson Paak, who released his second album, Malibu, on January 15th, 2016 via EMPIRE, performed at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto on July 22nd.
By: Lucy Sky – T his year alone, Vancouver’s own SonReal crossed Canada with Classified, is now going through the U.S. playing a sold out tour with Jon Bellion, and has recorded a new EP, which is set to drop on August 12th. The forthcoming The Name EP is definitely a SonReal album, in that it has … Continue reading
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