Reunions: the new hip-hop movement?
Posted by Anupa in Film, media, Music, Rappers, Toronto on 29. Mar, 2011 | 0 Comments
The above flick has been making the rounds in Toronto hip-hop circles recently; a shot corralled on Feb. 12, 2011 of some of Toronto’s biggest heads who came together to celebrate an iconic time slot in local rap radio. The same folks, and a bunch more, are featured in Celine Wong‘s just-uploaded short film, 1 [...]
RIP Nate Dogg: it wasn’t a hit til he spit
Posted by Anupa in Music, Obit, Rappers on 16. Mar, 2011 | 1 Comment
Nate Dogg, G-funk devotee, the definitive hip-hop hook singer, passed away late yesterday. He was only 41 years old — “health issues” are cited as the cause of death — but had come to be a sub-icon of West Coast rap, getting his start working with Snoop Dogg in the early 90s and debuting on [...]
J Dilla Still Shining in Toronto
Posted by Anupa in Canada, Music, Rappers, Toronto on 07. Feb, 2011 | 0 Comments
February is basically official “Rest in Peace J Dilla” month in the hip-hop-verse. There are a million and one awesome tributes out there–Jay Dee nostalgia is pretty much a cottage industry–but props go to Toronto originators The Real Frequency crew for a particularly local shout out. This morning “Still Shining” dropped; it’s a short film [...]
D-Sisive, bringing fat rap back
Posted by Anupa in Canada, Music, Rappers on 11. Jan, 2011 | 2 Comments
If I asked you to name some of your favourite fat rappers, or rappers who have referenced their girth (not that girth) in song, you’d name off a glut. Fat rap is nothing new: it rejoiced under Chubb Rock and Biz Markie, became sexy with B.I.G., took us to Applebees and Red Lobster with Little [...]
Shit list 2010: Worst lyric on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasty
Posted by Anupa in Rappers, Shit List 2010 on 22. Dec, 2010 | 3 Comments
Fuck lists. Everyone makes the same damn list with the same damn songs and movies and predictable-ass people on it. You can read plenty of lists right now, but there is one thing these lists won’t tell you, which is THE DAMN TRUTH. Many music/art/film critics complain of this weird agenda to promote streamlined taste, [...]
