Remixed: Empire State of Mind
Posted by Anupa in Music, Pop Culture, Rappers, Toronto on 16. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
When Nas said “Represent”, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys listened Last week, Jesse blogged about Toronto rapper, Ron D., and his localized take on Jay-Z’s anthem “Empire State of Mind.” Call it copycat or creative, “Toronto Part 2″ is just one in a litany of territorial renderings of Jigga’s love ditty that I found on Youtube [...]
Show & Tell: Ron D "Toronto Part 2" or is it "Empire State of Mind part 2?"
Posted by jessekg in Music, Show & Tell, Toronto on 06. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
Ron D. showing his Canadian pride. Photo courtesy lostinthewillderness.com After hearing Jay Z’s NYC anthem, Empire State of Mind, for the thousandth time this month I finally thought, damn, why doesn’t Toronto have its own epic, sprawling anthems like this one? Now it’s obvious that, as a city, Toronto has little man complex when it [...]
Word Up: Hip-hop is old
Posted by Jef in Music, Rappers, Word up on 20. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
It’s the stuff of genres and yes, blueprints — changing vanguards, provocateur newcomers, torch passings, aged mentors and sniveling students. Cliches about the more things change, etc. Movies where wily old men defeat athletic teens with sheer know-how and decades worth of muscle memory. Honourable samurai versus heretic ninja. The good ol’ days when work [...]
Jay-Z is a slut, and collab countdown
Posted by Simon in Music on 07. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
According to a recent NME interview, Jay-Z apparently wants to work with Liam Gallagher. Says the rap superstar: “When I teamed up with Linkin Park nobody expected that to work but we made a massive success of it,” he said. “The same could happen with Liam.” Disregarding the obvious hilarity in Jay-Z’s logic, does he [...]
Listed: the 10 songs of summer
Posted by theashcan in Listed, Music, Pop Culture on 21. Sep, 2009 | 0 Comments
Today is officially the last day of summer and with autumn waiting around the corner to steal our lunch money, we at The Ashcan pooled our collective brains to pick the definitive songs of the past season. These picks aren’t ranked by preference. Rather, this is what the soundtrack to our lives would be if [...]
