Say hi to the bad guy: On “lazy” “Canadian” “rappers”
Posted by Anupa in Canada, Music, Toronto on 25. Feb, 2011 | 4 Comments
Even baby knows what up: Hip-hop ain’t dead. It lives in the north. Post-Drake, hip-hop in Canada just feels different. Busting through the previously impenetrable, iced out fortress surrounding the U.S. rap establishment is the one—one—thing I continually give dude props for. A.D. (after Drake), it’s like we’ve made it through years of just endless, [...]
Changes at Flow 93.5
Posted by Anupa in Canada, media, Toronto on 02. Feb, 2011 | 7 Comments
Via Mark Strong – a former FLOW 93.5 staffer, host of The Morning Show – there are some changes coming ahead to Canada’s first commercial urban format radio station. If you didn’t know, the station was bought out by CHUM last summer. Keeping that power shift in mind and in the wake of the CKLN-cancellation [...]
Word up: So, should I believe the Kanye hype?
Posted by Anupa in Favourite Interviews, media, Music, Pop Culture, Rappers, Word up on 24. Nov, 2010 | 4 Comments
Hiiii it’s meeee, the annoying person who has been talking about Kanye West’s new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy for the past two weeks since it leaked!!!I promised a lot of skeptical people (fuck you!) I would stop talking about it, though I guess this post means I didn’t (sorry!). I can’t help it! [...]
CONTEST: Win Big Boi tickets (PeaceDotLove Festival)
Posted by theashcan in Concerts, Contests on 08. Nov, 2010 | 1 Comment
One of our favourite rappers, Big Boi a.k.a Sir Luscious Left Foot, is coming to Toronto this Thursday for PeaceDOTLove Festival, supporting youth anti-violence organizations. Pretty much all of us here at The Ashcan are big Outkast fans, so we’re happy to get you on the list to see a rap legend! Local electronic purveyors [...]
Show & Tell: Rza Ft. Canadians!!!!11!
Posted by Anupa in Music, Rappers, Show & Tell on 13. Oct, 2010 | 0 Comments
Fucking with my rap cred since I’ma week late on this, but apparently The RZA (a.k.a THE Wu Don) has taken a cue from Kanye with #WuWednesday (that’s a Twitter trending topic for those of you fortunate enough to not be so intimately acquainted with hash tags). The first track he dropped is “Gone,” a [...]
