New Year’s Eve 2020 going into 2021 is the day fans around the world heard that MF DOOM had passed away. Some fans may have met the news with skepticism, as it felt exactly like the type of prank Hip-Hop’s supervillain would pull off. He allegedly passed away on Halloween, the holiday that celebrates fear,…
Category: Artist Profiles
Revisiting Run The Jewels’ Discography (1997-2020)
Each of the four RTJ albums are classics in their own way, but RTJ4 captures the right amount of rage and criticism called for in 2020, and delivers it in a time when society both needs and wants to hear it.
Top 30 Hip-Hop Artists of the Decade: #10-1
As we now enter the 2020s, a lot of Hip-Hop fanatics are of course discussing who the best rappers of the 2010s were. It’s a tough task to narrow down a list to a Top 30, but here’s one of many attempts to do it. The 2010s was a challenging decade, as many artists who…
Top 30 Hip-Hop Artists of the Decade: #20-11
As we now enter the 2020s, a lot of Hip-Hop fanatics are of course discussing who the best rappers of the 2010s were. It’s a tough task to narrow down a list to a Top 30, but here’s one of many attempts to do it. The 2010s was a challenging decade, as many artists who…
Top 30 Hip-Hop Artists of the Decade: #30-21
As we now enter the 2020s, a lot of Hip-Hop fanatics are of course discussing who the best rappers of the 2010s were. It’s a tough task to narrow down a list to a Top 30, but here’s one of many attempts to do it. The 2010s was a challenging decade, as many artists who…
Artist Profile + Album Review: 50 Cent – Animal Ambition
“Damn, homie, in high school you was the man, homie…. The f*** happened to you??” –Wanksta That quote pretty much sums up how I’ve felt about 50 Cent. I’ve gone from thinking he was the coolest rapper when I was twelve years old, to the lamest rapper when I was around seventeen, and now I…
Artist Profile + Album Review: Army of the Pharaohs – In Death Reborn
Tomorrow is the official release date for Army of the Pharaohs’ fourth album, In Death Reborn. They have been dominating the underground hip-hop scene for over a decade and seem to grow their fan base with every release. I first got into them in 2007 when a friend showed me their newest album at the…
Artist Profile + Album Review: Talib Kweli – Gravitas
Talib Kweli is an emcee’s emcee. Last month he put out an independent album, Gravitas, his 9th album overall, which is available now in digital format and will become available in CD and vinyl in February only on his website http://kweliclub.com/. I was unable to include this album in my Top 30 Favourite Albums of…
Artist Profile + Album Review: Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Tomorrow is the official release date for Eminem’s 8th solo album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2. The album leaked last week (minus the bonus tracks) and I’ve been able to live with it for a bit and form an opinion, but first let me take you through Eminem’s career and how I’ve followed it over…
Artist Profile + Album Review: Shad – Flying Colours
Today is the official release date for Shad’s fourth album, Flying Colours. While I will definitely be writing about this album in December during my Top 30 Favourite Albums of the Year Countdown, I feel compelled to do the whole Artist Profile and review now because, in my opinion, Shad is the illest Canadian hip-hop…
Artist Profile + Album Review: Drake – Nothing Was The Same
I can’t say I’m a big Drake fan. He’s done some great things economically for Canadian hip hop and is the biggest name to come from Toronto, so I always give his albums a listen and really try to like them, but I just haven’t been able to get into his music like that. I…
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