We started 2015 off with Ghostface Killah and BadBadNotGood at The Opera House, and just as he told the crowd at that show, we’re right back here again to start the second quarter of the year with Ghostface at the same venue. Rather than bringing his Sour Soul collaborators BBNG, Ghost has brought some Wu-Tang Clan…
Concert Review: Shad at Massey Hall in Toronto
Arguably Canada’s best MC, Shad is back with another big-time event: a concert at the revered Massey Hall to celebrate 10 years of being a professional artist. Shad has come a long way; using the winnings from a talent competition to record his debut album When This Is Over in 2005, winning a Juno Award…
Concert Review: Logic at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto
Logic is a newer Hip-Hop artist from Maryland, USA, who is on his Under Pressure World Tour to support his major-label debut album of the same name. I have reviewed Under Pressure before, and while it did have its flaws, Logic shows enough upside and potential as an MC to spark my interest. He also…
Concert Review: PRhyme (Royce Da 5’9″ & DJ Premier) at Tattoo in Toronto
After forming a group and releasing one of the best Hip-Hop albums of 2014 just a couple months ago, Royce Da 5’9″ and DJ Premier have gone on tour together to promote their PRhyme album. While this is their first album working together as PRhyme, Royce and Premo are both legends in this genre, each having been…
Tag-Team Album Review: OtherWise Known – After Hours
Last year I got Great Mathias from The Mathias Doctrine (renamed Spinesthesia) and Wayne Maye from Wayne’s Hip Hop Blog to do a joint review of Nova Major’s mixtape Whatever It…[TAKES]. This time, Nova (now going by Otto Major)’s group OtherWise Known has released their debut album, After Hours. While Wayne couldn’t make it this time, I brought back…
Concert Review: Talib Kweli at Rockpile West in Toronto
About a year and a half since his last show in Toronto, Talib Kweli has returned, this time for a small-venue concert at Rockpile West. This would be my fourth time seeing Talib Kweli perform, and each time has been slightly different. I first saw him at my very first rap concert, the 2009 Rock…
Concert Review: BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah at The Opera House in Toronto
Don’t you just love it when something great happens that you didn’t plan for, and it fits perfectly with everything else going on in your life? That’s exactly what happened here, as this isn’t even one of the four shows I said I had planned in my previous blog post, but it came together at…
The Top 10 Concerts I Attended in 2014
I’d like to thank everyone who’s supported this blog and anyone who has ever read any of my articles! This is the first full calendar year I’ve had SYpherSights running, so this time I have concert reviews written for every show on the list. While I couldn’t attend every single hip-hop show in the city,…
The Countdown (In Review): My Top 20 Favourite Albums of 2014
Happy Holidays to all! For those who couldn’t keep up with the daily countdown, I have all of the entries listed below. Click on the albums to read the reviews! Also look out for my Top Concerts of the Year list dropping on New Years Eve! Honourable Mentions #20 Ab-Soul – These Days… (B-) #19 Joell…
My #1 Favourite Album of 2014: Run The Jewels (Killer Mike & El-P) – Run The Jewels 2
*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* Much like the cover art suggests, Killer Mike & El-P just stole the spotlight when they dropped the sequel to their very successful Run The Jewels album. Everything was awesome…
My #2 Favourite Album of 2014: PRhyme (DJ Premier & Royce Da 5’9″) – PRhyme
*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* Those who checked out my PRhyme review on CulturedVultures.com knew this was coming. DJ Premier is considered by most to be an all-time hip-hop legend, and Royce Da 5’9″ is…
My #3 Favourite Album of 2014: ¡Mayday! & Murs – ¡MursDay!
*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* This album came out of nowhere and rocked my summer. Sometime in the first or second quarter of the year it was announced that underground hip-hop veteran Murs had signed…
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