For the first time in about six years, Soulo season is back in full effect. The Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) wordsmith returned in late 2022 and shook up a lot of Hip-Hop heads’ best-albums-of-the-year lists with the mid-December release of his fifth studio album, Herbert, and now he’s back on tour for the first time…
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Top 10 Most Anticipated Hip-Hop Concerts Hitting Toronto This Summer (2023)
With COVID-19 now firmly in the rear view mirror, live concerts are back in full swing, bringing plenty of ways for fans to celebrate Hip-Hop’s 50th anniversary. 2023 has already seen a ton of artists bring their concert tours to Toronto, representing the diversity and growth the genre has achieved in its 50-year history, and…
Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums of 2022
I guess it’s better late than never. While this blog is mainly focused on doing concert reviews (peep my best-of-the-year list here), it’s become a tradition for me to count down my favourite albums of the year and drop some short reviews of my top picks. While 2022 saw a ton of dope new music…
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…
Concert Review: T.D.E. – The Championship Tour in Toronto
The star power of Kendrick Lamar and his label mates at Top Dawg Entertainment continues to rise year after year. After performing at the Air Canada Centre twice last summer during his DAMN Tour, Kendrick started off 2018 by announcing The Championship Tour, with almost the entire roster signed to Top Dawg Entertainment joining him. While Kendrick…
Concert Review: Ab-Soul – The YMF Tour at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto
After quietly releasing his fourth studio album, Do What Thou Wilt (DWTW) in December of last year, Ab-Soul is back on tour and has returned to Toronto for the first time since 2014! Although the new album has done well both critically and commercially, it feels like it’s flown under the radar, sharing a release date…
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 #20 Favourite Album of 2014: Ab-Soul – These Days…
This album threw some fans off, as it sounds very different from Ab-Soul’s previous album, 2012’s Control System. Just when you thought Ab-Soul established his style, he went and switched things up on this album. There are still glimpses of his old style, with his focus on wordplay and thought-provoking lyrics, but These Days sees…
My #19 Favourite Album of 2013: Danny Brown – Old
*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #25* It’s taken me a while to become a Danny Brown fan, you could even say I’m not fully there yet. While he doesn’t necessarily have the rhymes that typically draw me in to most rap music, his style,…
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