With over a decade of bringing Hip-Hop heads together to celebrate the art of DJing, Skratch Bastid is back with his Bastid’s BBQ festival in full effect. Having expanded to multiple cities, each with their own unique festival lineup, the 2025 hometown edition in Toronto would return to The Bentway for the third year in…
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Concert Review: Onyx at Lee’s Palace in Toronto (2025.02.13)
Picking up right where they left off at the end of 2024, Roadman Productions put together another epic night celebrating classic Hip-Hop to kick of 2025. On a snowy February night in Toronto, Hip-Hop heads would pack Lee’s Palace to see two iconic groups from the ’90s era: New Jersey’s own Lords Of The Underground…
Concert Review: Your Old Droog at Adelaide Hall in Toronto (2024.09.28)
A decade deep into his career, Your Old Droog is continuing to build up his reputation and has embarked on his biggest headlining tour yet, hitting 10 cities across the USA & Canada in support of his latest album, Movie. The Brooklyn-based emcee has been somewhat reclusive throughout his career, staying in the studio and…
Concert Review: Alchemist & More at Bastid’s BBQ in Toronto (2024.07.27)
For the second year in a row, DJ Skratch Bastid has brought his annual Bastid’s BBQ festival to The Bentway in Toronto. Having continuously expanded the festival each year for more than a decade, now becoming its own international concert tour, the hometown Toronto edition on its own has now become a two-day event taking…
Concert Review: The Pharcyde at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto (2023.10.05)
As we continue to celebrate Hip-Hop’s 50th anniversary throughout 2023, the next major act to bring their tour through Toronto would be a group of west-coast legends, The Pharcyde. The Los Angeles-based group originally consisting of emcees Slimkid3, Fat Lip, Imani and Bootie Brown has undergone several changes over the years, with different members leaving…
Concert + Chessboxing Review: GZA at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto (2023.03.17)
Back in 2020, The GZA (a.k.a. The Genius) of the Wu-Tang Clan had embarked on the 25th Anniversary Tour for his classic 1995 solo album, Liquid Swords. While the tour started off well and he put on one of the sharpest performances Toronto has ever seen from him that January at The Phoenix Concert Theatre,…
Concert Review: GZA at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto (2020.01.27)
Fresh off of the Wu-Tang Clan’s extravagant celebration for their 25th anniversary, including a massive world tour that had two stops in Toronto, the documentary series Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics And Men, and season one of the live-action TV drama Wu-Tang: An American Saga, it’s time we start celebrating the 25th anniversaries of those classic…
The Top 5 Rap Concerts In The GTA To Look Forward To This Summer (+ FREE Giveaway!)
July was a fun time in Toronto, as we covered concerts by ¡Mayday!, Naughty by Nature, GZA, Kanye West, and Kendrick Lamar (among others). While some may not like the summer heat, many are looking for ways to enjoy themselves before the winter comes and forces us to all bundle up. I’ve put together a top…
Concert Review: Ghostface Killah, GZA & Cappadonna at The Opera House in Toronto
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: 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…
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