Like most of the people I get along with, I have this fascination, or infatuation, with you. We talk about you like a pegasus, like somehow impossible, lighter than love + pared to bare simplicity. Oversized earrings and understated beauty. Few move with wave like you; there are fewer who would seriously investigate the colour of love; I think it’s twilight, the inbetween time, between dawn and sunrise or sunset and dusk, when sunlight below horizon illuminates the air: l’heure bleue.
For your birthday, we present this as a gesture of admiration and a tribute to the smoothness. Your contribution has been not just your music but the total influence, the input before and the output that’s followed. ‘Sade’ is a genre to me, and...
When you are the first name uttered by Jay-Z's recording engineer Young Guru as a new producer he rates highly, you're doing something right. Prolific 23-year-old Toronto producer/MC Rich Kidd was again the model of heatrock consistency in 2011, producing countless tracks for Canadian artists like the Get By's "Faster" and Tona's "We Do" as well as making in-demand featured appearances on tracks like SonReal's "Already There." Rich Kidd also delivered the fifth consistently strong mixtape in his free download series We On Some Rich Kidd Shit, featuring Maestro Fresh Wes, k-os and Saukrates among many others.
(Toronto, ON) Introduce yourself to Honest Music. A record label birthed from The Remix Project is now officially a part of the EMI family. Boasting a fresh, diverse roster of young artists, the label will provide music that connects not necessarily along the lines of genre, but with the hearts and minds of listeners on an instinctual level.
As a social enterprise, Honest Music acts as an extension of The Remix Project (charity # 82247 1421 RR0001), the world class charity focusing on cultural and creative incubation. The Remix Project was created in order to help level the playing field for young people from disadvantaged, marginalized and underserved communities and now Honest Music takes it one step further by providing a platform for the world class talent that is surfacing from this program. The label emerges as a ...
Shaun Boothe kept us waiting for ‘Waiting Room’, but it was well worth it. The Toronto native is becoming quite the big kahuna as he’s called in some great artists in the game right now like, Cyhi Da Prynce, Talib Kweli, Kardinal Offishall, Kim Davis, STS, Amanda Diva, and Nadia Stone – and this is just his mixtape. In June Shaun Boothe came to RapCity to premiere the music video for “Let Me Go” off this mixtape.