Canadian hip hop
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Chase & Status interview...Atlantic are now coming thick and fast. The pair are now slated to co-produce rising Roc Nation diva Rita Ora and hot Canadian hip hop artist Drake. However, despite all the US attention, they're keen to retain their original fanbase, who... In this article: Chase & Status, Rihanna, Jay Brown, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, UK, and Dubstep |
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Rascalz
...hip-hop group from Vancouver, British Columbia, who played a crucial role in the artistic and commercial development of Canadian hip hop. The group consists of MCs Red1 and Misfit, and DJ Kemo. Breakdancers, Zebroc and Dedos were also part...
In this article: Rascalz, Juno Awards, Global Warning, Cash Crop, Northern Touch, Choclair, Thrust, Checkmate, and Kardinal Offishall
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Canadian hip hop
...with the Northern Touch However, 1998 proved to be a transformative year in the development of Canadian hip hop. The Vancouver hip hop band Rascalz quite unexpectedly found themselves at the centre of a sequence of events which gave Canadian...
In this article: Canada, Toronto, Kardinal Offishall, Dream Warriors, R&B, Quebec, and Michie Mee
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Maestro (rapper)
Maestro is the stage name of Wesley Williams, a Canadian hip hop artist and actor. His pioneering status and outstanding achievements have led to him being referred to as the "Godfather of Canadian hip hop". Originally known as Melody MC, he...
In this article: Maestro, Lawrence Gowan, Let Your Backbone Slide, Canadian Urban Music Awards, Canada, Kardinal Offishall, The Dope Poet Society, and National Film Board of Canada
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CFXJ-FM
...services were widely believed to be racist in nature. The lack of an urban station also created immense difficulties for Canadian hip hop , reggae and R&B musicians, who had no radio outlets in Canada to play and promote their music. The...
In this article: Cfxj-fm, R&B, Toronto, CBLA, Canada, and WBLK
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Northern Touch
"Northern Touch" is a Canadian hip hop single, which was released in 1998 by Rascalz in collaboration with Checkmate , Kardinal Offishall, Thrust and Choclair. It is one of the most important individual songs in the history of Canadian hip...
In this article: Northern Touch, Rascalz, Cash Crop, B.T. Express, Juno Award, Thrust, Checkmate, and Get at Me Dog
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Canadian music genres
...artists simply couldn't get their records into stores or played on the radio. As a result, through much of the 1990s, Canadian hip hop experienced a slowdown without any significant artists bursting into the scene. However, beginning in...
In this article: Canada, Toronto, Skinny Puppy, Canadian music, MuchMusic, Vancouver, and Rush
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Choclair
Kareem Blake, better known by his stage name Choclair, is a Canadian rapper . He helped develop Canadian hip hop in the 1990s, as a member of the Circle. Blake, of Jamaican descent, was born in Scarborough, Ontario, in east Toronto.
In this article: Choclair, Ice Cold, Let's Ride, Kardinal Offishall, Toronto, MuchMusic, MuchMusic Video Award, Juno Awards, and Northern Touch
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Chicago Sun-Times | June 18, 2009
Birthday girl
...added to perform at the hot Jay-Z and Ciara concert at the Charter One Pavilion July 7. IS R&B STAR RIHANNA now dating Canadian hip hop artist Aubrey "Drake" Graham? Well, according to the Hollyscoop folks, Rihanna, who allegedly was...
In this article: Rihanna, Chris Brown, Oprah Winfrey, Drake, Sun-Times, Chicago, and Channel 7
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IGN Music | May 20, 2009
Method Man & Redman - Blackout! 2 Review
...commercial and critical success, as well as a reputation as the Cheech & Chong of hip hop. The first single; "A-Yo," featuring Toronto hip hop artist, Saukrates; is typical feel-good baller braggadocio with a bouncing beat and funky...
In this article: Blackout!, Method Man & Redman, Method Man, Redman, Toronto hip hop, SQL, MySQL, Saukrates, Oracle, and Wu-Tang Clan
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NBC | May 19, 2009
A Hot Mess at the House of Blues
...celebs were in the house, including several Chicago Bears occupying the box seats. They were all there to see Drake -- a Canadian hip hop artist who doesn't have an album, much less a single, but has created a ton of underground buzz due to...
In this article: Drake, House of Blues, Lil Wayne, Lupe Fiasco, Chicago, Youtube video, and Chicago Bears
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The Canadian hip hop scene was first established in the 1980s. Through a variety of factors, however, it developed much more slowly than Canada's popular rock music scene, and did not reach its full commercial potential until the early 2000s.
Although Canada had hip hop artists right from the early days of the scene, the infrastructure simply wasn't there to get their music to the record-buying public. Even Toronto Canada's largest city and one of its most multicultural had difficulty getting an urban music station on the radio airwaves until 2000. As a result, if a Canadian hip-hop artist could get signed, it was very difficult for them to get exposure — even if their music videos were played on MuchMusic, many artists simply couldn't get their records into stores or played on the radio. However, a sequence of significant events in the latter half of the 1990s finally brought hip hop fully into the mainstream of Canadian music.
Besides Toronto, there are other hip-hop scenes in Canadian cities such as Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary, and many more.
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