Unless this is literally your first time on the hill and you’ve ended up here by accident (perhaps looking for this popular classic from yesteryear), I’m going to assume you’re a Canadian music enthusiast, and the mere mention of a collaborative EP from Shad and Skratch Bastid will have you leaving this post behind in(…)
Here’s the deal. If you write a very catchy rap song, name it after a delicious french sandwich, film a video for it here in Halifax that is like a somewhat less mustachioed version of Sabotage, I’ll post said video on the hill no questions asked. That’s what we have right here, the new video(…)
The email bio/blurb for DL Incognito’s latest album, Someday is Less Than a Second Away contains the assertion that “some are saying that DL Incognito is one of the best MCs Canada has ever produced”. I agree, in fact, I’m one of the folks who’s been saying it for a while now. So while the(…)
I’m posting on the new, self-titled record from Halifax hip hop outfit The Caravan under the Friday Fun banner because moreso than most current albums, hip hop or otherwise, this is an incredibly fun listen. It is also much more than that, but in these extremely misanthropic hip hop times, if you offer me a(…)
In the immortal words of Charles Montgomery Burns: “I know what I hate. And…I don’t hate this”. Not exactly sure why, but I felt like openning the post via that quote. I think it’s because 95% of the hip hop-related submissions we’re getting right now make me feel like ol’ Monty Burns: 1000 years old(…)
Who here remembers remix albums!?!? Hands up if you own the The Cactus Revisited on cassette! Just me? Very good then. Point being, the remix album has been around for ages, but the merits & quality of such albums could be questioned in the early days. In the last 10 years of so, remix albums(…)
I actually started this post by writing something along the lines of “we don’t just blindly post anything Shad puts out”, but had to start over once I realized that is pretty much exactly what we do. Oh well, I’m pretty sure that if you’re even remotely familiar with Shad’s canon, you’ll hardly blame us.(…)
Last week when I was bellyaching about not having any time to post on the hill (first world problems, etc), I mentioned that there were albums I’d been meaning to post on for a while, and Modern Day Riot from The Antiheroes was certainly one of the ones I was referring to. I’ve tried to(…)
We can do better. When it comes to the state of modern hip hop, I think you’d find more people who believe such a statement to be true, versus the opposite viewpoint. So we can do better, but do we really want to? When it comes right down to it, it’s the ignorant, guns+money+swag+drugs+misogyny rap(…)
Time, we have none of it! As an addendum to the Ack’s post from the other day I’m putting up this drive-by of a post to extoll the virtues of Vancouver duo Pigeon Hole and their latest record Chimp Blood. Like everyone else, my workload is ever-increasing and on the homefront we’re continuing our quest(…)
