It’s that time of year again: ‘Bana, OVO Fest, WOSRKS…
Full tracklist jpeg after the jump!
Keeping as busy as ever, Toronto’s own Rich Kidd comes through with his annual compilation We On Some Rich Kidd Shit Vol. 7: The People’s Champ. Last week, he dropped “It’s Real Like That” featuring North Carolina spitter Deniro Farrar through Mass Appeal then landed “When It Go Down” via Hypetrak – a breezy summer anthem featuring co-production from Notorious crate-digger Frank Dukes (Ghostface Killah, Danny Brown, BADBADNOTGOOD, Tree). Now, here’s the full thing with notable guest appearances from Casey Veggies, Chase N Cashe, Torae, K-os, and Son Real among others. The People’s Champ is the 7th installment in the We On Some Rich Kidd Shit mixtape series which features Rich’s favorite songs from artists all over the globe on his production.
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Premiere: We On Some Rich Kidd Shit Vol. 7: The People’s Champ via Earmilk
Rich Kidd – It’s Real Like That featuring Deniro Farrar
Rich Kidd – When It Go Down (produced by Rich Kidd and Frank Dukes)
The release party goes down tonight @ The Great Hall (1087 Queen St. W) with a live performance from the man himself supported by deejays Wrispect, Nana, Mensa, and Meka from 2DBz! + Lancelot and Lowkey from YHTK!
Ty Harper | Music,Video | Saturday, August 24th, 2013
Noisey’s profile on Richie had me going from dope to lol to oh shit! in like 5 minutes, wow..
Toronto’s very own Rich Kidd—a rapper/producer whose career has been bubbling since working with Comeback Season era Drake—hasn’t had the healthiest few weeks. That’s because he broke his ankle while we were hanging out with him at the Caribana parade (and, for better for worse, the whole incident is captured in our short doc that’s embedded above).
If you don’t know what Caribana is, then you’re probably not Canadian, and that’s ok! Caribana is said to be North America’s largest street festival, and it’s not hard to get that feeling once you’re actually there. The parade has a ton of pretty girls in Caribbean feather dresses being chased around by thirsty dudes, cops operating police surveillance cameras, decent street food, a tragic history of gun violence, and a ton of crazy floats. Oh, and the Soca music is so loud we had to subtitle most of this footage.
Anyway, outside of the parade, we were hanging out with Rich while he was recording with Jay-Z’s right-hand-man Young Guru (Rich is next to blow, in our humble opinion) and we also visited The Remix Project—an amazingly important community center for kids who want to make an album, a film, or get into business.
So, watch and learn about this cool young man before he gets too famous to hang out at intensely overcrowded parades and hopefully the next time we take an artist out to a parade nothing bad happens.
Volume six in his “We On Some Rich Kidd Sh*t” series (coincidentally subtitled “City on my back”) gets a release party with a live performance from the man himself supported by a nice deejay/special guest lineup too!
This year you get Wrispect, Nana, Mensa, and Meka from 2DBz! + Lancelot and Lowkey from YHTK!
We all know the type of energy Rich Kidd brings to a stage so needless to say this is a must attend.
