Footage from the Casey Veggies / Redway / The 6th Letter show a couple weeks back. Shouts to Redway mang. Stop sleeping. “Dedication” still in heavy ro.
Shouts to Era and to Raekwon for being great guests at the Stylus conference on Saturday. The IceH20 push continues with a nice likkle HipHopDX interview. #NoHandouts!
Exclusive: The Toronto emcee discusses his relationship with Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon and his newest mixtape featuring Mac Miller, Lex Luger and 9th Wonder.
Canadian rapper JD Era is quickly becoming a household name here in the U.S. But the Toronto emcee is no freshman to the rap game. With his last release Th1rte3n available on I-Tunes and a well-earned reputation as one of Canada’s best freestylers, the award-winning emcee is the marquee artist to represent Raekwon’s Ice H20 Records, making Era’s American debut a defining moment for Canadian Hip Hop.
Recently JD Era spoke to DXnext about healthy competition with his Wu-Tang mentor and his “No Handouts” approach to releasing six successful mixtapes.
Verbal Intercourse: “I come from a battle background, so lyrics have always been really important to me. I listened to guys like Canibus, Mos Def, [Jay-Z], Nas, and [The Notorious B.I.G.]. They all have bars so growing up I was trying to emulate that. It evolved into my own style and I just try to keep it fresh for my generation. I think that lyricism is missing in some of the new artists. I’m not focused on trying to get a number one hit right now; I’m just focused on making music I enjoy. To have someone like Raekwon who is one of the more lyrical people in Hip Hop supporting me, I have no choice but to represent that lyrical authentic Hip Hop.”
Executive Producers Talwst & Carlo “Illangelo” Montagenese
All Tracks produced and mixed by Carlo “Illangelo” Montagenese except No Stones
produced by Henderson ” The Theorist ” Nguyen & Carlo “Illangelo” Montagenese
All tracks written by Talwst except Colors Co-Written by Mike Schlosser
Mercy Co-Written by Dante Leon & Roderick Kerr
Available for download @ www.Talwst.com
Mastering Engineer Mark Santangelo
Album Artwork by Anna Karin Loureiro
Photography by Mark Peckmezian
This project would not have been possible without the support of those who truly love and ride for me #SoTall you know who you are
Take ‘A Closer Look’ as director, Andrew Stephenson follows singer/songwriter extraordinaire, Ayah for a few days and sits down with her to ask a couple questions about life & art in this docu-style video.
Directed by Andrew “ShotByDrew” Stephenson (www.shotbydrew.com).
So they’re calling this one the official 1st single off Redway’s upcoming “Live Free” release although this was originally supposed to be it. I’m thinking things changed bcuz of this.
1st official release off Redways upcoming Live Free EP titled Remember Me. The record is produced by young new comer K-Beatz. Artwork done by Tone.
Live Free is set to drop later this summer featuring production from Rich Kidd, Daniel Worthy, Beat Merchant & WondaGurl. A few suprise guests along the way.
Here’s the thing BDT is a group of young adults ranging from 18-20. They live in Montreal in the West Island. They have a mixtape coming out next week named “Stars”. We just dropped the promo video as well as the first single “Home” that teases a chopped and screwed version as well. All original music produced by Myles Guénin. Here is a link to the video and the song as well as the mixtape cover. Expect Chop”Stars” to come out after the Release of Stars. I know you like good music…hell we even put it on RapGenius to how serious we feel this! The goal is to spread our vibes to the world.You have a good ear and your going to love it.
Here we go again with the FREE ish! We have 2 pairs of tickets to give away for the Stylus Nominee party going down on Sunday. First two people to email cityonmyback@gmail.com with the answer to the following skill testing question are gonna get hoooked up:
What is 2 + 2?
Good luck!
UPDATE: Congrats to Danian from Scarborough and Ikeno from Scarborough for taking home a pair of tickets. Your math skills are not to be f*cked with. Still got one pair left!