I don’t know much about the internal politics of how Caribana worked / works so this is all new to me. Interesting look by Incite Films behind the scenes of one of the city’s biggest festivals and most culturally important events.

Incite Films takes a rare look at what actually happened to CARIBANA™.

Visuals and more info (below) on the Toronto installment of this year’s UNITY Festival.

UNITY FESTIVAL 2013
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Day 1 Thursday July 18: The Mod Club, 277 College Street, Toronto
Free Your Sound: 2vs2 Beatboxing Battle in Partnership with BeatboxCan. To enter the 2vs2 battle, you will need to submit a video. Details to be posted shortly.

Day 2 Friday July 19: The Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne Street
Free Your Style: Breakdancing and All Styles in Partnership with IBE. Want to qualify? Then attend this year’s pre-qualifiers at the AGO on Friday July 5th at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Details will be posted shortly.

Day 3 Saturday July 20: Yonge-Dundas Square
UNITY Concert at Yonge-Dundas Square. A full day of performances from youth, artists, headliners, breakdancing battles, live graffiti, and much more! Auditions are completed! Thank you for everyone that auditioned this year! Announcements of the youth performers will be made shortly.

Day 4 Sunday July 21: Daniels Spectrum Theatre 585 Dundas Street East.
Free Your Voice: Lyricist Battle and Showcase. If you are an MC or a spoken word artists between the ages of 13-19, audition to be part of Unity’s “Free YourVoice — All-Styles Lyricists” event taking place on July 21st, 2013. This is your chance to be a part of Toronto’s largest urban arts youth festival and share your voice and your words with the Toronto MC/Spoken word/Hip Hop community. Auditions taking place: Sunday June 2nd from 10AM-3PM at Don Montgomery Community Centre, 2467 Eglinton Avenue East. Please email: uniffectcoordinator@unitycharity.com to reserve an audition slot.

Some new Notes for that azz.

www.notestoself.net
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Notes to Self – Popular Music (Official Video)
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Course of Study
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The CNE is our Disney Land, our Universal Studios. Food pavilions where you can eat Poutine and Shish Taouk in one-sitting, washed down with an ice cream waffle sandwich or mini sugar donuts ala Tiny Toms. Ride the rickety ass wooden roller-coaster: ‘The Flyer,’ the lightning fast car: ‘The Polar Bear Express,’ the spinning cages they call ‘The Zipper’ and swinging gondola’s on a massive Ferris Wheel lit by the park. All run by old Dudes who have built and rebuilt these steel-traps for 101 years. The same ones who hire young locals to take money from the kids who want to get high and ride. Ben & Bronze have been going to The Ex for years with their families & friends, Notes to Self even performed Yellow & Grey and Worst Comes to Worst on-stage at the CNE with their Big Brothers, Dilated Peoples in 2009 — so its location always had “potential music video” written all over it, especially for Notes as their love of all things nostalgic is nothing less than whole-hearted. Nothing screams classic fair grounds quite like The Canadian National Exhibition.

Ever since Notes to Self’s video for “Nobody” dropped, creative types have been reaching out to the Toronto outfit to collaborate — none more talented than their Homie, Brother, Animator & Co-Director, Russ Murphy aka RUFFMERCY from Britain. In his own right, RUFFMERCY has time and time again brought life to some of your favourite, soon-to-be-classic rap videos. Notes bonded with Russ for the last year and half over their painstaking attention to detail(s) – a trait Russ shares in his animations. Co-Directors Bronze and Ben thought it would be a good idea to involve Russ in this spectacle of carnie games and stuffed animals — a place perfect to express the popular culture the 3 had grown up on in their formative years developing their visual eyes, that they had clearly bonded over — a place to express the groups childhood memories of Kelly Kapowski, Street Fighter and Lou Diamond Phillips; a time when Jimmy Key was King of the Mound.

What you see in this video is an evening of sheer fun. Watch Dopey whistle down some single ladies walking the fairway, Roshin shoot targets with ease, Bronze whack-a-mole and Swamp win a stuffed animal shooting hoops. The directorial debut of the RUFFNOTES collaboration of Bronze, Ben and Russ, bottles an exciting moment in time but reflects on good times passed, icons of their generation and the popular culture they all were influenced by, in no particular order.
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Artist: Notes to Self
Song: Popular Music
Produced by BOOK & BRONZE for Heart on Sleeve (Notes to Self’s own Bronze One & Book of Beatface)
Raps by Roshin, Swamp Donkey & Bronze One (all of NTS)
Cuts by DJ Dopey (of NTS)

Directed by RUFFNOTES

Previous: NEW VIDEO: NOTES TO SELF “RECOIL [CRIMSON]” (DIRECTED BY BENJAMIN YOUNG HART)

New episode!

http://www.onpointbasketball.com
“The Next Wave” follows the next crop of elite level basketball talent coming out of Canada. We delve into the sacrifice and dedication shared by all of the athletes as a record number of Canadians are playing NCAA Division I basketball and making the NBA. We capture the excitement sweeping the country and follow the Canadian Junior Men’s National Team as they gear up to compete in the FIBA World Championships in Prague.
This episode features Tyler Ennis, Xavier Rathan-Mayes, Trey Lyles, and Duane Notice. Other appearances by Chris Egi, Agunwa Okolie, Denzell Taylor, Kaza Keane, Marko Pirovic, MiKyle McIntosh, Manroop Clair, Joe De Ciman and Head Coach Roy Rana.

Produced by Drew Ebanks & Jay irving
Filmed, Edited, & Directed by Jay Irving
Music by Blaaow – soundcloud.com/blaaow
Graphic Designer – Mark Sylvain
Additional Interviews by Anish Bhalla

Previously: NEW VIDEO: On Point w/ Drew Ebanks “Jordan Brand Classic Brooklyn Ballin’ (Part 2)” (Episode 10)

Come-up R&B singer Cuban drops official viz for “Usher in 98”.

Cuban – Usher In 98 
Directed By P.Harris
Produced By Twin

DOWNLOAD MP3 – https://soundcloud.com/cubansings/ush…

http://www.SongsByCuban.com
http://www.Twitter.com/CubanSings

Contact – psychwardcreativegroup@gmail.com
Psych Ward Creative Group Inc.

Previous: VIDEO: CUBAN – STUDIO MOMENTS PT. II (INDIA ARIE – READY FOR LOVE)

Directed by  Glenn Michael.

New G Milla visuals off his “Downtown” EP.

Previously: NEW VIDEO: G Milla “I’m High (Purple)” (Directed by Zac Facts)

The first two accompanying visuals for “We Live It” (Produced by Freddie Joachim) and “V I B E $” (Produced by Lord Dawn) off The Foreigners’ “Apex” mixtape.

Hit the jump for the “V I B E $” visuals!

Previously: NEW MIXTAPE: The Foreigners “Apex”

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After dropping a string of MP3s online (including this banger) JHYVE releases official visuals for “To The Sky”.

“Every time we climb, we get closer to the sky.”

jhyve.com

Canadian RnB singer/songwriter/producer JHYVE is pleased to release his brand new video based on a powerful new song titled “To The Sky”.

 

The song captures JHYVE trying to conquer the adversities that come with love. Knowing that true love can survive anything, he sings:

 

Girl we’ve fallen hard a million times before

And we’ve shed these tears a million times or more

And I’ve seen a million girls from a million different worlds

But the love you give can never be restored

baby you, you, and me were meant to be together

Cry together, In the rain girl, one umbrella

Girl we fall, but everytime we climb

We get closer to the sky 

Previous: NEW MUSIC: JHYVE “COME BACK DOWN”

Visuals for the title track of The Weeknd’s upcoming major label album debut.

www.theweeknd.com

Previously: NEW VIDEO: Juicy J feat. The Weeknd “One Of Those Nights” (Directed by Sam Pilling)

BLKNXPRSS puts together some simple, yet effective, visuals for Tre Mission’s dope, self-produced soundscape off his “Malmaison” full length.

I’d actually check for a full instrumental album just on the strength of this one.

www.tremission.com
www.twitter.com/tremission
www.facebook.com/tremissionofficial
www.youtube.com/nosuchthingnst

Previously: NEW ALBUM: Tre Mission “Malmaison”

Previously: NEW VIDEO: TFHOUSE feat. Tre Mission “Hundred Thousand Birds” (Directed by Glenn Michael)

Previously: NEW VIDEO: Tre Mission “Runnup” (Prod. Tre Mission)

Previously: NEW MUSIC: Tre Mission “Hank Hill” (Prod. Bless Beats)