Been keeping an eye out for the young MC Krash since seeing the video for “Orange” a couple years back. Looks like she’s got a new push in the works and here’s the first taste. Don’t think I’ve ever heard a rapper say that they’re going to give their money to the homeless before so shouts to her!
Bankrupt For Quality EP Listen on SoundCloud www.soundcloud.com/krashiie Download on Bandcamp
Written by Krash Produced by Billy Ivan Engineered by WonLife Music Group Directed by Captured Photography and Film
Catching up with the youngin’ Maurice Moore via his Stxries viral video series. Get to know the kid!
In this episode Moore exposes his audience to his contagious personality, which has helped him gain international notoriety as an artist to watch. ‘MM’ is seen travelling the streets of LA with his team, interacting with fans after a show downtown and working at Paramount Studios with T-Town from Germany (Chris Brown/R.Kelly- Drown In It). While at Paramount Studios, Maurice also collaborated with writers Rook Monroe (Natalie La Rose/Jeremih – Somebody), Joelle James (CBE/Interscope) and August Grant (Wale – New Phone). Stxries Vol. ll gave us glimpses of upcoming music, which sounds like a promising end to 2015 for the Canadian talent.
Ty Harper | Music,Video | Thursday, November 26th, 2015
Toronto’s Ian Kamau is a musician, a poet and an artist; “the goal of art, I believe…” he tells us in this episode of Exclaim! TV Sweet 16s, “…is to communicate with other people.”
Kamau certainly practices what he preaches, using hip-hop to connect with others, whether he is learning from his cousin’s musical methods or sending samples to his grandmother in Trinidad. He also collaborates with fellow artists like Shad, k-os and, most recently, Montreal producer/emcee Jai Nitai Lotus. We asked Kamau to share his art with us, too, and he obliged by performing his favourite 16 bars for our cameras.
Co-Directed: Yeah Films/ StayOutLate Arts & Entertainment Film/ Edit: Miguel Barbosa/ Ryan C. Glover Director: Miguel Barbosa Production Company: Yeah Films Produced by: StayOutLate Arts & Entertainment
Posted up this track months ago but totally missed the video. So did you apparently as it only has 1400 views. Sure, video quality ain’t great but this girl is literally the dopest out of the city right now. So much potential to do huge things! Island In My Mind is such a tight and cohesive album. It’s totally rare in relation to today’s musical climate let alone Toronto specifically. Like, it’s really good, lol! Take her in. There’s more goodies on her SoundCloud too.
To find out that she’s at a point where she’s struggling to create due to financial difficulties is HEART-BREAKING. Please support via her new GoFundMe campaign. I totally support financially helping peoples’ families once they pass away or helping someone who is taking care of a sick relative but here is a chance to help someone who is f*cking dope and amazing while they are still alive.
Moving aimlessly through the city, trying to find meaning in my life and the things that occur within it. Having moments of discouragement, loss of faith & trouble making it through at times, “Better Life” seeks to find the truth behind who I was meant to be.
Toronto based MC/Producer, Xolisa (pronounced Koh-Lee-Sah) releases the music video for her newly released single, “The Fallen” which stands as the first single (and music video) off of her upcoming 2016 LP release entitled, “And Gaps Do Lead To Bridges”.
Directed by Xolisa, co-directed and filmed by Asantefilm, “The Fallen” stands as the emcee’s 6th music video to date and what viewers will quickly come to realize moments after pressing play, is that Xolisa has chosen to offer a different side to the vulnerability and intimacy that we’ve come to familiarize ourselves with her videos. In this visual, Xolisa can’t be found delivering a solo performance head-onto the lens – spitting her unorthodox yet familiar flow. What we see instead, is a Xolisa who steps back from the forefront to allow the nostalgic boom bap of her production and her fluid delivery narrate a story told visually by the video’s main character (Jemelle Williams, founder of Xolisa’s management team Urban Evolution Enterprise) who plays a young widower facing the burial day of his late wife, as he carries around with him the memory of her essence.
Xolisa explains, “The Fallen is a song that focuses on the bond between two individuals who had the plans of living a full life together, conquering the world together – going full throttle in making something of themselves. With this music video, I wanted to continue to tell that story by giving a more defined and intimate look at that bond and who the individuals of that bond are, or could be. For decades spanning back, we’ve had loved ones stripped from our lives due to war, violence, disease, accidents, age…loved ones who each have lived their own specific legacy. Depicting decades of past loss can look like so many different things on screen however, I chose to zero in on the companionship between a man and a woman and their dynamics as a couple. I chose to focus on the reality that we are all experiencing our own personal “hell”. I chose to explore the question of “what I would be leaving behind in my music, in my love and in my relationships, once I’ve served my time here on this earth?”. I chose to show just one man’s mental, spiritual, physical and emotional sorting process as he goes through just one day of what will be many days of accepting, healing and moving forward from the loss of his fallen companion, best friend and love. The thing is, this is just one man’s experience…we still have a world of hurting hearts surrounding us.”
