Dope! Over an hour of choperation with the one and only Kardinal Offishall.
For decades, Toronto hip-hop fans have understood their own sound: a hybrid of east coast boom bap and west coast melodies with an aesthetic style and cadence derived from the Caribbean. Rapper and producer Kardinal Offishall wasn’t the first from the city to come up with this but he did perfect it and, in doing so, established Canada’s inaugural contribution to hip-hop’s canon of regional sounds. Kardi’s ingenuity won him awards and the respect of his American peers and it gave aspiring musicians leverage to leap over the structural limitations of the local industry, and express themselves as defiantly Canadian — no matter where their families originate. Kardinal looks back on his career in this lecture at the 2016 Red Bull Music Academy.
The Red Bull Music Academy is a global music institution committed to fostering creativity in music. We celebrate music, its culture, and the transformative minds behind it. Begun in 1998, the Academy has taken the core principles that underlie its annual workshop for selected participants and applied this curatorial approach to events, lectures, and city-wide festivals throughout the year.
Been trying to keep up with all The Come Up Show interviews / podcasts. Here they chop it up with that dude Tona, partially in celebration of his latest release, The Ivy League. Definitely looking forward to taking this one in. Shouts to the fam! Part II on the way too…
Today’s episode is unlike any other podcast episodes that we recorded so we had to split it into two parts. Tona Tencreddi, is one third of Naturally Born Strangers and in my opinion, one of the premiere artists our country has to offer. He tells us about his upbringing in becoming the artist that he is today which includes a deep history of Toronto rap culture.
We talk about his epic rap battle against Blake Carrington in Sauga, how one of his first big hits “Dial Tone” was made, what is it like working with Drake on the remix, and so much more.
In the second episode of New Legends, we catch up with Jazz Cartier in Miami to talk influence and the pursuit of musical greatness.
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DRU’s officially back doing what he do. The new push kicks off with official viz for “Don’t Be Afraid”. Shouts to this guy man. And to the whole In Essence family.
Sauga City, Canadian native “DRU” drops the official music video for his single Don’t Be Afraid. Shot and Directed by Frenzy Fredie Hamdan and Levente Kovacs, in Vancouver Canada the R&B/Hip-hop singer & songwriter is aiming to release his new EP Chapters early in 2017. Influenced by the likes of Michael Jackson and Donny Hathaway DRU considers himself a true student of the art form and hopes to inspire others with his new forthcoming project.
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Starring: Lia Farrelly, Julien Durant, Julius ‘Jewels’ Morgan, Katja Martin. Styled by Madi Styles Makeup and Hair by Rio Di Translado
