A Toronto institution celebrates 16-years tomorrow night at Harbourfront. You should celebrate too.
Honey Jam: Then & Now is a reunion concert and photo exhibit showcasing iconic images from the past 16 years of Honey Jam, the longest-running talent showcase in Canada. Honey Jam is a multicultural developmental initiative providing networking, educational and performance opportunities for female artists in all musical genres. Honey Jam: Then & Now also pays homage to black music and its influence across all cultures around the world.
Hosted by Michie Mee, the event will feature Honey Jam alumni performing tribute songs while paying homage to inspiring black female artists. An accompanying slide show will feature iconic photos, interviews, video highlights, press clippings, flyers, ticket stubs and other memorabilia from 1995 to present. Featured artists include Jemeni, Belinda Brady, DJ Melboogie, Kellylee Evans, Kim Davis, True, Motion, Eternia, Natasha Waterman, Saidah Baba Talibah and more!
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Dope look by the Strombo Show to put on some MCs. Hopefully this is the first edition of many…
Shouts to George Strombolopolous Tonight for putting on some Canadian hip-hop last night. With a vast amount of talent to pick from, the show selected 3 of their favourite GTA based artists to appear on the show. JD Era, Luu Breeze and Peter Jackson were invited to drop a few a capella verses to find out who the best rapper in Toronto is, other than Drake. The topic was brought up by a tweet from Amir Johnson.
Special thanks to HipHopCanada contributor and fam Alex “The Can Con Don” Narvaez (@TheCanConDon) for not only producing the segment but also allowing us the exclusive footage. Let’s see more Canadian hip-hop in the mix George! Watch George Strombolopolous Tonight at 11 p.m. on CBC Monday-Friday. Follow George on Twitter @Strombo. – HHC
Audio reminder + some behind the scenes pics from Promise‘s next release off The Awakening. Pics under the hood!
After receiving well over 10,000 views in his first week Promise sets up for his 2nd official video release March 9th! Here are some pics from behind the scenes. This song is straight sex, drugs and rock n’ roll I wonder how the people gon’ react to the visuals. Promise shows himself to be a true “artist” playing the producer role alongside Andre Rehal for his short. For those who haven’t heard it yet, stream it in full here:
Never heard of dude but checked this in the inbox and thought it was pretty dope. Reason (below) for putting out the track is kinda random but whatever…”Happy anniversary! To….me!!!” Lol.
I am sending you a new track titled ‘Fire In The Sky’ from a very talented Nova Scotian artist, named Cam Smith. He is releasing this song today to celebrate one year of Rapping and Producing, since he released his first project. One year ago he released his first project ‘Downtown Lights’ which was fully prod. by himself and features Kayo and Jay Mayne, among others. His second project he released during this past year was titled ‘Start Line’ which he prod. and features Kayo and Jay Mayne, among others. This track also features Al Boogie, they both kill it!
So again, in Celebration of Cam Smith’s first year doing music, here is a track for you all.
Some strong visuals from Puzzle and Big Sproxx. Just another reminder about (i) how messed up society/history is and that (ii) the use of the N-word is still a very controversial issue for blacks and non-blacks alike. Let the conversation continue…
The SARS Network’s “Puzzle” was born January 24, 1984 in Toronto Ontario. Raised in Scarborough, Puzzle was exposed to music early in life. He first started recording songs in the late 90’s, and made his first appearance on the well recognized Toronto mix tape S.A.R.S. Since then he has been featured on every S.A.R.S. mixtape to date.
In this video, Puzzle has some matters he wants to get off his chest! Being that February is Black History Month, Puzzle felt this song would be appropriate. The reason behind this song was to shed light on the controversial word “Nigger” and how loosely the Caucasian race uses the term. Puzzle believes that if people were informed of the history and true origin of the word, and not from just hip hop itself, “people would be more cautious”.
Black people themselves throw the word around in the music. Ultimately, this takes away from the authentic power of the word by empowering the human behind it, as in “reverse psychology”.
Although most Caucasians who use the word, Nigger, do not mean any harm by it… Puzzle feels “the best thing to do is use words that you understand when communicating with certain people”
NIGGER:
a derogatory name for a Black person
a person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, a victim of prejudice similar to that suffered by blacks; a person who is economically, politically, or socially disenfranchised.
The term NIGGER is now probably the most offensive word in English
The variants neger and negar, derive from the Spanish and Portuguese word negro (black), and from the now-pejorative French nègre (nigger).
In the Colonial America of 1619, John Rolfe used negars in describing the African slaves shipped to the Virginia colony
Produced & Directed by Big Sproxx of Proletarian Music, Puzzle’s Nigga Music is very graphic in the nature to show the viewer the perspective of the word and where it came from.
Next joint off newcomer Berg Beaugé‘s Miami Dreaming tape. This one features SB#2 aka Junia-T from the mighty Smash Brovas.
Introducing Roll Call feat Junia T of Smash Brovaz aka SB#2 the fourth and final release leading into Berg’s long awaited Miami Dreaming mixtape. After a hiatus that included live performances with Toronto’s own Flow funk band, Berg is back with another banger.
Release dates have been slated for February for Miami Dreaming and the single video for “Coldest’ feat Rich Kidd.
