cadence-weapon
Just before announcing the 2023 Juno Award for Rap Album/EP of the Year, rappers Haviah Mighty and Kardinal Offishall took the stage to pay homage to the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Offishall, sporting a De La Soul jacket, began with a shout-out to DJ Kool Herc, whose infamous party back in the Bronx back in 1973 […]
Cadence Weapon couldn’t help but chuckle at the DMs he was receiving about his viral police-and-protesters-themed tweet. On Jan. 31—as a convoy of anti-COVID mandate truckers congested traffic and commerce outside Canadian parliament in Ottawa—the rapper posted: Most commenters were positive, but some sent Cadence defensive private Twitter messages decrying accusations of white privilege. He […]
Lockdown after lockdown, the Internet continued to remind us that the plague brought Europe out of the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. Whether or not that turned out to be an applicable adage nearly 700 years later, it made sense that the imposed isolation and unprecedentedly clear Google Cals would have some creative payoff. […]
Cadence Weapon has won the 2021 Polaris Music Prize for his album Parallel World. The award is presented annually to the best Canadian album, based on artistic merit as decided by a jury of music journalists and broadcasters. 2020 Polaris winner Backxwash announced Weapon’s victory via a virtual ceremony. “I can’t believe this is happening, this feels amazing,” the MC, […]
On top of getting props from Chuck D in Dublin (more on that in a minute), Cadence Weapon also wants to carry on the legacy of Public Enemy, Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Clash, and other power-fighting artists, making himself a rarity in this flashy TikTok age. He explores facial recognition’s hidden evils over the chirping […]
America may have Method Man, Redman, and (…ahem) Afroman. But Canada is no slouch when it comes to MCs waxing poetic about puffing lye. Our famous B.C. bud has helped fuel some underground, criminally underrated rappers who add poignancy and nuance to their smoke odes. On the other end of the spectrum (a few time […]
Cadence Weapon skrr skrrs to a beat by Montreal producer and frequent collaborator Jacques Greene on “SENNA,” the lead single for his forthcoming album Parallel World out April 30. Or, as his faster-than-F1 spitting goes on the new single: “Hydroplane when I slide on the rhythm.” The subject of one of his favorite documentaries, F1 driver […]
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