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There’s no way around it, being stripped of watching these Toronto Raptors has been rough. Kyle Lowry leading from the front playing at an All-NBA level, Pascal Siakam making the transition from MIP to The Guy, Fred VanVleet and Serge Ibaka making noise in a contract year, the list is truly endless. No one expected […]
Time was when the Weeknd and his XO team were literally going hungry trying to make it in the music industry. Well, things done changed. What began as an unofficial imprint through which Abel Tesfaye released his original trilogy of mixtapes in 2011 (House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence) has transmogrified into a widely […]
Sure, the world is currently living indoors thanks to COVID-19, but you can miss Houdini with all this social distancing stuff. When I phone the Toronto rapper on Tuesday, he’s out at a diner in BC, sitting down for breakfast, surrounded by friends, pandemic be damned. “Man, one thing about me, I’m not with the hype,” the […]
Serge Ibaka stood slightly crouched at the centre of the Utah Jazz logo at Vivint Smart Home Arena on Monday. His arm, bent at the elbows arched upwards, readying itself to tap the orange basketball that would soon be mid-air away from Rudy Gobert. As referee Rodney Mott sent the ball on its course, the […]
Last year, Toronto-raised filmmaker, creative and singer Mustafa The Poet (or just Mustafa for short) garnered a huge wave of attention with his poignant and potent anti-gun violence short film, Remember Me Toronto, which featured a surprise appearance from Drake. Now, Mustafa’s back to build on that very same message with his debut single “Stay Alive”. The new track, which […]
For Amaal, finding out her EP Black Dove was nominated for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year at the Junos was a vindication of following her passion. “It’s a lot of emotions, actually,” says the Toronto-based singer. “When it happened, the first thought was that I’m so excited for my family, my mum, and my dad. I can’t […]
Sylo, as his name suggests, is a bit of an anomaly for a number of reasons. The first and most obvious is that he’s an R&B artist of Asian descent, and while there’s been a few that have risen to prominence in recent years (such as fellow Canadians like anders and Manila Grey), it’s still […]
Shaquille Davis, better known as No Life Shaq, is a 26-year-old hip-hop head experiencing rock for the first time and recording his reaction on his YouTube channel, which has well over 1.5 million subscribers. He initially started with hip-hop—songs from the likes of Eminem, Meek Mill, 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes—but in October 2018 made the […]
Coming straight outta Toronto’s underground, 18-year-old LB Spiffy is a rising star and once again proving he’s one to watch with his latest music video “Not Lyin.” Just a few days after dropping the lyric video for the track (which we named one of the best Canadian songs of February), he’s gone all out in […]
Long before he was a motherfuckin’ starboy, The Weeknd and his XO camp literally had to steal food to keep their dreams alive. That was one of many nuggets revealed last Friday during In-HXOUSE Conversations, the latest in a panel series by HXOUSE, XO Records’ creative incubator. “I remember when we were coming up, we […]
