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Fifteen years is a long time in the regular world. But in the sneaker world, 15 years feels like an eternity. Trends change, brands come and go, new sneakers become hype, old sneakers become irrelevant. If you took a snapshot of this industry all the way back in 2006, it would look very different than […]
“I’m a completely different person than I was 3 years ago,” KILLY recently tweeted. Which is fair. A few years ago, Khalil Tatem was a 19-year-old kid from Scarborough who, thanks to the freak overnight success of his entrancing first single, “Killamonjaro,” found himself swept into the trap star-industrial complex. Dude uploaded a track on […]
The ASICS Gel-Lyte 3 entered the world in 1990, but its time in the sun came two decades later. The sneaker, best known for its split-tongue design, gained a steady momentum of hype and overall interest after Dutch sneaker store Patta’s collaboration on the model in 2007 that would be followed up with projects from […]
It’s been about 36 years since members of the Black Music Association, Black music professionals, and allies stood outside of the Juno Awards show lobbying for the inclusion of Black music categories. The Black Music Association formed in 1984 and advocated for international recognition for African-Canadian music. Today, the Junos are celebrating Black music to an extent that’s never […]
London Cyr may only be 22, but the Vancouver-born producer already has a pretty stacked discography. Of the artists he’s worked with, Lil Baby, KILLY, Shy Glizzy, and Travis Scott are only a few of the names in his musical orbit. After going multi-platinum and scoring a Grammy nomination for his work on Scott’s Astroworld […]
It was the American developer and one of the “the fathers of the Internet,” Vint Cerf, who first referred to the world wide web as a mirror. He argued that the great technological invention is merely “a reflection of our society,” and that if we don’t like what we see online, the only real option […]
Juxtaposed next to dance videos and trends fuelled by narcissism that saturate the short-form video platform, thousands of TikTok users came across Linda Dong, better known as @yoleendadong, on their For You page for the first time in August 2020. Commencing her videos with a simple (and now iconic) greeting—“Hello, my friend!”—followed by a facetiously blunt criticism […]
For the past few years, Ibiza mainstay Sonny Fodera has dominated in the very top tier of house music, with regular headline shows and residencies in the US, UK and all over Europe. Of course, none of this happened by accident—the Solotoko label boss has spent more than a decade tirelessly toiling away, building his reputation with DJ sets and […]
One thing about Manila Grey: they’re all about Vancouver. The Juno-nominated Filipino-Canadian duo know the city like the backs of their Supreme racing glove-covered hands. You can hear it all over their latest album No Saints on Knight Street, a shimmering collection of West Coast hip-hop named after the roadway that connects Van with their hometown of […]
Back in 2019, Diallo Riddle owned the summer. At that time, he had both Sherman’s Showcase and South Side on two different channels at the same time. It was a testament to the hard work he’d been putting in, and I was glad we got to capture that time. Yassir Lester is on his way to owning summer 2021, […]
