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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The night started off with a poem called “Tell Em,” by Alysestal Hamilton Thomas. It was an ode to black culture and a commentary on not only being comfortable in your skin, but also learning to love yourself. The crowd snapped their fingers as words resonated with the diverse crowd from all over the city […]
Long before he was a deoderant pitchman or syndicated talent show host or Greek-yogurt-obsessed lieutenant on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Terry Crews was in Toronto. To be more specific, he was in the 6ix because that’s where Platinum, the first TV series he ever acted in, was shot. He essentially played a hoodlum—and not even a funny one. You […]
