Gold Winner Thrillah Kane Silver Winner Classified Bronze Winner Cam Smith “I’m loving where I’m from and where I represent. Churchill Drive,” says Dartmouth rapper Thrillah (Daniel) Kane, last year’s gold winner for Best New Artist / Band, and the gold winner for Best Single (“Drop That”). In the last year, Thrillah’s been playing shows […]
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Best MC
Gold Winner Thrillah Kane Silver Winner Cam Smith Bronze Winner Ambition “I’m loving where I’m from and where I represent. Churchill Drive,” says Dartmouth rapper Thrillah (Daniel) Kane, last year’s gold winner for Best New Artist / Band, and the gold winner for Best Single (“Drop That”). In the last year, Thrillah’s been playing shows […]
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Best Music Video
Gold Winner Cam Smith, “Mad Crack” Silver Winner Like A Motorcycle, “Hands” Bronze Winner The Town Heroes, “Take On The World” 
Based on the 1987 horror melt-movie Street Trash, directed by Dave Hung and shot mostly at Pro Skates, Cam Smith’s “Mad Crack” is a masterpiece in no-budget cinema, incorporating professional visual and special effects […]
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Cam Smith
You’re at a party at Cam Smith’s house, and it’s one for the books. There are crushes, belly laughs, Roots is on TV and some of the most innovative artists in the city are hanging out and eating Tostitos. Cannon is heavily narrated throughout track transitions under this premise, making this album vaguely conceptual. It’s […]
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Cam Smith’s Cannon in front of them
Cam Smith w/Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, BadBadNotGood Thursday, October 23, 7pm Halifax Forum, 2901 Windsor Street $39/$45 It’s been an insane year for Dartmouth’s Cam Smith. By dropping bar-setting videos for “Turbo” and “Mad Crack” in advance of self-produced party album Cannon, he has primed us for his HPX takeover. “Rap is one of the hardest genres […]
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Best Hip Hop Artist / Band
Gold Winner Classified Silver Winner Cam Smith Bronze Winner Three Sheet Started from the bottom, now he’s here. “Here” of course being the Gold-winning spot in the best hip-hop artist category, of course. What did you think? Hosting the Junos midway through a cross-Canadian tour? That’s good too, as well as the whopping 4x platinum […]
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Listen: Cam Smith’s “Nonsense”
Listen now or save this one for Friday night, Cam Smith‘s newest single, “Nonsense” will most certainly get your cubicle sufficiently turnt and have you throwing a tantrum from now until Cannon will be released in its entirety this summer. Booyaka
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Talk of the town
Please, let’s just kill the stereotype. Dash all thoughts from your mind of a lobster in a sou’ester playing a fiddle tune about a haunted bowl of chowder. East coast music—a world of styles beyond the tourist-friendly jigs and reels—has more than paid its dues, so let’s move onwards and upwards. In honour of East […]
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This is what Xzibit’s tour van looks like
Yo dawg I heard you liked pictures of over-the-top tour vans, so here’s one right here. See it in person Sunday at the Toothy Moose with your favourites Jay Mayne, Cam Smith and Kayo. Here’s a song: And a nice laugh:
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Cam Smith is ready
It’s always gratifying when someone notices hard work. And when the folks noticing are the hip hop experts at XXL and the hard worker is Cam Smith, it’s even better. Smith was hand-picked by XXL Magazine to compete in their Ready or Not Singles Challenge, where tracks from MCs are voted on by the public […]