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 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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Classified Nominated for Three MMVAs
The MuchMusic Video Award nominations have been announced, and Classified is up for three of them. His nods are below. Full list of nominees here. The show airs live on Sunday, June 20 at 9 pm.Post-Production Of The Year Classified f. Maestro, Choclair & Moka Only — Quit While You’re Ahead (Half Life Records/Sony Music)Post-Production: Teqtonik (Ryan Mackeen)Director: Kevin DeFreitasProducer: Geoff McLeanProduction Company: Fini Films Director of the YearClassified — Oh Canada (Half Life Records/Sony Music)Director: CazhmereProducer: John Nadalin, Jason LevangieProduction Company: The NE Inc.MuchVIBE Hip-Hop Video Of The Year Classified — Oh Canada (Half Life Records/Sony Music)Director: CazhmereProducer:
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Black Eyed Peas to Crush Common with Lady Lumps
start working on awkward poses now The Chronicle-Herald and Metro have both confirmed via Twitter that the Black Eyed Peas, Weezer and Classified will all be tearing the shit out of the Common on July 24. The cost? Your soul. More acts TBA, as well as announcements for the July 23rd show (Stephen Cooke says […]
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Never Mind the Bullocks – Here’s the ECMA results
A Razzie and an Oscar? Who am I, Julia Roberts? Man, I need something to wash the boring-as-shit taste of last night’s Academy Awards out of my mouth. You can re-visit the Coast’s infinitely more entertaining liveblog of the event, and if you want to read some funny celebrity Tweets about the event, go here. […]
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Peanut Butter Juno-Time
photo by the lovely Julé Malet-Veale The Juno nominations were announced this morning, and although the list features the usual suspects (Nickleblegh, Billy Talent, Michael Bublé and yes, despite the fact I quite like him, Joel Plaskett is ubiquitous enough at these award ceremonies that he, too counts as a usual suspect) there are some […]
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Anti-proroguing reward: Classified’s “Oh..Canada”
This one’s for the 20,000 plus people in 50 cities across Canada (and London & New York), who braved the cold today to protest Harper’s decision to prorogue Parliament. New video by Classified and a few hundred of his patriotic friends, shot at Granville Mall. Makes you want to hug a beaver, or something.
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Reading Classified’s Self Explanatory
Luke Boyd feels like a regular guy, though some things in his life have changed. While his picture’s being taken for this article, a surly man in a black leather jacket watches. During the interview, the man sits in the room, silently reading a paper. Daniel Robichaud is Sony’s regional promotion manager for the Atlantic […]