Gold Winner Classified Silver Winner Quake Matthews Bronze Winner Ghettosocks Two thousand eighteen has been another busy year for Enfield’s main man Classified, AKA Luke Boyd. In between producing tracks at his studio for a wide variety of artists—Hillsburn, Jody Upshaw, Elijah Will—he performed his MMIW anthem “Powerless” at the East Coast Music Awards show […]
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Best MC
Gold Winner Classified Silver Winner Quake Matthews Bronze Winner Ghettosocks The rapper/producer has just released a new album, Tomorrow Could Be The Day Things Change—his fifth major-label release, but his catalogue is way into the double digits nowadays—13 tracks for you to get stuck in your brain. It covers the usual range of subjects—“Legal Marijuana,” […]
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Your 2017 Music Nova Scotia award winners
A post shared by Port Cities (@port_cities) on Nov 5, 2017 at 5:39pm PST Another Nova Scotia Music Week has come to a close after a wild weather weekend in Truro, where the roving annual event is in the middle of a four-year stay. Harmerrific Port Cities walked away the biggest winners, with five of […]
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Quake just wants to Celebrate
H alifax rapper Quake Matthews (AKA Matthew Arab) says his newest album, Celebrate the Struggle, packs heavy messages and a personal philosophy sculpted by his experience in the local rap scene. “I still feel like maybe I have a lot more to learn, but I have a lot of years under my belt and I’ve […]
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City Natives drop lyrics to inspire
City Natives w/Quake Matthews, Jay Mayne Friday, October 21, 11:10pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $15 Since playing Halifax Pop Explosion in 2014, City Natives released a pair of albums and won e East Coast Music and Indigenous Music Awards, and this summer toured the Maritimes with A Tribe Called Red. The hip-hop collective of […]
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Watch Reeny Smith’s new video “Last Call”
Halifax soul-infused pop singer Reeny Smith just dropped a new video for the bangin’ single, “Last Call,” featuring some slick bar-tending by rapper Quake Matthews, and funk-R&B guitar and bass. The single, released a few months ago, was produced by Corey LeRue (Neon Dreams) with co-writing by Dylan Guthro and Laura Roy. Directed by GILL, the […]
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11 local hip-hop artists are heading to Atlanta
Next weekend, 11 local hip-hop artists are heading to Atlanta to showcase at AC3, one of the largest hip-hop festivals in America. The southern city is a literal hot-bed of hip-hop, home to artists like Gucci Mane, Rich Gang, 2 Chainz, Jermaine Dupri, Waka Flocka Flame, Andre 3000, TLC and many more. Also known as ‘Hotlanta,’ several musical movements have […]
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Where I work: Quake Matthews
WHO HE IS After his rise as a battle rapper, Quake Matthews has been grinding since his 2010 debut, The Myth, laying down tracks with everyone from Laura Roy to Dylan Guthro to Neon Dreams, working with Freeway, appearing in The Source and putting out The Book of Matthew and Corrado. On Friday, the King […]
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Music video premiere: Quake, “Mellow Triangles”
It’s Halifax rap video week! Get in on it with Quake Matthews‘ newest for “Mellow Triangles”. Shot by BADFUN Media‘s Mat Barkley and Pat Campbell, with help from Byron Kutchera (camera operator for the Trailer Park Boys, if you’re the type who cares about credentials), the crew worked collaboratively with Quake, after he invited BADFUN […]
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Pusha T: Rap royalty
Since 1992, Pusha T (AKA King Push AKA Terence Thornton) has been on the grind with his brother No Malice (AKA Malicious AKA Gene Thornton, together AKA Clipse). The Virginian duo has collaborated with just about everyone in the game, breaking off into ones in 2010. King Push is one of those rap gods. His […]