Ghettosocks and Muneshine (pictured above) are entering the town between the peaks with their new rap group—Twin Peaks. “We’ve completed recording and are in the process of mixing a 15-song rap album that loosely fuses David Lynch’s work (i.e. Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, etc.) with braggadocious rhymes, over an assortment of original […]
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D-Sisive moment
Everywhere Toronto-based rapper D-Sisive goes, Orville Knoblich follows.”That character plays a major part as far as the visuals are concerned,” says D-Sisive, otherwise known as Derek Christoff. So, musically, he’s D-Sisive. But visually, he’s Orville Knoblich, decked out in tuxedo, bowler and ostrich mask. Think of the figure, who appears onstage and on album covers, […]
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Alpha Dogg
If you happen to walk past the Metro Centre and have a Woodstock seizure at the scent emerging, don’t fret, the hippies didn’t win. It’s merely Snoop Dogg taking his patented mid-set chronic break. Tickets are $44.50 to $54.50 (gin and juice sold separately). Many are unaware that Snoop Dogg’s real name is Cordazar Calvin […]
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It’s all Something Good
Markit and Boy-ill are close. They’ve been friends for over a dozen years, following each other throughout HRM’s schools, basketball teams and later forming the hip-hop group Fax 4 with fellow MCs Spesh K and Quake, as well as being roommates. Their latest collaboration, Something Good, sees them working more closely together despite the fact […]
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Three Sheet heat
Firefighters in full uniform jump from a red truck parked outside Elephant & Castle. The shrill fire drill still screams from the now-empty basement where a diverse mix of Three Sheet addicts thrives on the hip-hop group every Thursday night. “I wore my nice bra,” singer Vanessa Furlong says loudly over the buzz of 50 […]