A dark cloud loomed over the city, as Pusha-T was performing at Danforth Music Hall November 20th 2018. Terrence was anticipated to be ready for anything after his highly profiled beef with local darling Drake. Thrown drinks, bodyguards with 2x4’s, fists flying and a stabbing were all a part of the chaos as the night … Continue reading Toronto’s Complicated Relationship with Hip-Hop & the Black Community
Category: Where Dundas West Meets
Music, Independence & Gatekeeping
Music, Independence & Gatekeeping. The current era of music has been dominated by streaming, with Spotify and other platforms giving independent artists a direct line to a broad base consumers and audiences. This is a huge step for a community and industry that at one point made it almost impossible to reach large and broad … Continue reading Music, Independence & Gatekeeping
Newsletter #1: Chance and Vic
In 2013, Vic Mensa and Chance the Rapper, two Chicago rappers in the SAVEMONEY collective, dropped breakout mixtapes The Innanetape and Acid Rap, respectively. Both were young, barely out of high school and aimed to encapsulate their worldviews, their Chicago upbringing – drugs, guns and gangs – musically. In 2014, when we were finishing our … Continue reading Newsletter #1: Chance and Vic
