Silent Cacophony
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Juno 2024 Rap Album Picks
Canada’s biggest night in music happens this weekend; the 53rd Annual Juno Awards. This year the event is being held in Halifax, a place that has birthed some of Hip Hop’s greatest artists. But as you can see from this list, there is pretty much no representation of that. Here are my thoughts on each…
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Juno 2024 Children’s Album Picks
The Juno Awards are the biggest night in Canadian Music and they happen this weekend. To prep for the big event, I did a deep dive into a few categories. The Children’s Album nominees run quite the gamut of styles, genres, and moods. Here are my thoughts on each of them. ABC SingSong – Big…
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Hip Hop Headucatorz New Song + Resource “School Power!”
School Power is a song by Hip Hop Headucatorz that brings classroom and school objects to life through the power of personification. Each verse comes from the perspective of a different school object. Some of the objects help and some might actual hinder the learning process. The song is accompanied with ready-to-use resources for your…
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Workshops for Educators (Headucatorz at RFTLOI 2024)
Reading for the Love of It is the largest literacy conference in Canada. Teachers, educators, librarians, and anyone interested in promoting literacy and inspiring the youth can come to experience a wide variety of speakers and workshops. I am proud to be presenting two workshops for educators at this event with my group, Hip Hop Headucatorz.…
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Open Mic Night Sarnia (Feb 9th)
This Friday, I will be spinning a special event in Sarnia. It’s a Hip Hop Open Mic Night with some performances by local emcees. Hosted and Headlined by LeoTheLionz With performances by 98BABYEEAcid RaineAK-ehFNB WOLFKINGS UNIONParadoxxxQuay ZukTuk And Music By DJ Chase March WHAT: Open Mic Hip Hop Night WHEN: Friday February 9, 2024WHERE: The Crown Cafe Bar…
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I was on CBC Radio with Hip Hop Headucatorz
I was a special guest last week on CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning. It was absolutely incredible to be in that studio and to be part of the Hip Hop Theatre Fest in our nation’s capital. My group, Hip Hop Headucatorz was invited to be the focus of a panel about using Hip Hop in Education.…
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Hip Hop Headucatorz in Ottawa (This Weekend’s Hip Hop Fest)
The National Arts Centre in Ottawa is hosting an amazing event over the span of eleven days and my group is proud to be part of it. The Hip Hop Theatre Festival will feature live performances, rap battles, panel discussions, and more. Some of the events are ticketed by many of them are free, including our panel Dangerous Minds: In…
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Organizing My DJ Music Library (Part 2)
Having an excellent DJ library is essential. I’ve been working on mine for years and have accumulated a lot of music. Streamlining this collection will make it even easier to DJ weddings and open-format events. This is the second in a series of videos I am working on documenting my process of cleaning up and…
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Word is Bond Rap Radio’s 600th Episode (Thursday)
This week I will be going in to the radio station to do a special live show celebrating the 600th episode of Word is Bond Rap Radio. I will podcast it here next week. There will be special guests, live performances, Hip Hop trivia., cyphers, and mixsets. 600 episodes is a milestone that I am…
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Organizing My DJ Library
Having an excellent DJ library is essential. I’ve been working on mine for years but will have it near perfect soon. I purged my computer of anything less than 320 kbps already, this is what I am doing now. This video was inspired by one posted just a few hours ago. It was entitled “Start…