Hip-Hop
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Brother Ali Interview
Last week, I was honoured to meet one of my heroes in hip-hop, Brother Ali. We sat down before his show in Toronto and had a nice conversation for over an hour. He then took to the stage and rocked the house. It was an amazing night! I hope you enjoy this interview as much…
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Hip-hop Ruling at the Junos
This performance closed out this year’s Juno Awards last night. It’s a really inspiring performance that I just had to share with all of you. The Junos are the Canadian equivalent to the Grammy Awards. Hip-hop was well represented last night. Not only did K’naan close out the show by performing his hit song “Waving…
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Grand Analog Interview Part 4
Odario and I continue our chat just before Grand Analog takes to the stage opening up for Shad at Call the Office in London, Ontario. If you’ve missed Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3, you can go back and read them or you can go and download the whole show to listen to it…
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Grand Analog Interview Part 3
This is Part 3 of the interview I did with Grand Analog on location at Call the Office in London, Ontario. If you missed Part 1 or Part 2 you can go back and read the transcripts, stream the show with the player below, or you can download the podcast for free right now and hear…
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Grand Analog Interview Part 2
This is Part 2 of the interview I did with Grand Analog on location at Call the Office in London, Ontario. If you missed Part 1 you can read it here. You can also download the podcast of this interview for free from DOPEfm. I hope you enjoy it! Chase: “That was ‘I Play My…
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Grand Analog Interview
Last month, I had the honour of interviewing Canadian hip-hop group, Grand Analog. I have transcribed the interview for my blog but you can catch the whole thing as a podcast at the DOPEfm page. We had a lot of fun on the radio and I hope you will check it out. Chase: “All right…
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My Favourite Song Last Year at This Time (Day 30)
Day 30 – Your favorite song at this time last year Wow, I can’t believe the 30-day song challenge is already over. It doesn’t feel like thirty days has passed. I’m gonna miss this daily dose of music. I think I will do a recap post tomorrow to review the songs that I did choose.…
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Hilarious Song (Day 25)
Day 25 – A song that makes you laugh “The Old Prince Still Lives at Home” by Shad. This song is hilarious but the video kicks up the humour even further by giving us a nice parody of “The Fresh Prince” television opening credit sequence. If you like this song, please check out the interview…
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A Song to Play at My Funeral
Day 24 – A song that you want to play at your funeral I’m cheating for today’s challenge two by playing two songs from the best emcee to ever touch a mic, 2Pac. 2Pac has a lyric in this song that says “Have a party at my funeral, let every rapper rock it.” I’d like…
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Day 21 is a Good Day
Day 21 – A song that you listen to when you’re happy This song is a great song to sing when you’re in a good mood, and if you’re not, it can probably cheer you up. It works for me. It Was a Good Day by Ice Cube Go to the Day 22 song –…