Archive for December 2010
Ben Kaplan: We’ve been doing a round-robin of the year’s best records and we’ve finally narrowed it down to four: Robyn’s Body Talk, The National’s High Violet, Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. We want you guys to help us decide which of the four is the year’s best [...]
1. Song title: “Keep Shining” – Shad Album: TSOL Lyric: “There’s no girls rappin’ so we’re only hearin’ half the truth/What we have to lose? Too much/Half our youth aren’t represented, the better halves of dudes/So we don’t hear about your brain, just your brains/How you rock a fella, Stacey Dash dames/We just need your [...]
CitR: Did you have to make many sacrifices whilst you were at university in order to pursue a hip hop career? Shad: Yeah but it was always fun, I did what I had to do, I played a lot with some friends, and would have late nights than would have school really early in the [...]
4. Shad – TSOL The perfection that was The Old Prince primed TSOL to be a bit of a let down. But Shad actually ended up making an album more accessible than its predecessor. He used the status garnered from his last album to build a list of collaborators (like Kamau, Brendan Canning, and Justin [...]
1. Shad Born in Kenya of Rwandan parents, Shad cut his lyrical chops while growing up in London, ON and funded his first album, “When This Is Over” (2005), with winnings from a rap contest on a Kitchener radio station. His self-deprecating, jaw-droppingly clever lyrics have launched him to the top of the Canadian hip-hop [...]
Beatpackers Live! with SHAD & DJ Cem, 11.12.2010 @ CBE, Cologne from DJ CEM / BEATPACKERS on Vimeo. filmed and directed by Thomas Nier (www.eyelense.com) Song List: 1. Rose Garden 2. Yaa I Get It 3. Rock To It 4. I Don’t Like To 5. The Cure Mix 6. A Good Name 7. Rose Garden [...]
Shad: “Rose Garden” A well-known MC in underground circles, Canadian rapper Shad saw increasing fame this past year thanks a damn good third album, TSOL, boasting catchy, hyper-lyrical singles “Yaa I Get It” and “Rose Garden.” The latter of those offers some of his most impressive rhymes to date, and the first verse is essentially [...]
“How long ’til Glee gon’ bite this too?” Watch Mike Tompkins’ a capella cover of Rihanna’s “Only Girl,” which also features a verse from Shad. I have a feeling this video will blow up and get more views than the very popular cover he did of Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream.” Enjoy and pass it along!
Shad will be featured on “Beneath It All” along with King Reign. Other Side of Tomorrow by Slakah the Beatchild Presents: The Slakadeliqs is set to be released on February 22, 2011. Vastly different from his previous hip-hop and soul focused work, The Slakadeliqs showcases Slakah the Beatchild’s range and musical diversity drawing inspiration from [...]
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