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Category Archive: Reviews
SHAD: Your Everything Man from hueTV on Vimeo. Whether we like it or not, in the state it’s in, Hip Hop as a whole is a genre chock-full of labels. I’m not talking about the mobs of artists trying to start up their own record labels, I mean the labels defining rappers as rappers. You [...]
Photo by Julian Fok (from Fistful of Sound) Check out the concert review written on Shad and his supporter Miracle Fortress’ performance by Hip Hop Canada. Vancouver, B.C. – This past weekend Juno Award winner Shad K performed a very early show at Fortune Sound Club…it was strange to be in the club before the [...]
Shad TSOL Black Box Recordings : 2010 86 Posted on 09/30/2010 It’s hard to come by a balanced hip-hop album these days with the right amount of humor, wit, musical variety, production, and of course, lyricism. Often times rappers will attempt to include too much of these factors into one body of work at the [...]
Which do you want first: the good news or the bad news? Let’s save the good news. The bad news is that your favorite rapper may soon no longer hold the title of your favorite rapper. That’s because (the good news) people are finally waking up to the brilliance of Shad, Shad K, Shadrach Kabango [...]
At the MuchMusic Video Awards after-party, rapper Shad sits by himself in a booth against the wall of Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern, arms outstretched, ankle on knee, head bobbing to a performance by the Canadian rock band Arkells. Most industry people cup drinks and stand with an entourage. What gets Shad to his feet, and onstage [...]
Self deprecation has always been a part of certain strains of hip-hop. Among the waves of artists who rap about blunts, broads, and Bentleys, there has always been a select few whose subject matter has always leaned towards the simpler things in life. Canadian rapper Shad has always fallen under the latter of these [...]
Titling your record The Old Prince is an interesting move, because while it places the album in the familiar hip-hop language of MC braggadocio in comparing one’s self to royalty, it already offers an intriguing level of contradiction. Upon spinning this record it might seem like a rather ordinary album of an underground rapper making [...]
By Grant Lawrence Closing the show was Canada’s hip-hop hitmaker, K-Os. One is never quite sure what they are going to get from a K-Os set, but last night, he delivered a solid, energized set of his hits (including my fave, “Valhalla”) while backed by a full band (featuring a couple members of Small Sins!) [...]
