Ian Kamau drops the first of 3 visuals for his cover of City & Colour’s “The Girl” – originally recorded for his Love & Other Struggles mixtape.
The first time I heard this song it was sung by my friend Julian Caspari, a director at Schools Without Borders. He sang it for his then girlfriend, now fiance, Courtney at a retreat we went on in West Virginia (ya.. I’ve been to West Virginia). I appreciated the words to the song and it’s sentiment, found the song and played it consistently for weeks. When I was finishing the recording of Love & Other Struggles I realized that ‘The Girl’ was committed to memory and recorded it one day acapella. I later decided to put it on the mixtape. This video and the two that come after it will be the last visuals that I release from the mixtape before heading into album material (digital release date: Oct 7). Special thanks to Rakhi Mutta and her parents (Baldev {the ED of Punjabi Community Health Services} and Harjeet) for supporting the vision by letting mr. Nabil Shash (the director) into their home and Dallas Green for writing a beautiful song.
Visuals for the title-track off the 2nd installment of 9th Uno’s collaborative mixtape series with DJ Shamann, producer Norman Krates and emcee K-Dot-o-Dot.
hyperadmin | Mixtape | Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Debut tape from Rez Raida. Did you know Einstein wore the same clothes every day because it’s basically a waste of brain power to have to think about what to wear everyday. That’s your lesson for today. Thanks. Tracklist under the hood.
Rez Raida presents his new project titled “Genius Shuttlesworth”. The album is based on his mad scientist alter ego who’s character represents his obsession with “dropping science” in the “lab”. These slang terms used to describe the studio and dropping rhymes initially inspired the offspring of Mr. Shuttlesworth. The end result was this full length EP being presented to you.
This project features incredible production by the likes of Burd N’ Keyz, Elmnt, Soul and Don Draper with guest appearances from Phoenix, Jdyn, Elmnt, Don Draper, Mike Dara and Chris Price For all Rez Raida related news, please go to www.RezRaida.com, www.justcompton.com and www.uthghtwrng.com.
hyperadmin | Mixtape | Thursday, August 25th, 2011
New mixtape from another promising under-20 artist outta the city. Follow the kid @DeLaSola.
Long Overdue from Toronto’s very own Sola. Only 19 years old and on the rise. With features by Ricky Solo, Wall Fuego and JKB and production by Fresh produce, Flash beats and Pilot Lights (previously known as frequency beats).