Shad gets his press game on with a publication out of Colorado Springs called The Independent. Solid likkle read. Here’s a taste or click below to read the whole thing!

Listen to Shad’s new album, TSOL, and you’ll quickly realize that this is not your father’s gangsta rap or, for that matter, your grandfather’s Sugar Hill gang.

It’s not that Shad — whose 2007 album, The Old Prince, was one of five finalists for Canada’s prestigious Juno Award — is turning his back on hip-hop history. It’s just that when he does look over his shoulder, he’s more likely to be checking out early ’90s innovators like the Pharcyde and De La Soul.

In fact, the Canadian hip-hop phenom’s recent “Rose Garden” video is an homage to “Drop,” the Pharcyde video that Stereogum named one of the “Best Backwards Videos of All Time.” At the end of Shad’s version, most of which also runs backward, he finds his friend watching a video and asks what it is.

“It’s the Pharcyde,” his friend answers. “Oh cool,” says Shad, easing into a chair to watch. “Never heard of ’em.”

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