Shouts to hustleGRL for upping some MuchMusic coverage of the 2010 Stylus DJ Awards. In this clip they’re all about “Stylus Style” featuring interviews with Trish, Famous, hustleGRL, Belly, Kim Davis, Danny Fernandes, the homie Big Norm and more!

TSOL is available now!!! Simple little viral video Shad did with The National Post. One mic, one rapper. What else do you need?

Canadian Hip Hop Artist Shad visits The National Post to record two a cappella tracks from his latest release, TSOL. TSOL is currently sitting at #2 on iTunes Canada. In an age where music is shared so freely, we wanted to THANK YOU for supporting Shad’s new record in such a big way. We’ve also been getting a ton of support from the Canadian press which we’re extremely thankful for as well.  Here is a piece that the National Post did with Shad last week.

Previous: NEW VIDEO: Shad feat. Lisa Lobsinger “Rose Garden” (Directed by HotDogGarbage)

Slakah, Tingsek & Ebrahim perform “War Within” @ Lula Lounge.

Please believe this song is siiick!

Previously: NEW MUSIC: Slakah The Beatchild feat. Ebrahim & Tingsek “War Within” (Prod. Slakah The Beatchild)

Directed by Hank Devos.

T-West drops visuals for “Black Kid/City Life” off his latest mixtape “Maybe It’s Okay”.

Lyrically, it doesn’t get any truer than this. Keep killin’ em Mr. West!

Previously: MIXTAPE: T-West “Maybe It’s Okay” (Mixed by Dj Gutta & Live The Dream)

Leading up to this year’s awards 1LoveTO chops it up with MMVA nominated (and past winner) director RT! Congrats to Tizzle on his 3 nominations!

Like we said before, we want to give YOU our readers the EXCLUSIVE MMVA content that nobody else will have…

Toronto’s own Director RT! has been nominated for his 5th consecutive year as “Video Director of the Year” for the 2010 Much Music Video Awards. This year he’s up for a total of 3 video nominations, and his company The NE is up for 8 in total. Make sure you check out his work below…

Seen on TOFLO!

Footage of Slakah The Beatchild, Sweden’s Tingsek & Vancity’s Ebrahim playing to a packed house @ Lula Lounge.

Nice!

Previously: NEW MUSIC: Slakah The Beatchild feat. Ebrahim & Tingsek “War Within” (Prod. Slakah The Beatchild)

Directed by HotDogGarbage.

The visual for  Shad’s second single “Rose Garden”; produced by TLO & featuring the Broken Social Scene’s Lisa Lobsinger; off TSOL which is a MUST HAVE album!

Canada get it HERE!

Rest of the world: https://www.kt8merch.com/store/pages/12101/SHAD_TSOL_CD_-_2010.htm

His full Canadian tour schedule’s available after the jump!

Previously: NEWS: Shad’s “TSOL” is in stores now!!!

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Stylus DJ Award nominee DJ Charlie Brown chops it up with VEM TV about his inspirations, his affiliation with P. Reign and Reps Up, what he’s working on now and a lot more.

Just like many passionate artists and musicians. Charlie Brown expresses himself through his music. Before he began his journey of becoming Canada’s most requested DJ and promoter he fell in love with music at a early age. Following his brothers footsteps he began studying the history of music and started working on his craft. His Legacy began six years ago as a dream of taking DJ’ing and event planning to its highest level. Once of 3 founding members of Legacy sound he’s faced and overcome adversity and the up’s and downs of the business. Providing people with a unique style of taking people on his musical journey from the old school in the latest of all music genres. Displaying on BET’s Rapcity in da basement and becoming the youngest Canadian DJ to do it as well. His Legacy speaks for itself and it will continue to grow and evolve as he now is working on a mature branding to accompany his style of playing music. This is Legacy of DJ Charlie Brown.

Yay for cougars!

Previous: Stylus Group – On The Record w/ Wristpect | Famous | Jester | Lissa Monet | JD Era | Richochet from Ill Kidz

New joint from Classified. Keezy gives a nice break down:

Very creative joint from Classified, detailing a deep story involving a fan named Phil Lacroix that he sold a beat to that tragically passed away in a car accident (R.I.P.). Class discusses how he didn’t have the inspiration to rock the beat initially and finding it after learning about Phil’s death. Taken from Classified’s latest LP, “Self-Explanatory”.