Shouts to Mila Martin, a high school student from Toronto that put together this documentary about music, the Internet and all that good stuff (done for a class at school if I’m not mistaken). Features interviews with Saukrates, Rochester, yours truly from OTA Live/Cityonmyback and more!

THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. The sound could’ve been better at some parts. But for my first major documentary, given my circumstances. Ko and I did amazing. – Mila Martin

Reacheration.

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Off his recently released Up In The Air mixtape, Tha Dancer Kidd does his thing over Drizzy’s “Over”. If you’ve missed any of his web campaign thus far, this vid kinda wraps it up for you by showing clips from his previous viral videos. Link below to get the mixtape and also catch up on his videos etc…Shouts to Team Offense!

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Director extraordinaire David F. Mewa gives us a sneak peak behind the scenes of how he came up with the idea for Rochester‘s new video “One Night” feat. Daniel Daley. Only a director can make a simple video blog work this tight lol. Check out more of Mewa’s FLIP Cam video blogs here!

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Directed by Mike Portoghese.

Pretty dope trailer for an upcoming mockumentary called “Know Your Rights”, producedby  Jane-Finch.com founder Paul Nguyen with music from The Smugglaz.

Screening takes place this Friday (May 21st). Check the details below.

Know Your Rights is a public legal education film(with unreleased and official Smugglaz music) that aims to provide people, and particularly youth in at risk environments, with: basic information about their rights when dealing with police; an understanding of powers of arrest, detention and search; strategies to deal with various situations relating to police contact; and an understanding of the recourse available when someone experiences an abuse of police power.

Jane-Finch.com invites you to the premier screening of Know Your Rights on Friday, May 21st, 2010 at:

York Woods Library Theatre, 1785 Finch Avenue West, Toronto
Food and Refreshments will be served at 7pm, Screening at 7:30pm followed by Q&A

Free admission, free parking available onsite.

For more about The Smugglaz crew check out:
www.myspace.com/thesmugglaz
www.youtube.com/smugglaztv
twitter.com/smugglaztv

A song like this can only authentically come out of the most multi-cultural city in the world, Toronto. Shouts to Arabesque who’s set to release his new album, Nuclear Ambition, on June 1st! Joint’s produced by Anonymous Twist and the video is directed by TJ Derry.

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Via TOFLO! I’ll let Ro’Shine tell it. Oh, and if you missed Aion’s rendition of “Kiss From A Rose” you need that in your life as well (below).

Aion Clarke (a.k.a. Voyce Alexander) performs renditions of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song”, and Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?” for the Hiafa Univeristy charity event. Proceeds from the event supported the University of Haifa’s recently established “Peace and Conflict Management Studies program” to nurture a new generation of leaders with the ability to promote more effective and peaceful approaches to conflict resolution.

Expect the video for Aion Clarke’s “Do You Right” to drop this spring!

Previous: NEW MUSIC: Aion Clarke “Kiss From A Rose!”

Beatnick & K-Salaam re-fix U.K. band Keane’s single “Stop For A Minute” featuring K’naan. Peep the original version of the song under the hood too. Shouts to TOFLO!

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Erik Flowchild chops it up with Coloredtheories.blogspot.com before his show at MOD Club on May 6th. Good to hear that Flowchild “genuinly just wants to help”. Lol!!! Feel you bruh!

On the afternoon of May 6th 2010 I got the opportunity to get together with up-and-coming Toronto hip Hop artist and a friend of mine ERIK FLOWCHILD to do an interview with him about his past, present and future. Check out part one of the interview where we talked and laughed about different things like 2nd grade love letters, his current project The Chixtape and his apparent magnetism to girls going through romance issues! Brought to you exclusively by me, ONYEKAOYEN, and coloredtheories.blogspot.com.

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Seen on TOFLO!

Drake does his “Closer” reinterpretation (this time with new lyrics) during a performance in San Francisco. That’s Goapele on the right, who joined him on her hometown stage to do the/her song, but whoever filmed this either got tired of holding the camera or doesn’t understand how great it would’ve been for all of us to see the whole thing too (smh, lol).