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.
hyperadmin | Interviews | Saturday, May 15th, 2010
Dope likkle feature put together by Complex.com where 1da breaks down the making of some of his biggest joints thus far.
Drake – Best I Ever Had
“It was December ’08 or January ’09 when I made that beat. I found that sample on my computer and I heard the intro and I thought it was cool. My boy gave me a folder of a bunch of samples and I heard it in there. The sample on it is very smooth. It’s a quicker tempo than a lot of the stuff I do. I was just envisioning a song about a girl. It’s an emotional kind of beat so I figured it would be a girl song. I thought it could work for Drake. He was finishing [So Far Gone], and he said he needed two more songs. I had just done the beat the day before—I sent him that one and he just killed it. He sent it back, and I knew it was a hit the first time I heard it. That beat took me about 20 minutes. And in a few hours he finished the whole song. That one was just wham, bam, thank you ma’am.”
Bigg Soxx lays down an exclusive freestyle for DJBooth.net over Gucci’s “Lemonade”.
The 169th entry in our DJBooth.net Freestyle Series comes courtesy of Saukrates, the Toronto native who brought us Wednesday (Remix) and the reader-acclaimed Hot Like Summer. On his brand new, exclusive Lemonade Stand freestyle, the Blacksmith/Universal rapper flows over a Bangladesh-produced instrumental originally featured on Gucci Mane‘s Lemonade. Saukrates is currently working with Canada’s own DJ Wrispect on a new mixtape series titled Bridging the Gap. In addition, he is set to appear as a supporting act on Redman‘s upcoming North American tour.
“As an artist you still need to know about the business side of things to be successful.” says Junia-T, Toronto MC, producer, businessman and big brother to so much young talent in this city. “Since I was 15 years old (spitting in our school cafeteria ‘Cafrica’) I was observing and getting mentored by my crew SMC out in Sauga”.
From building schools in India to defining success for himself over 10 years of taking in the GTA music scene, Junia has paid close attention to his fellow scene makers and learnt from some of Toronto’s dopest promoters and artists on how to develop a versatile career. “I essentially started out as a water-boy. I was too young to get into shows my crew was performing at so my boys brought me in as the dude with the drinks. They took me everywhere. I learned a lot of what I know now from those days”. Since then Junia has continued repping his west side crews Ridgeway and Hustle & Flip, at the same time building up his repertoire downtown and in each corner of the City.
After smashing the web with his viral videos (see links below) TDK aka Tha Dancer Kidd aka Spider-Man releases his debut mixtape Up In The Air hosted by DJ Gutta. It’s mostly freestyles but there’s 2 original tracks on there to see what the kid is really coming with. Full tracklist under the hood.
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).
Via HHDX! DOPE artwork for Marco Polo‘s new album (dropping June 29th) designed by another Toronto native, Michael Del Mundo. Peep a full interview with Marco and Michael down below also.
The cover has many specific images that mean something to me. We got the crazy beaver, which is a Canadian reference. I have my brother from another, Shylow, in the back taking pictures looking like a muthafuckin’ jolly-ass Santa Claus just happy to be along for the ride. Of course, the Duck Down [mascot] dude! All my albums on the dash and flying in the air, DVP sign on the highway which is Toronto all day. – Marco Polo
