Tika Simone chops it up with NOW Magazine about her style! If you wanna get Intimate & Interactive with Ms. Simone check her out this Friday night at her weekly open mic night (this week headlined by Tanika Charles!). Info below!
What does style mean to you?
Style is important for a few reasons for me. Number one because there is the whole big taboo about larger women not being able to exude you know, offer, laughter, gorgeous style. I was quite frankly tired of seeing you know disgusting prints or floral carpeting for me to choose from from the regular plus sized stores. I go out of my way to go to Value Village or Black Market or any consignment stores really. It’s so important to me not only cause I’m living downtown and over a size 16, but a lot of young girls really do look up to me. I have to make sure that I come correct or I just don’t come at all. That’s just what it is [she laughs].
Here come the video clips from our interview with Shad a couple weeks back. Shouts to Footage for the…well, footage! Get @ him if you need that work!
Clip 1: In this clip we get the Coles Notes version of who Shad is (in case you didn’t know) and we get Shad’s perspective on where he fits in the hip-hop spectrum. TSOL is available now!
MayhemMorearty hooks up with Obieand drops “Don’t Play”, the first of many joints off his upcoming and highly anticipated “The Anarkist’s Cookbook” project on Mosaic Music / E1 Entertainment; his first solo project since 2007’s Out Here. It features 16 original tracks mixed by The Boogeyman and 2 time Stylus award winner Lissa Monet with the entire project hosted by Toronto comedy sensation Trixx.
Features & Producers include: Drake, Belly, JRDN, Magnum 357, TNT, J.B., Rich Kidd, Soze, Arthur McArtthur, Soundsmith, Northern Profit (Big Pops), Product & Whitton, Dirtwork , C4 & more .
The “Don`t Play” video directed by T.J. Derry will debut in the coming week and The “Thug U” single/video is forthcoming.
Fresh off taking over the #1 spot on The Megacity Countdown, the incomparable Tanika Charles is set to bless the Lambadina Lounge stage this Friday night as part of Tika Simone‘s Intimate & Interactive weekly open mic series (you gotta audition though, so don’t get happy). All the info under the hood! Can I come?
Louis Breezy drops official visuals (viral style) for his freestyle over “Light Up”. With his Silence Of The Lambs mixtape out and the date set for the release of his debut EP Topic Of Discussion, seems things are starting to get real busy for the 1st Party general.
This Friday July 16th at Augusta House, another 8 of the city’s dopest beatmakers will take it to the stage to flip, cut, mix, chop, and do whatever it takes to win $1500 cash and the title of Toronto’s hottest producer. The never done before, live production event Sound Battle Royal, kicked off their 5 part series last month, providing Toronto and it’s talent a new platform for appreciating a very important aspect of the production process: CREATIVITY! And who better to judge his fellow beatmakers on how to make it hot (literally!!), than T-Dot’s own Rico Suave on the boards, Rich Kidd. Producing for some of hip hop biggest talents such as Drake, Frank and Dank, Ill Bill and more, Rich knows a thing or 2 about making music for the masses and shares this knowledge with up and comers in the production game.