The Artist’s Speak Back! – The War on Graffiti T.O.

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I’ve been following this story for a while now. I can’t believe some of the comments and actions by our Mayor towards Street Art (Graffiti) in Toronto. This video does a great job of explaining whats really going on this city.  For the first time I got to hear what other Artist have to say on this topic. check it out!

Video by Char loro, Dylan McFadyen, Eric Kupp.

The Weeknd

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Frank Ocean and The Weeknd, The Weeknd and Frank Ocean, The Frank and Weeknd Ocean…any way you look at it, these two artists are leading the next wave of R&B, or as the experts now call it “Hipster R&B”. I don’t care what you call it, just make sure you call it GREAT MUSIC. I already talked about Mr. Ocean in another post, so this time around I’m going to focus on the other half of R&B’s new heroic tandem.

The Weeknd, nee Abel Tesfaye, is the next great talent out of Toronto that has managed to captivate the fickle tastes south of the border, and the stubborn home crowd. The first emotion that comes when listening to his 9-track mixtape “House of Balloons” , is lush milkiness. The sonic output of this album is real smooth, real powerful, real robust stuff. His sounds are reminscent of a new age Sade, mixed with some Beach House sampling, add a sprinkle of sultriness and you have a recipe mainly geared towards the fairer sex. The Weeknd has smashed all people’s expectations of what R&B should sound like in 2011, but in music, different is good, and in his case great.

The Weeknd came to popularity when fellow Torontonian Drake tweeted lyrics of his track “Wicked Games” also providing a link back to the song Drake’s own website. From there The Weeknd took care of the rest, grabbing people’s eardrums and never letting go. Considering our sports teams suck, it’s good to see something good coming out of the T-Dot.

Type Music: Women stuff type music

The Weeknd – High for this

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Minnesota??!!

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Minnesota aka Christian Bauhofer just made my day with one press of the play button. Roofback samples none other than the BAWSE himself, but flips it a la dubstep. Thumping synth’s, well laid lyrics, and that bounce that would make hoopties jump from the 305 all the way to the city of Angels.

Minnesota is kinda new on my dubstep radar, but with this intro I can tell you fo sho that this man will be among my summer lookouts. Is it just me or does dubstep and Rick Ross go together like Nutella and Bananas?? Answer is YES.

Shout out to the North Stars…

Type music: Barbershop dudes clowning you for liking this track, but asking you for the link on the low TYPE MUSIC

DJ Minnesota – Roofback

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