Saul Williams wears many hats; besides his storied music career, Williams has released four collections of poetry and performed lead roles b...

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Toronto's Ian Kamau is a musician, a poet and an artist; "the goal of art, I believe..." he tells us in this episode of Exclaim! TV Sweet 16...

Toronto-based rapper Spek Won has been called one of the city's best-kept secrets; even BlogTO recognized the artist as one "five of the mos...

After a long history of separate musical ventures, Drew and Danielle McTaggart's paths finally crossed, sparking the beginning of explosive...

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For Raekwon, music has always been the most important part of his life, which explains his consistent and seemingly unstoppable involvement...

Jazz Cartier has come a long way from filling secret notebooks with lyrics that could've spawned more than a few albums. After debuting his...

Although many people assume that SonReal's music is a revelation of his emotional vulnerabilities, he's doing nothing more than being himsel...

"Don't Believe the Hype" is not only a Public Enemy song, but a philosophy that Adam Bomb always comes back to when writing straight-up bomb...

When asked how important it is to include personal subject matter in her lyrics, DeJ Loaf responds with a rhetorical question: "What would m...