Articles by Anupa Mistry

Frank Ocean

Nostalgia/Ultra

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2011

For years, lothario types have dominated R&B, play-acting all vulnerable and boo-hoo when it serves them but turning hypersexual and swaggy...

Ghostpoet

Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2011

Ghostpoet's moniker evokes his super-lyrical nature, but the British MC's latest, Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam, is just as much a s...

Big Sean

PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2011

Big Sean, a Detroit come-up kid and Kanye West protégé, wants to be the Greatest Rapper of All Time. Dude doesn't even have an album out &#...

Das Racist

PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2011

You either love or hate Das Racist. Last year, the Brooklyn rap group — members: Himanshu Suri, Victor Vazquez and Ashok Kondabolu &#...

G-Side

The One… Cohesive

PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2011

Rap's embrace of the Internet is kind of like corner store dudes jacking their prices up a quarter. Overnight, out of necessity and somehow...

Lauryn Hill

Sound Academy, Toronto ON January 22

PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2011

Heavily reported late starts and preachy stage moments earlier in the tour led to high anticipation paired with tempered expectations for L...

Little Dragon

Wrongbar, Toronto ON January 17

PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2011

Toronto recently got a glimpse of Little Dragon via a Gorillaz show, at which the crowd got to witness lead singer Yukimi Nagano slithering...

Curren$y

Return to the Winner's Circle

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2011

One of the hardest working rappers out, Curren$y dropped two studio albums in 2010 and released his latest mixtape, Return to the Winner's...