Articles by Jacob Carey
Drake and 50 Cent's Surprise Sets Saved Montreal's Festival Metro Metro
PUBLISHED May 24, 2022
Festival season was back in full swing in Montreal with the kickoff of Festival Metro Metro, the weekend-long outdoor hip-hop festival that...
21 Savage and Metro Boomin's 'Savage Mode II' Doesn't Live Up to the Original
PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2020
Following over a year of teasing and four years of public demand for the follow-up to the rapper-producer duo's breakout album, Savage Mode...
Black Atlass
Dream Awake
PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2020
Black Atlass has been patient. The Montreal-born crooner has watched as fellow XO labelmates have all dropped their projects in the last fe...
The Weeknd
After Hours
PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2020
The Weeknd has remained Toronto's biggest musical enigma since stepping out onto the scene with his House of Balloons debut in 2011. Despit...
Lil Wayne
Funeral
PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2020
While Lil Wayne may have once been a top contender in the greatest rapper alive debate, Funeral proves that Wayne's quick-witted rapping mi...
Young Thug
So Much Fun
PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2019
Despite referring to So Much Fun as his debut studio album, Young Thug's contributions to the rap game have already established him as a pi...
YBN Cordae
The Lost Boy
PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2019
YBN Cordae had a lot of expectations to meet with the release of his debut, The Lost Boy — and above and beyond he went. The most lyrically...
Nick Murphy
Montreal International Jazz Festival, Montreal QC, July 2
PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2019
As the lights dim and a speaker from the Montreal International Jazz Festival announces the main act of the evening in a language he probab...
