Articles by Luke Fox

Tona Calls Out Veteran MCs and Unleashes His Most Personal LP Yet

PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2015

When Tona arrives to meet at the back of a restaurant in Toronto's Annex neighbourhood, he does something unexpected. Though a glass of wat...

Common / Jay Electronica

The Guvernment, Toronto ON, December 11

PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2014

Michael Brown. Eric Garner. These are the names Common — a Hollywood rapper who still rhymes with a purpose — invoked before...

PRhyme

PRhyme

PUBLISHED Dec 5, 2014

This isn't the first time Gang Starr's legendary DJ Premier has produced an entire LP for one MC since Guru died in 2010 (we see you, Bumpy...

Exclaim!'s 2014 in Lists:

Four Signs That '94 Hip-Hop is Back

PUBLISHED Dec 3, 2014

The young guys are paying homage to (copying?) it. The critics are reminiscing about it. And the artists are reuniting to tour it. It's t...

Run the Jewels

Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, November 26

PUBLISHED Nov 27, 2014

"Dude! It's not that serious!" El-Producto hollered at an overzealous security guard preventing a crowd-surfing female fan from riding the...

PRhyme Talk the Duo's Debut Album and Eminem's Love of Their Hoodies

PUBLISHED Nov 25, 2014

No one asked one of the world's most famous MCs to wear a hooded sweatshirt promoting a newly formed independent rap group in a viral video...

Partynextdoor

Mod Club, Toronto ON, November 12

PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2014

The lane had long been cleared for Jahron Brathwaite. All he had to do was make the layup. With his Drake co-sign, OVO sound and two buzz-...

Mobb Deep

Guvernment, Toronto ON, November 6

PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2014

Twenty years. That's how long it had been since the infamous Mobb Deep had performed in Toronto. Prodigy and Havoc were teenagers the las...