On Redefine, MC Teekay and DJ/producer Cosm have made their best offering yet. The soulful, jazzy, old school dish is served atop relaxing b...

Nerdcore is not unusual to the Canadian hip-hop scene, given the outsider influence of the vast prairies. But a skinny kid from big, bad Chi...

Cali rapper Blame One has been soaking his feet in hip-hop for almost 20 years and somehow, Days Chasing Days is only his debut album. No ma...

Remember VH1's White Rapper Show? If you do, you probably recall Jus Rhyme, the overzealous poster boy for conscious rap. Well, he's back. N...

Social Deviantz, one of the pioneers of Vancouver's now vibrant rap scene, have been together since 1992, and it shows. It's not just appare...

Matching the voice of Max Prime to the face would be difficult. In a police line-up, looking for the culprit of these fearsome raps, it's un...

Every song is a puzzle on K-The-I???'s album, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow. Rhymes like "Situations tend to shift motion/Focus in closer to t...

"This is in my blood," says Cale Sampson in "Never Had A Choice," which explains his gut feeling to rap - about whatever - because it's trul...

If this was Deep Rooted's hip-hop aptitude test, they'd easily pass. It's all there: catchy R&B hooks, grooving synth beats, nice cuts, heav...

In the album's liner notes, Boy George-looking rapper Daddy X — the leader of the six-man Californian group — says they're respo...

There is no beat that 9th Uno can't massacre. On Unassociated Press, the Canadian MC is thrown instrumentals of all tempos and styles by pro...

To tide us over while we indulge in the holiday spirit gorging on stuffing and egg nog, we asked a bunch of our contributors to tell us thei...

It began as a mixtape but evolved into the final instalment of DJ Babu’s Duck Season trilogy. It is what separates a DJ/producer mixtape fro...

Every artist has to find a way to dissuade listeners from the download and steer them towards the retail album. With Customer Appreciation D...

Chances are if you’re not familiar with the Western Canadian hip-hop scene, you wouldn’t recognize the music of Corvid Lorax. But in his Edm...

Named after Vancouver’s historic road on the waterfront, where luxury and poverty meet, Sweatshop Union, now loosened from Battle Axe Record...

After two decades in the game, and 43 years on Earth, it’s hard to believe that Sen Dog has never released a solo album, until now. As the s...

Often music fans experience discombobulation listening to an artist’s first shift from an independent to a major label, but Murs has been ma...

Opening with an encounter between a stranger and beatsmith Jake One, depicted as a street junkie addicted to "musical dope,” White Van Music...

If you’ve never heard RA Scion rap before, it really is something to experience. He possesses an impressive vocabulary, meshes it with a rap...