Articles by Riley Wallace

Battle of the Beatmakers Crowns lucyclubhouse Its Youngest-Ever Winner

PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2018

Producers from around the globe converged on Toronto from November 7 to 11 for the 13th annual Battle of the Beatmakers — a competition tha...

EverythingOShauN Wants Success on His Own Terms, and in His Home Country, on 'Everything Over Everything Else'

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2018

Regardless of where your musical tastes lie, you're likely to find an artist to satisfy your needs in the booming local Toronto scene. Than...

EverythingOShauN

Everything Over Everything Else

PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2018

Though it's been popularly defined globally thanks to a handful of artists that have managed to blaze south of the border, the Toronto scen...

Ghostface Killah

The Lost Tapes

PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2018

The Lost Tapes, the 13th studio album by Ghostface Killah (one of the Wu-Tang Clan's most revered rhymers), is a release that — considering...

Logic

YSIV

PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2018

Rapper Logic — though he's created one of the most admirably powerful brands in hip-hop over the past decade — remains oddly polarizing. Hi...

Eminem

Kamikaze

PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2018

Eight months after the release of Revival, and without any clever billboards or marketing ploys, Eminem released Kamikaze — a conflicted pi...

Young Thug

Slime Language

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2018

Young Thug told Hypebeast back in February that he had decided not to release any music in 2018, as he wanted to "act deaf for a year," as...

Jazz Cartier's Major Label Debut 'Fleurever' Is About to Change the Canadian Game

PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2018

Though a debut album is usually the first introduction a mainstream listener has to a new artist, it in no way means an artist is new. This...