Articles by Thomas Quinlan

Kool Keith Is Lost In Space

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

After more than a decade, Kool Keith remains the most under-rated MC in the game, having single-handedly reinvented hip-hop a number of tim...

Breaking Bread with Peanuts & Corn

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

"Peanuts & Corn Records is the tangible piece of a movement that I couldn't begin to summarise," says John Smith of the independent, Vancou...

Divine Styler

The Power Of The Word

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

It's been ten years since Divine Styler's debut release and in that time he has only released two new records. But make no mistakes, the im...

Hip-Hop

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

When Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys (among others) made hip-hop a viable commodity, the music was just beginning to splinter into different s...

Various

Underground Hip Hop Volume 8

PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2015

Underground Hip Hop Volume 8 is another sampler of hip-hop and electronica singles from the most recent records on Urbnet, with the lone ex...

The Dirty Sample

Raw Produce

PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2015

More than three years in the making and partially funded through Kickstarter, this is a blood, sweat and tears project with a lot ultimatel...

royceBIRTH

Caesar Is Home

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2014

Despite numerous guest and production credits, collaboration projects, EPs and a solo album, rapper and Juno-nominated producer royceBIRTH...

MC Moore & Exit Only

Hardcore

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2014

London, ON rap duo MC Moore & Exit Only proclaim on the title track of sophomore collab album Hardcore that "this is for the hardcore heads...