Tag Archives: Music

Khari Lemuel_ Love Has Spoken

My friend Kemba King quietly sent me a link to a grainy video by a singer and musician from Chicago named Khari Lemuel just over a year ago. That evening I searched the entire internet (well maybe not the whole thing but a lot of it) looking for more videos of this man (and more). […]

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Q-Tip_ African Ancestry

“I looked very Asian” you gotta love Q-Tip. I want to do this. That’s all.

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Press Pause Play_ Full Documentary

This is going to take about an hour and a half of your life, but if you’re an artist in 2012, it will be worth it. I’ve been following the trailers for months now; thank you to my friend Alison Isaac for passing me the full documentary.

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Frank Ocean_ BBC

Frank Ocean along with Kendrick Lamar and James Blake are probably my favourite ‘new’ artists of 2011. Young and exciting, creative artists who are pushing the limits and doing things different in a variety of ways. Looking forward to what these guys do.

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Exclaim MAGAZINE (Nov 2011)_ ONE DAY SOON

Exclaim Magazine, Nov 2011 by Kevin Jones Quoted text.. After a long, winding road paved with an expansive collection of introspective musings, reflective observations and ever-developing melodies spread over the three mixtapes that have surfaced since its inception, Toronto, ON poet/MC Ian Kamau’s long-building One Day Soon is finally ready to taste daylight. Distilling the […]

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SWAY MAGAZINE (Fall 2011)_ ONE DAY SOON

Sway Magazine Fall 2011 issue article by True Daley Quoted text.. Ian Kamau is not a man of many words. He tends to let his art speak for itself. Initially a member of the hip-hop collective Pangea Project, he has since released a series of solo mixtapes, with 2010’s Love and Other Struggles being the […]

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Blitz the Ambassador_ Native Sun

Native Sun a short film by Blitz the Ambassador & Terence Nance. Blitz the Ambassador EPK via okayafrica

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Shlohmo_ Places

Shlohmo – Places from STDYHND on Vimeo.

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James Blake_ A Case of You

James Blake. A Case of You. All about this dude, favourite concerts of 2011, James Blake, Robert Glasper (I should have made sure to go and see Feist at Massey Hall.. I messed up on that one).

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Shabazz Palaces_ Black Up

The group Shabazz Palaces has been around for a while. I first experienced a video/short-film of theirs a year ago and was immediately drawn in by the visuals; the guys voice sounded familiar. My friend Gabriel Teodros (an artist, music lover and native of Seattle where Shabazz Palaces resides) informed me on one if his […]

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