Sway interviews Cazhhmere, one of Canada’s go-to video directors.

Sway catches up with Neenyo, who has recently relocated from Toronto to Miami.

Sway interviews Juno Award winner Beat Merchant, best known for his work with Canadian rapper Belly and currently the in-house producer for newcomer Harvey Stripes.

“I don’t want to know what certain rappers look like naked. You’re not going to find that on Bad-Perm,” says Zoi Koutso, co-founder of bad-perm.com, about keeping the site true to hip-hop culture, rather than gossip

”If there are people who missed the bus and didn’t know that we had talent, and they want to come look now, then come look. We’ve got plenty.” — Tyrone “T-RexXx” Edwards on Toronto’s musical landscape

It’s hard to believe, after bearing the full, two-and-a-half hour brunt of Jay-Z and Kanye West’sWatch the Throne tour stop at the Air Canada Centre on Wednesday night, that there was a time when hip-hop shows were almost presupposed to suck.

With the exception of a few artists who are discussing issues relevant to the common person’s life, the majority of rappers are still using the same formula of money, women and clothes to sell records. Christian artist NevaHurd has a completely different approach to life.

Two years in the making and it’s finally here. J. Cole’s debut album entitled, Cole World- The Sideline Story is now available ‘legally’ for the public.

Awakening, the latest release from Toronto native and Duck Down Music artist, Promise, is a unique blend of soulful gems and potent lyrical content that gives listeners much more than your average rap album.

By high school the wordsmithing I enjoyed most carried a soundtrack, so we’re talking about me listening to oodles and oodles of hip hop, Rakim and KRS One. And the artists they sampled were even greater freedom writers/riders, Fela Kuti to Gil Scott Heron. That’s how I became more attuned to the hyper-artistic use of rhyming couplets, all kinds of literary devices, iambic pentameters, metaphors and similes for days.