I won’t lie: I kind of missed the recent ascent of local, Tdot rapper, Tory Lanez (update correction: no, I didn’t) but I caught him at his North American tour final homecoming date at The Drake Underground this past Sunday and quickly got up to speed with his Lost Cause mixtape, which the tour was for, in advance of that.
NOW mag may not have been a tad underwhelmed by the show but I, on the other hand, was pretty impressed (or at least I was with the last 4-5 songs I managed to catch). It’s hard to dismiss a show where an artist has as much control over the audience as I saw Lanez command. As I said on twitter, Lanez seems to have taken Drizzy’s creative template and actually might out-Drake Drake with it.
The tracks above come from Lost Cause. Dig them? Check out the entire Lost Cause mixtape on the Kitchen Facebook page HERE. Between this and the Sean Leon show I caught at The Hoxton, I feel pretty good about the odds of Toronto at keeping a post-Drake stranglehold on hip-hop dominance for the next while. #the6ix
Hit the jump for two more Instagram video clips from Tory’s show Sunday at The Drake Underground including one of him crowd surfing!
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