It’s a T.dot Thing
[MP3] Spek Won feat. Boko Maru – Pangcake Mix (Love Guru)
New music from one of T.dot’s finest produced by GMF and from the forthcoming album, SOFA K!NG AMAZ!NG…
Interlude:
“You know….. you never stood a chance.
I mean it was like love at first glance,
And you ain’t even know it.
Crossed my cross hairs…..
from there it was like aaahh yeah.
Fallen angel dipped in east African bronze.
I played it cool like the Fonze.
Happy days was yet to come.
Who would’ve known“.
– Marty McFligh
Nuc*smE
[via @Spekwon]
[MP3] Grandtheft – We Run Dis
Fresh off his smash #1 Hypemachine hit with diplo, the Calvin Harris “Sweet Nothing” remix, Grandtheft is back with a new production, this time an original rather than remix track. Ya dig?
[News] Rappers: Submit Your Application to Play NXNE 2013 in Toronto, ON Next June
Once again I’m going to be screening the hip-hop (as well as the funk, soul, gospel and reggae) submissions for NXNE and you know how I get down! Over 300,000 people attend NXNE each year so if you’re at a point in your music career where this makes sense, I strongly urge you to apply. CLICK HERE or the banner above for submission details.
[MP3 + Music Video] D-Sisive – Don’t Turn The Lights Out (feat. Neverending White Lights)
This is not really my bag, a little too top 40/alt-pop sounding for my ears but, ‘objectively’ speaking, not a bad track from one of the T.dot hip-hop scene’s finest. Here’s the official blurb with more…
There was a time in Derek Christoff’s life when he didn’t have many words. It’s not that he didn’t have a story; but he was stuck on the start.
In the late 90s, the young MC known as D-Sisive came up quickly in the Toronto hip-hop community with a string of well-liked singles, but his burgeoning profile was stopped cold with the illness and death of both of his parents in a six-year span. Grief and depression stole his creativity and motivation for the better part of a decade, but in a moment fit for fable, his lyrical inspiration returned suddenly one day while singing along to the Beach Boys on the radio. It was the new start D-Sisive’s story needed. And he hasn’t stopped since.
2008’s The Book EP was nominated for a Juno and its single “Nobody With A Notepad” won the SOCAN ECHO Songwriting Prize. 2009’s Let the Children Die was long-listed for that year’s Polaris Music Prize (and would later get an elaborate send-off with a full-band live funeral after legal issues forced it out of production). The same year, he released Jonestown as a free download. Less than a year later, we got Vaudeville, and a year after that, the Jonestown sequel, Jonestown 2: Jimmy Go Bye Bye, back and forth between his story and others’. Along the way were a series of Hijacked singles, with D-Sisive rapping his own words over the music of such songs as Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks” and Sigur Ros’ “Festival,” an homage to just some of his comprehensive influences and tastes.
On 11-13-2012 D-Sisive released his latest project, Run With the Creeps (TheD-LuxeEdition), it’s a deeper dive back into himself and with his wide-open online look at the creative process along the way, his most honest yet. The hunger, pain, humor, and scrutiny have been on display every day; he’s forever brazen in ambition and as credulous as a kid. He’s writing the whole thing down, sparing no detail and certainly no time.
D-Sisive is a disciple of hip-hop and a Bowie devotee. His eleven-year-old imagination was captured by Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff’s “Nightmare On My Street,” and later, by a legendary punk spectacle as heard on Creep single “GG Allin.” There’s something new everyday, and so he’s running, trying to keep up with himself, trying to connect with his fellow creeps. There was a time he didn’t have these words; didn’t know how to say them. So now he’s making sure he doesn’t miss even one.
[MP3] Keys N Krates – Nowimgunnachange (Now I’m Gonna Change)
New crack from them Keys N Krates boys laced with a little Calvin Harris. Yadig??
#DK11: The album, This One Goes To Eleven… OUT NOW
