Music Video: Tory Lanez – Already Fly

Spotted this one via CityonmyBack.com. Song is actually OK and the video is admittedly pretty good too, but seriously, could he be swingin’ any harder on Drake and Wayne’s nuts from the beat to his spit game??! This is like a 1 on the originality scale. C’mon, T.dot: I know y’all can do better than this!

New Music: Drake feat. Swizz Beatz & Mary J Blige – Fancy (Remix)

One of the stronger tracks off Drake’s Thank Me Later album gets the remix treatment as originally teased by his performance of it at the VMA’s (see pic above):

[via DJ Decko]

Is Reema Major the New Nicki Minaj and the Next MC to Blow Out the T.dot?

“Are you kidding? Me? Go back to making calls??!”

Apparently this 16 year old female MC from Toronto has got major labels down in the US and up here in Canada going NUTS when, out the blue, she recently got named to spit in one the BET Hip Hop Awards Ciphers this year. How’d that happen??! No matter, it’s a good thing to see local talent getting that kind of platform of exposure no matter how random its genesis.

From what I’m being told, the feeling is that she could be the next Nicki Minaj. The next one??! Doesn’t Nicki Minaj have be the first one by legitimatizing her own hype and current off-charts buzz by actually achieving some success on the back of her own album release before there can be a next one?? On the other hand, I’m glad labels finally think there’s a future in female MC’s again and I guess for that, we should acknowledge what Nicki has done to date, regardless!

As for this “Swaggberry” song – it’s been banged pretty hard since July or so up here in the T.dot on Flow 93.5 and I think it could be a legit crossover hit single a la Cali Swag’s “Teach Me How to Dougie” with the right team behind it. RIM might be (cleverly) running with a pretty extensive ad campaign for their ubiquitous Blackberry smartphone line touting it’s BBM app, but this record might do more to extend it’s growing popularity within the younger set at the expense of the iphone than any traditional ad campaign. Like I said on twitter a couple weeks back: they might owe Reema’s label, G7 a check if that happens!

JJ Money feat. Reema Major – Swaggberry [direct mp3 download link]



For more on Reema Major, click HERE.

New Music: Trey Songz feat. Drake – The Usual

I missed this one when it leaked the other day but heard it tonight on Hot 97 but I’ve subsequently become obsessed with it playing it multiple times in a row which I do very rarely for music nowadays – sh-t is FIYA!!!!!

Throwback Toronto Hip Hop prod. by Scott La Rock from StreetBeat, Break’N Out

Two tracks from a 1987 Canadian hip hop compilation called StreetBeat, Break’N Out by pioneering T.dot hip hop groups, Michie Mee & L.A. Luv and Rumble & Strong. The Rumble & Strong track is allegedly the last record Scott LA Rock (of the legendary Boogie Down Productions) produced before his untimely passing. Click HERE to go to the excellent NorthsideHipHop.ca site for more details on this comp.

Rumble & Strong – What Others Sound Like [mp3 download]

Michie Mee and LA Luv – Elements of Style [mp3 download]

[spotted via grandgood]