If you’re looking for a reason to get satellite radio, here’s one: it’s one of the only ways, unless you live some place like Buffalo and get the CBC, that you will suddently discover you are listening to a Canadian rap show. Not just a rap show coming from Canada, but a show playing exclusively Canadian rappers, where you will, I shit you not, actually hear the phrases “Winnipeg hip-hop scene” and “Edmonton tuff”.
And as if that weren’t enough, Canadian hip-hop is actually kind of awesome. It’s a little like old school, with some pretty cool samples. Good rap and gay marriage? Vancouver’s looking better every day.
p.s. Not to be obtuse, I do realize that this post is utterly irrelevant and probably a little offensive to Canadian readers, of which I know I have a few. Believe me, I have nothing but respect. One of my best friends is Canadian.
Yo Mama
/ February 19, 2006Aren’t at least TWO of your best friends Canadian?
Jules
/ February 19, 2006I dated a Canadian once for two weeks. He wasn’t a rapper though. Damnit.
EV
/ February 19, 2006Yes Mom, but that didn’t flow as well. That’s the kind of creative liberty we bloggers take for the sake of style. Just like Canadian rappers.
aaron
/ February 20, 2006Only two? I’d have thought of your sixty-five thousand best friends, at least thirty or forty would be Canadian.
manda
/ February 26, 2006I’m as Canadian as they come, and no offence taken! I also only recently discovered the CBC’s hip-hop show, and am much more musically blessed because of it. Check out K-OS if you havn’t already. Awesome old school type beats from Toronto. His album ‘Joyful Rebellion’ is just spectacular. I’m trying to single-handedly win him a Juno – he’s amazing.
(ps, you’re officially Canadian if you know what a Juno is)
EV
/ February 26, 2006Coincidentally, I happened to read an article just this morning about a Toronto vocal group nominated for two Junos, so indeed I suppose I am officially Canadian. Sweet!
Derek K, Miller
/ March 9, 2006Come on up to Vancouver anytime. There’s more than rap here. Oh, and the mountains are fabulous.
EV
/ March 9, 2006Oh I totally know, I’ve been there and it is gor-gee-uss.