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The Megacity Countdown
August 31st, 2010
10. JD Era – You Know This (-2)
9. Drake – Find Your Love (-2)
8. Jack Flawless - Found A Girl feat. Hakeem (NEW)
7. King Reign – Money feat. Kardinal Offishall & Saukrates (+2)
6. Untitled - The Champ (0)
5. Tanika Charles – Silly Happy Wild (-2)
4. Andreena Mill – La La La (0)
3. Drake – Fancy feat. Swizz Beats & T.I (+2)
2. Luu Breeze – Oh Girl feat. Show Stephens (0) 1. Shad - Rose Garden (0)
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MsTVAnkA: Tell me about your new mixtape, “The Leaks”, what can listeners expect to hear?
Aion Clarke: Listeners can expect to hear melodies reminiscent of 90’s R&B (which to me was a great era in the genre), you’re gonna hear real subject matter, you will also hear Bryan Michael Cox, Noah Shebib and more make for some of the best production on this planet, and I’m gonna be singing my you know what off!!
MsTVAnkA: A lot of people refer to you as a “true R&B artist”, what sets you apart from other R&B artists today?
Aion Clarke: I’m no different from any other true artist R&B artist. I grew up a church boy, singing my first solo at 4 years old and continuing on, singing with choirs and groups, playing the drums and just using the gifts God gave me in a positive way. I’m just doing what God called me to do.
1. What’s your daily Hustle? What do you do to survive? Well I’ve always understood that if you work hard now … you live easy later … and if you live easy now … later on in life your gonna be faccked cuz you haven’t created the foundation necessary to ensure financial stability for yourself. So i do any and anything to get paid as long as it doesn’t involve selling out or selling my ass.
2. What makes you stand out from the rest of the competition? What makes your hustle unique? A step ladder. And my hustles unique cuz it’s me. I’m not the first one to rap, work a 9-5, sell drugs (back in the day) but when i do it, it’s genuine and i think that’s a key point in how i’ve been able to connect with so many people on so many levels over the years and still maintain positive growing relationships with meaning. I’m also very extreme. It’s a passionate dedicated go hard or go home mentality i cant get rid of. If i’m goin in … I’M GOING IN … Oh … and i’m black.
Via HHC! One of T.O.’s most respected spitters chops it up with Dynamic about all this stuff below:
We’re back with a brand new episode of Bring Ya Eh Game (BYEG) hosted exclusively on HipHopCanada.com. Shouts to HipHopCanada’s Ya Favourite Lightskin for his support of the scene as a member of the HipHopCanada team and also through his own BYEG site. This time around he caught up with an extended member of our fam, Theo3. Here’s what Ya Favourite Lightskin had to say about the interview: “For this episode I met up with Theology 3 in Toronto. We vibed out a little before the interview, I found out he does not like to smoke, and I only found that out because I smoked until he was high from the contact fumes. We discussed what he has been working on, his feelings about the battle scene in Canada, his views on Don Cherry and his connection with a classic Canadian emcee who we all know as Mathematik. Look out for a music video at the end of the interview. Sit back and enjoy yourself!” Check it out after the jump.
Just getting up on www.ihustledaily.com. Here’s an interview they did with Jack Flawless (check out his Boi-1da produced “Found A Girl” below if you missed it last month…).
1. What’s your daily hustle?
Music is my daily hustle. It’s go hard or go home. I never doubt the fact that I am destine for great things in this music business so I feel no way putting all my eggs into one basket. Once things progress and I’m in a good situation I can see myself venturing out into other avenues but for now this is what it is.
2. What makes you stand out from the rest of the competition?
I just do me. I’m not trying to re-event the wheel. I just put my spin to it and hope everyone can relate.
3. In the past, what has been your most impressive hustle?
Musically speaking , I would have to say opening for MOS DEF and M.O.P. It was my first show and biggest to date. I can’t lie, I was nervous as shit. I haven’t even done an open mic prior to that. I just stepped out in-front of a crowd of about 1000 people and rocked out. The outcome, FLAWLESS. Lol. Before the show I got to kick it with M.O.P. and after that show I had a few words with MOS DEF. It was a great experience and very memorable.
Ms. Fiona does an acoustic version of “Monday Morning” for SBTV then (after the jump) talks Melonheads and her upcoming album “The MF Life” with AmarudonTV.
Visuals of Drake’s Tim Westwood interview. First clip they talk about the album and the ‘Rihanna rebound’; after the jump they chop it up about Lil Kim, Nicki Minaj, Maliah & his collabo album with Lil Wayne.
This Friday July 16th at Augusta House, another 8 of the city’s dopest beatmakers will take it to the stage to flip, cut, mix, chop, and do whatever it takes to win $1500 cash and the title of Toronto’s hottest producer. The never done before, live production event Sound Battle Royal, kicked off their 5 part series last month, providing Toronto and it’s talent a new platform for appreciating a very important aspect of the production process: CREATIVITY! And who better to judge his fellow beatmakers on how to make it hot (literally!!), than T-Dot’s own Rico Suave on the boards, Rich Kidd. Producing for some of hip hop biggest talents such as Drake, Frank and Dank, Ill Bill and more, Rich knows a thing or 2 about making music for the masses and shares this knowledge with up and comers in the production game.
