Cadence Weapon

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Rollie Pemberton is about to put the previously almost non-existent Canadian hip-hop sound on all of our radars. Son of a well-known radio DJ who plays black music, Rollie is a self-styled outsider and a perceptive analyst of our spectacle driven society, which he paints with a keen sense of humour and an irony which is brutally 'honest' (a word not often associated with the vocabulary of hip-hop). Since his first LP, 'Breaking Kayfabe' (2005), which won him the admiration of the media, he has coloured his catchy rhymes with electrofunk, house, booty bass and techno with all the agility of a chameleon, a creature from which he has borrowed two major attributes: 360º vision and the art of camouflage. He’s now back with the brilliant 'Afterparty Babies' (2008), on which he evokes, with amazing clarity, subjects as diverse as Tom Cruise, the world of fashion, the burdens of education and the vacuousness of club-culture. A potently precise weapon against the current plague of conformity and mystification.

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