when a new Drake project drops, I want to be back in Toronto walking around hearing his songs blasting out of cars, barber shops, cellphones on buses. I want to hear his music in the mall while sportchek employees discuss the drop. These are the moments I miss the city.
I'll forever cherish the spring and summer of 09 when So Far Gone established Drake as an emerging talent. that was the year Toronto embraced him as one of our own. Every BBQ, beach hangs, pre-drinks and late-night seshes was soundtracked by Drake.
I remember that summer being sweaty and heading down to the beach through a packed TTC, 'Best I Ever Had' serenading couples walking hand in hand. 'Housatlantavegas' playing at dance parties, the world collapsing into each slowed down bar.
'Little Bit' embracing us as we walked into a friends backyard. it was the summer between high school and university & I'll forever remember celebrating birthdays shouting along to Santigold on 'unstoppable' because when you're 18 you believe you're invincible.
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5 Mar
For #BandcampFriday I've compiled this expansive list (including diaspora artists) into @buymusicclub lists (where bandcamp links are available). Bear with me as these evolve and are pretty generic right now. Feel free to @ / DM me to be included.
First up, I'm chucking every and anything I discover by South Asian musicians into this one list: buymusic.club/list/aajkal-th…
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Hello! Here's a thread of some excellent South Asian music. I hope you find something you like in here. The list spans new releases, personal favourites, labels, seminal albums and gibberish I've been thinking about lately:
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Firstly, let's shout out @prabhdeepmusic's 'Class-Sikh' Rapped entirely in Punjabi, the album sees the New Delhi artist wearing his heart on his sleeve, discussing the pitfalls of drug addiction, seeing friends in jail & being a survivor of a genocide prabhdeep.bandcamp.com/album/class-si…
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