"NORTH" side beats??

[Gene Flo]

the only canadian folks ive heard of is Isosceles... they are pretty sick

 

[Agent Smith]

just curious...
how would you canada cats rate/place the peanuts and corn guys?...i mean i'm not blown away by them but i do dig the stuff they put out...

 

[Phenomenal]

man forgetz massari...that dude is WEAK! every time is on much muzik i wanna yak....im from mississauga, which is the city right next to TO....so i can tell ya...us canadians...we got jim carey and mike meyers....and celine dione....is shania twaine canadian? well either way......we got celine dione...and thats all it matters...lol

 

[classic]

candian MC's are all over the place(no disrespect) i like cardinal but thats about it. Most of the other cats i heard try to hard...

Also i dont consider most candian MC's like cardinal offical canadians. cardinal dosent claim Toronto or CAN. His as claims jamica. All you see is jamican flags in his videos and u here him rhyming it patwa. thats how most of the MC's over their roll(that ive heard). The dont wanna rep canada, who does??? LOL(i know that was a low blow)

But i love the hoes at carabanna, and they love yankee's

 

[dakotathecanuck]

i feel ya. Canadian cats need to seriously startrepping and being origanal.. Yes, Kardinal does rhyme in patwa .. But he MOSTLY reps T.O... He just put out a new freestyle.. I think its called Kardi's Korner. Check it out!! its great!

 

[sYgMa]

candian MC's are all over the place(no disrespect) i like cardinal but thats about it. Most of the other cats i heard try to hard...

Also i dont consider most candian MC's like cardinal offical canadians. cardinal dosent claim Toronto or CAN. His as claims jamica. All you see is jamican flags in his videos and u here him rhyming it patwa. thats how most of the MC's over their roll(that ive heard). The dont wanna rep canada, who does??? LOL(i know that was a low blow)

But i love the hoes at carabanna, and they love yankee's

Sorry, bro, but i gotta set it straight there... as you "African American" in the States have your own slang, we, in Canada have ours.

You actually gotta be here to understand it fully. When I speak in french, I use an Haitian slang when I speak to my peeps (actually,it's a mix of creole, french and english, if I want to be more precise) , when a jamaican speaks with his brigen (friends), same thing. It's part of our identity as Caribeans... So that's why he speaks in Patwa... get me...

Since most Blacks in Canada actually know where they are from, we represent our heritage by speaking our patwa and that's the biggest difference between blacks here and blacks in the US (you of all people should understand that, Class).

And most canadian mcs do rep Canada, actually, you havent heard his whole catalog, so you cant really say that we don't (listen to Bakardi Slang... very nice beat) Thing is, our commercial beats dont, so they can be more universal. We know that American folks wont relate to us talking about Canada, so we don't. Comments like the ones you just gave just proves that... it's a marketing strategy. So, when speaking in Patwa, and waving flags of our origins, the other west indians can relate to "our" rhythm and poetry...

Unfortunately, you dont speak french (I'm guessing) but still go and listen to the groups I posted, you'll hear what I'm saying...





get me?


**** Also, I dont see a problem with being original... Why would an MC be limited by a geograhical position? Someone in NY can put a lil jon track in his album if he wants and no one will say a thing (well most people wont if the track is good)

 

[classic]

nahh its cool, i buy know means consdier myself an expert on candian culture

but
Ive been to toronto bout 6 times in the (past 4 years) and vancover once, and nova scotia bout 4 times. when dealing wit black folks the only cats i noticed that had their own distnict culture (as well as slang) were the cats from nova scotia(maybe casue they been their for awhile)

but in T.O. when i ask cats where they from or what they are, the first thing that comes out they mouth is the island their parents are from. As far as slang, from what i personally saw(again im no expert) it was a mix between carrabian slang and american slang, i dident really hear to much original , "candian" slang. Same wit the music... The cultural their i saw amoung black folks was the same as what i experinced in london, heavy west indian & american influces. Not too much influce from the actual country they are in....


As far as your area i woudent know casue i dont speak french.....I heard they got fine chicks though.....

 

[dakotathecanuck]

I second checking out Bakardi Slang... "My styles of the thermastat plus Im comin' from the Cold!"

 

[lowlow]

I agree
My advice for some canadian artists to check out is

Kardinal Offishall (prob. the biggest rapper in Canada)
Choclair ( dude can get mad deep)
Rochester ( i like his flow)
Point Blank (there grimmy)
DocDEMEYEZ (hes S.A.R.S. camp and very good might I say)

I was sorta wondering the same question? Any good ways to describe the sound of the Nasty North

don't forget tom green, he from canada and he bought to drop soon.. that shit's gone be hot, you know er'body gone be bumpin that junt..... lmao

 

[dakotathecanuck]

lol.. Tom Green that dude is funny!!

 

[sYgMa]

nahh its cool, i buy know means consdier myself an expert on candian culture

but
Ive been to toronto bout 6 times in the (past 4 years) and vancover once, and nova scotia bout 4 times. when dealing wit black folks the only cats i noticed that had their own distnict culture (as well as slang) were the cats from nova scotia(maybe casue they been their for awhile)

but in T.O. when i ask cats where they from or what they are, the first thing that comes out they mouth is the island their parents are from. As far as slang, from what i personally saw(again im no expert) it was a mix between carrabian slang and american slang, i dident really hear to much original , "candian" slang. Same wit the music... The cultural their i saw amoung black folks was the same as what i experinced in london, heavy west indian & american influces. Not too much influce from the actual country they are in....


As far as your area i woudent know casue i dont speak french.....I heard they got fine chicks though.....

People in Nova Scotia are Acadians, they are a nation in their own and have their culture... I think you also have Acadians in some parts of the States...

as for the T dot, as I said, it's a cultural thing. If someone would ask me where I'm from, I'd say that I'm an Haitian living in Canada. No doubt. As I said, you gotta live here to understand. Our cultural heritage is very important here. that's what keeps us togheter. You rep the US because, in a way, it's what you can rep. It's your country. Canada is where I live, but most people that see me in the streets wont say: "that's a quebecer"... they'll say "that's an haitian". They'll say I'm a quebecer when they'll need my vote or something like that...

That's why we rep out country... and I'm pretty sure it's the same in the UK. The only place I think that a black man outside of a black country consider that he is at home is the US... (with some exceptions, of course)

I dont want to turn this in a racial or political thread, so I'll stop there... if you want to go further into this, you can PM me... but you get where I'm going with this....

 

[StraDivaRius]

but most people that see me in the streets wont say: "that's a quebecer"... they'll say "that's an haitian". They'll say I'm a quebecer when they'll need my vote or something like that...

Yo Sygma that shit is funny but soo true at the same time!
you working with anybody in Mtl?

 

[krysolite]

yeh wut sygma sed. if u ask a canadian where hes from, they go, parents from ______, but born _____. all about ur native country culture here. and toronto artists do rep toronto in their music. i forget who sed somtn... just replyin

 

[sYgMa]

Yo Sygma that shit is funny but soo true at the same time!
you working with anybody in Mtl?

I'm just trying to start a new group... but I aint working with a known group yet... got connections, but didn't start doing a project with those cats yet...

 

[sYgMa]

So, for the answer... The short answer would be "No, there is no peculiar sound in Canada. Not like the South or the West..." If you'd listen to a Canadian beat... you couldn't really say, right away: "Hey! that's a Canadian beat." But there is still a thread that connects most canadian hiphop beats.

There is no 50 Cent here, no one repping gangsta (well the ones who do dont do well)...

There is a big caribean influence (for the reason I stated) from the black artists...

You'll hear a lot of collabs from T.O. since the mc who are making it work a lot togheter... and their beats are more on the Dancefloor tip...

But that's about it!!! (I guess)