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The artists in Beat Nation do the same thing in their media of spray paint, live mix video, turntables, and beat boxes. Some places are christened out and they don’t have traditions or you can have a story like me where I didn’t grow up with traditions but really took to hip-hop. But most people don’t have that luxury and that is what made it so much more epic and created great memories, cause we were doing that. Most don’t break bread much but not these guys. He’s worked with k-os, Kardinal Offishall, Saukrates, Choclair, Divine Brown, Glenn Lewis, Jully Black, and of course, Drake. Currently residing with his son on the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve on the outskirts of Montreal, Daybi grew up in Vancouver and Winnipeg, where he began rapping at an early age. His upcoming album.I had the chance to catch up with Strickland to speak about the album, the lead off single “Turtle Island,” meeting and working with Notorious B.I.G.,Since the release of “Turtle Island,” Strickland has unleashed.Redman, David Strickland & legendary engineer Tommy Uzzo (Photo:Like with the Method Man stuff, I think it was High Note, at Erick Sermon’s, with Keith Murray and he came up and said.I don’t know if they’re still doing it now but I think they still keep to that formula because they have that luxury. Think about that in terms of America, so I think back and go look at my track record.

We will endeavor to find new ways to continue this production.Much of the credit for these sites must go to the fine web design and construction by Archer Pechawis. Then when I met brother Ernie and put it together it was an Ahuh moment. It was good medicine for me.So I try to keep myself humble, keep my humility and use it in my daily life. Beat Nation – Hip Hop as Indigenous Culture Montreal film director Mathieu Favreau's most recent video on Canadian native rapper Daybi is a tribute to the artist and his community. If you get a chance to go check out the video, that’s the intro to the album,Ernie Paniccioli & David Strickland (Photo: Supplied).It kept me out of trouble because there was so much chaos going on in my life. 2 album, racism, & more,Culturally Rich: BigBob Pattison talks Elite Sound, the state of hip-hop & more,Vancouver’s Kresnt stops by to discuss his latest album Everybody Knows.

So the teaching we have is the DJ is the drummer, the emcee is the story teller, the b-boy is the dancer. In keeping with the spirit of promoting Canadian hip-hop and the excellent, diverse talent coming from this country, we’d be remiss not to shine a light on individuals like veteran David Strickland (aka Gordo). Thanks to him and to curators Tania Willard and Skeena Reece for their work as well as to the previous curators of these sites: Dana Claxton, Daina Warren, Archer Pechawis and Elaine Moyah. For many Indigenous youth around the country, hip-hop has been vital for sharing these perspectives.

I regret to say this is the last web site we will produce for this program, as it is set to disappear in March 2010. A lot of times people get excited and want to tell people what I do but there’s more to life than music.

So if your successful in anyway it doesn’t give you the right to treat people in a bad way, I can be rich today and broke tomorrow, everybody would forget about me but people will remember how you treat them. I would’ve been involved a lot more because I was a studio rat.

What is most striking about this work is how much of it embraces the traditional within its development.In many ways, the greatest achievement of Haida master carver Bill Reid was in taking the carving tradition from wood, silver and argillite into other sculptural media.

It was a dope song and I wish he hadn’t been freaked out. Through a variety of factors, it developed much more slowly than Canada's popular rock music scene, and apart from a short-lived burst of mainstream popularity from 1989 to 1991, it remained largely an underground phenomenon until the early 2000s.