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this is the Peace Wall on Sussex Drive. is anyone proofreading this thing? compare top right and bottom left…. (at Peacekeeping Monument)
the shithead convention is in town again. how many adults can you late term abort at once?
- This is the first part of a little project I will work on while traveling. I will take reader input on where to go next, and we will see where this goes. Updating from my phone so apologies for any awkwardness.
The beach is worn smooth and hard and the ocean is cold. Confused winds bring alternately sea-salt and the smell of smoke from somewhere inland. Before you jut black rocks like fingers. Two towers stand, skeletal, in the distance.
What do you do?> search the nearby shore
My great homie Apt, a fellow Halifax->Ontario transplant, who was just a kid back when I only just wasn’t, has finished his first new rap project since Canvastripper in 2005. It is called 12 Bits and I think it is AMAZING and I am not wrong.
Check out his sampler plate here - check out the GRIT on all surfaces. Wow!
This is what he says:
“This is a taste of what to expect from the album 12 Bits, to be released on Droppin’ Science in the next month or so. All production by Apt, featuring appearances by DJ Cosmo, Ghettosocks, Bix, Timbuktu, Saidah Conrad and of course: George the Pug.”
here is a 6 litre container made of 1/2 cent’s worth of plastic and worth ten bucks taxes in because of its trendy logo. this is a calvin fucking klein garbage box.
- What do you most want to be known for that you've already done? (not just albums or songs, everything)
I mean I WANT to be known for something I don’t think I’ve done yet - creating something really special and meaningful that connects with countless strangers the way the art that adds meaning to my life connected with me. I’m barely scratching the surface of what I hope to offer and I hope I get on the right track before I die.
That’s not what you asked though is it. I guess I just hope people who’ve met me tell their friends I’ve been kind to them, and said something so funny they almost barfed.
- Hey Jesse, did you watch Ice T's kind of useless documentary about lyricism where he gets all these amazing interview subjects and then spends the practically the whole time talking about himself? (The bit where Eminem talks about Treach is cool tho)
I sure did! I actually found it really charming, even though I think that Ice T is almost a surrealistically unintuitive host/director/producer for a doc on that particular topic. For all of his doggedly influential presence at a certain impressionable stage of hip-hop’s development, even when I was a kid I thought what passed for “lyricism” coming from him was laughably dull.
It actually makes him nearly perfect for the job, though - it turns him into a Diane Fossey, making observations on a species he has made himself intimate familiar to and with, but which he could never understand innately. Like when Rakim talks about plotting out sixteen bars, Ice T CANNOT HANDLE THIS INFORMATION. He has NEVER HEARD of knowing how rap works. It quickly becomes really clear why he did what he did, and never what they did.
His selection of interviewees is mostly pretty hard to find fault with, though - especially in the earlier, easterly-oriented segments. Talking to Snoop and Dre is kind of agonizing if you think about what other west coast style innovators he COULD have spent time with… neither of those dudes have ever been competent writers on any level. That was kind of weird
I was frustrated that he didn’t ask better questions, but I LIKED the camaraderie he had with almost everyone he spoke to, so eff it. The only sad thing was that you could almost taste how hard he was PRAYING every time he asked a hip-hop legend to “just say any rhyme that comes into your mind…” that they would kick one of his. It’s cringe-inducing when Snoop finally grants his wish… only to trail off, and have Ice T bring it back because HE IS SO EXCITED SOMEONE SAID HIMMMMMM!
Oh it was also weird how much of it was urban scenes of Ice T, age 67, wearing sunglasses and regarding New York City with an icily restrained yet seething hostility. I think that was because he is an ACTOUR.
- Re. The Day's Arc: usually laws of attraction don't work the way described in the song. Opposites attract and all that.
Yeah tell me about it.
That second verse is by Rez Villain, a rapper who came from the Membertou Mi’kmaw community in (well, surrounded by?) Cape Breton, NS, and who worked a lot with Backburner in the mid-00s. He recorded me and Don Brownrigg (Newfoundland singer who provides the hook) at his studio one night, but wasn’t satisfied with his own verse yet at the time, so he presented it to me later after he had a chance to work on it solo.
What I initially latched onto was the defiance expressed toward the idea of a god to which one should be grateful, and the ensuing theme of self-reliance.
It took me quite a few listens to notice that a lot of the rest of the verse is basically a Cole’s Notes version of The Secret. I wasn’t savvy enough to pick out buzzwords like “abundance” or “laws of attraction.” Once I did realize, well… there were some things I would considered vital to exercise censorship over, but this verse sounded good and I didn’t want to undermine my friend, so… I let it ride.
My secret confession is that I chose the sample from the 1984 film version of 1984 that precedes his verse to give a subtle indication of what I thought of the implications of the new-agey content. I wouldn’t probably be confessing that if I were still working with Rez, but sadly we haven’t stayed in touch in the years since I moved away from Halifax. Last I saw him was during the 2009 visit that yielded most of the recordings for Backburner’s Heatwave album - someone tracked him down and brought him to the studio for a writing session (I think we were working on verses for Fester’s beat that became “Harm’s Way”), and it was chill to see him but we never saw him again to record… or as far as I know, at all.
Hope he’s still rapping out there somewhere, and that everything’s all good with him and his kids.
- Is Kraft dinner really as popular in Canada as Wikipedia makes it out to be?
I don’t know. I really dislike it. I was always more about mini ravioli and mini pizzas and regular size fried chicken.
- Who are some of your favorite lady rappers?
I’m listening to Toni Monroe and Nikki Lynette a lot lately. Of course Azealia Banks is a tower of power.
MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, and Antoinette blew my mind when I was younger. Who else… K. Flay is a really good rapper. Eternia is in a league of her own, which is to say far above many other MCs. Jean Grae has had some ups and downs in her long career, at least in terms of appealing to me personally, but those ups are UP. Queen Herawin from Juggaknots runs rampant all over their Use Your Confusion album, holding her own next to her brother Breezly Brewin who is a contender for my favourite rapper of all time, and next to whom a lot of my other favourites would look bummed out and broke. I really liked T-Love’s Return of the B-Girl EP. Lauryn Hill and Ladybug Mecca really stood out in Fugees and Digable Planets, respectively.
Ohio’s Lioness I’ve only ever heard on guest spots with Dose One but I love her for them.
When I was in Austin in March for SXSW I saw Psalm One positively murder ish, and was also taken aback by how dope a rapper named Signif was.
Bindi Irwin of course.
I love this video, too:
Herd Mag Issue 03 Launch and Mercury Lounge. Jesse Dangerously rappin.
Peep me in my A Tribe Called Red tank looking bashful and cute…
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Whoah my friend Satellite High is skyrocketing to tumblr fame because he and the inimitable @donglord69 cheered on Raffi being mad about the right things. That’s neat!
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I have a ritual where if my phone isn’t showing enough bars I wave it around, hoping its gyroscopes and clockworks will tell it something is happening and it will re-establish contact with the satellites in space and refresh my facebook comments.
or I just point it at a window, impatiently.
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Fat people do not have to be healthy in order to deserve dignity
Fat people do not have to be healthy in order to deserve dignity
Fat people do not have to be healthy in order to deserve dignity
If I see someone say, “It’s ok to be fat as long as you’re healthy,” one more time I’m gonna lose it. I know this is a crazy radical idea, but how about someone’s health has nothing to do with how you should treat them or how much respect they are deserving of?
Word up are these same people going around taking shots at other motherfuckers who aren’t healthy - like car crash victims, severe influenza cases, sufferers of any given chronic syndrome?
All these same people who say that also believe in the pathologization of “obesity” as a morbidity unto itself, so they also categorically do not believe it is possible to be fat and healthy btw. Thanks anyway you WEIRD LIARS.
- A More Genuine "Gender Failure"
The Realm Between ‘He’ and ‘She’
Well here’s a mysteriously disappointing article from the front page of the Toronto Star, prominently featuring one of my present-day idols of songcraft, Rae Spoon. I guess when journalists get to talking about Rae in any context other than sheer music review, somebody is taking a crack at settling this gender thing once and for all. And that always goes super well.
No I am just joking that almost never goes any good at all.
I don’t want to trash the article’s author for the things I see as problematic in the piece - it IS a complicated topic, inasmuch as even thinking about it as something that could ever go more than one way is fundamentally dissuaded by the very language we have available to discuss it. I think it was undertaken in good faith, and that the people quoted seem like well-selected sources of insight.
It’s not a bigoted article, really, but it is ultimately extremely clumsy in my view. Here are some questions that I had while I was reading it:
- Did editors massacre the writer’s use of pronouns to not match the preferences sometimes stated in the same sentence? Or did the writer do that and editors failed to catch it? The caption on the photo leading the whole thing off says “Rae Spoon feels she is neither female nor male and prefers to be referred to by the pronoun they.” By not doing so immediately after using the undermining “feels,” an authorial insistence that Rae is incorrect cannot be avoided. (of course the author of that caption is likely not the author of the piece)
- What’s with the editorializing use of “between” in the headline? Nowhere in the text is a case made for man and woman being extreme poles on a spectrum everyone must fall between. In fact the particular focus of this article is on people who find themselves outside of that spurious gradient. The headline set me up to feel critical of the whole article - these people are not somewhere BETWEEN “he” and “she.”
- Why does every? single? person they introduce in the article - with the not insignificant exception of a single intersex individual - have a background of being assigned female and raised as a girl? The bias is almost absolute and the effect is that no perspective is present from anyone who was assigned male and/or raised as a boy.
It seems to me that a segment of the Star’s readership who may have no other contact in their lives providing personal insight into the views and experiences of trans* or gender-nonconforming persons and communities might read this article and form a view of gender-nonconformity as being a phenomenon present exclusively among people who REALLY are women but wish they weren’t. I don’t think that’s an accurate description of anyone who was interviewed, and I think to present it in that light does a great disservice to the insights they shared.
And that is a damn shame because the platform of an article with this exposure, considering the evident work that went into developing the source content, could have done a lot more than simply muddying the waters the way I think it ultimately does.
This is a lot more disappointed than I’d like to be by an article with apparent good intentions and so much done right at some stage.
Wow if anyone had ever explained this to me i wouldn’t be stuck having to make rap now. i guess learning goes both ways…
We are delighted to announce our 2013 Music Lineup:
— The Yips
Live music begins at 1pm, Minto Park, Ottawa, Ontario :: Sunday, May 26 :: Ravenswing Arts & Music Fair :: Free!
More details about each band, including a sound byte, will be posted in the coming weeks leading up to the Fair. Stay tuned!
- My great homie Apt, a fellow Halifax->Ontario transplant, who was just a kid back when I only just wasn’t, has finished his first new rap project since Canvastripper in 2005. It is called 12 Bits and I think it is AMAZING and I am not wrong. Check out his sampler plate here - check out the GRIT on all surfaces. Wow! This is what he says: “This is a taste of what to expect from the album 12 Bits, to be released on Droppin’ Science in the next month or so. All production by Apt, featuring appearances by DJ Cosmo, Ghettosocks, Bix, Timbuktu, Saidah Conrad and of course: George the Pug.”
(No streaming audio available)251 plays - Montreal’s Recordface remixed our unreleased track “Pro-War Bumper Sticker” and now it is way more synthy and aggressive and I want you to play this with BASS and I want you to shout parts of it at people you think are HOT and parts of it at people you think are ASSHOLES and if you get those parts mixed up then OOPS.
(No streaming audio available)273 plays - adamwarrock: The first single from the forthcoming EP, City Beautiful, featuring Jesse Dangerously & Beefy. EP digital release December 4! Lyrics and performance by Adam WarRock Production by Rob Viktum http://adamwarrock.comhttp://robviktum.bandcamp.com Featuring: http://dangerously.cahttp://beefyness.com click play on this, then reblog it with your favourite lines typed out! then you will Have Good Luck!
(No streaming audio available)789 plays - thattechnique: just playing with my music and I found that these two mashed up nicely. Celebrity Nudes - Jesse Dangerously Mineshaft - Croc 2 Soundtrack Holy cats, that works SHOCKINGLY well! Good work, “That” Technique! Shout out to Timbuktu for the original Celebrity Nudes remix beat, and to me for the original original celeb nudes beat which does not appear in this mashup, haha.
(No streaming audio available)541 plays - One day when I was reading in the news I seen somebody was sayingAbout a sister with my same last nameShe might have stabbed somebody who was stalking her outsideOf a pub, with a crew who not only was dogging her outBut slashed her, punched her with a glass in their handand yo it shattered, and punctured her salivary glandShe was cut and.. bleeding.. needing to make a path from themAll because they thought she was too masculine or somethingLosing blood and surrounded… (((((maybe she cut one down?)))))Hard times, but the part I find distressingIs that when the cops addressed it, only CeCe was arrestedNow that one raises questions, and answers unapolageticwas it because she is a trans person of colour?(((Bet it was!))) You said it, ‘cause the law puts you in prison whenYou stand your ground but aren’t named George fuckin’ ZimmermanIf you present as feminine and plus coloured like TrayvonNOT getting murdered is the charge you are arraigned onWalk with makeup painted on and pain is your rewardYo I’m saying, there’s no praying for an angel with a swordTo swoop and save you; (((you might gotta do something ratchet, baby)))‘Cause to let them fuck you up is just batshit crazyThat shit slays me - I’m all for non-violence, butIf you’re not white and seem queer there’s no smiling whenSirens sound and you seem astounded whenThe victim is the only one the cops are taking down with them(((Everybody saw it…))) they only thing they caught herDoing is refusing to be a god damn martyrThey called it manslaughter, locked up her fam’s daughterIn a men’s prison; justice left her but her friends didn’tTrans women, allies, stand up - some punksget beat down to jump the fuck back up
(No streaming audio available)259 plays - usedtobesoclean: March Hawk goes to to toe with rap legend Jesse Dangerously. punk rock!
(No streaming audio available)67 plays - JRemix 100% created this afternoon; inspired by the INUNDATION of Pumpkin Spice everything, now available everywhere! Pumpkin spice latte, pumpkin spice coffeePumpkin spice donut yeah the pumpkin spice got meNothing like pumpkin spice, your mother might have made thosePumpkin spice glazed ham, pumpkin spice potatoesPumpkin spice stays HAM, we all cakin now we got itPumpkin spice cologne on my throat and pumpkin shower productPumpkin spice narcotic on the corner, pumpkin spice potOrange lights and siren, that’s a pumpkin spice copOn the pumpkin spice block, pumping Smashing Pumpkin tapesPumpkin spice bootlegs, smash your pumpkin’s fuckin’ legsWhatsisname? Doesn’t say - pumpkin spice on foreign foodsPumpkin eggs benedict, pumpkin spice orange juiceTurn off the boring news, what’s this guy in line for?Midnight sale at Apple Store (PUMPKIN SPICE iPHONE)Hate it then you love it, that’s the pumpkin spice romcomNaked in the pumpkin patch, pumpkin spice condom Shorty let me tell you bout my only viceGot to do with lots of pumpkins and it’s called pumpkin spice (okay) Summers over, winter’s coming, Autumn brings its cargoPumpkins on everything, like I finished Star RoadPumpkins by the carload, trunk of my ImpalaAll-seeing eye on the pumpkin spice dollar!Got a pop a lotta bottles of that pumpkin spice chardonnaySaw a lot of models in that pumpkin spice lingeriePumpkin spice tanqeray, the new orange Gatoradepumpkin spice is here to say (NO MATTER WHAT THE HATERS SAY)Pumpkin spice the flavour they can’t use and have it not sellPumpkin spice conspiracies - pumpkin spice on RoswellPumpkin spice is hot as hell, even as thermometers dropit’s like a scarecrow - you know what belong at the top! You want me to stop?No? Get that economy popping, you wanna be shopping for quantity; stock yourPumpkin product larder from the malls to mom and pop storesPistol grip pumpkin for the wars, I hope you’ve got yours Shorty let me tell you bout my only viceGot to do with lots of pumpkins and it’s called pumpkin spice (okay) On the stand under lights, something like a gonerI know my fuckin’ rights - I’m pleading pumpkin spice, your honour x 2 … might have heard it once or twice… should have took your mom’s advice… bumping Kimya Dawson’s Thunder Thighs… AOL keyword: Pumpkin Spice!!
(No streaming audio available)1254 plays - We invented the remix of the remix! My new friend King K Rule, who was a chief cog in the magnificent machinery that produced Nerd Noise Night in Toronto last month, seems to be the first person to have taken on the implicit challenge to remix “Slept Through A Landslide,” using the a capella that’s provided with the download! I really like his woozy synths, which affront and challenge the key of the song itself, and the very intentional drum patterns that flow around the rhythms of the vocals. Also he was the bad guy in Donkey Kong Country! So that’s a surprising career change for the ol’ kroc, to be honest. But a welcome one. Let’s all grab this golden banana!
(No streaming audio available)143 plays - oh we hackin up Albert King today, eh Swagberg? Tough.
(No streaming audio available)0 plays - The young grandson Nolely Nole has just blasted out a new one-off track, fueled by the incomparable M Mac (responsible for tracks by The Antiheroes, previous Nole joints, “I Tot Iann” by Lil B, and my own “Slept Through A Landslide”), and featuring my favourite member of Danny Brown’s Bruiser Brigade - DOPEHEAD. The hook is sampled from Robyn’s cover of “Cobra Style,” by that weird swedish buttrock band that featured dancehall vet Mad Cobra. So that’s automatic flavour. One of many ways in which Nolely is the Canadian Rye Rye? I can’t figure out my ultimate stance on Nole’s constant references to Chris Brown in this verse… on the one hand, he’s clowning on the dude’s bad temper and general poor conduct which I guess is appropriate… on the other hand though, some of that dude’s poor conduct is not any fun to think about, and it kind of makes me have less fun while I’m listening to this fun rap. And damn Nole, lay off Lil Mama! She looks great! Either way, though, this joint is a real swag receptacle. You will hear it leaking out of jeeps like radiator fluid all autumn if there’s any justice on the world (there isn’t).
(No streaming audio available)467 plays - Last weekend I attended the wedding of my good friend and rapping colleague More Or Les. It was a country club affair, and I was mad stressed about getting up to a level of non-bummy clothes so as to not have to be forcibly removed from the grounds. His family is Guyanese and hers is Scottish and that made it the most Torontonian thing I’ve ever been to. Anyway that was lovely but I’m posting this because his new album about food is dropping very shortly and you’re going to love it. The track I’m linking here features me, but I am far from the most exciting guest on the record - the big surprise that we’ve all been losing our ish over here at Backburner Industries is that Les & The Mighty Rhino brought in the legendary Chip-Fu of Fu-Schnickens to kick a verse and sing a hook on the song Top Chefs (Yammy). You can go stream the whole record from Soundcloud, but for right now at least peep the spot where Les very kindly invited me to kick rhymes about ice cream. Literally about ice cream.
(No streaming audio available)0 plays - This joint by Kydd & A.Dd+ makes me think of early Goodie Mob - mainly the verses; if it had sixty layers of Cee-Lo harmonies for the hook, or if it was at least barked out like Khujo, it would be a little bit more on that tip, plus they never heard of having this many hihats before like 1996 even in the south, but STILL, you hear that?? This dude is in my top 10 right now. Maybe top 5 but I’m scared of commitment.
(No streaming audio available)918 plays - mmacbeats: Gold On Everything - Nolely Nole (prod. M Mac) This is one of my favourite songs EVER.
(No streaming audio available)308 plays - jim-nightshade: cnephas: of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal this is always gonna be my favorite song I had to take a break from these guys for a few years, because of emotions related to events, but this song is absolutely killer. It’s on a whole other level from like, music. Audra and I used to listen to it on long drives in Alberta. It was on almost every mixed CD we burned, when would make two or three for trips from Edmonton to Calgary or Lethbridge and back. I think we first heard it from Said The Gramophone’s list of their favourite songs of 2007… that and Britney Spears’s “Piece Of Me” and Amerie’s “Gotta Work,” which all passed into all-time favourite territory for me. I’m still not ready to listen to “The Past Is A Grotesque Animal” again yet, but one day I will.
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BuyThis single is a remix of "Tired Angels" by Krista Muir. The beat was built by M Mac, with other musical elements contributed by Peter Project, Jeff Ngan, and me. I creatively directed the whole thing and it made me feel like a mixture of James Lavelle and Kanye West. I asked my friend and colleague of nearly 13 years, Noah 23, to rap on it with me - there was a special urgency because it was the end of 2011 and he had announced he was quitting music at the end of the year. We had tried a few times to work together before but technical & timing issues plagued our language... so this felt like my last chance. He came through, and although it makes me really sad to think of him feeling the despair that he describes in his verse, he captured it beautifully. I'm so glad that he not only did me the honour of appearing, but of killing me on my own shit. Ouch. There are many things to say about the themes and ideas in this song, but I'm not going to write them here. I've written them in a zine that's serves as a companion to the single, which also includes short fiction and memoirs and comics and illustrations and other pertinent works by friends of mine. You can order that here! For now just listen closely, and figure out what you think it all adds up to. And take care of yourself.-
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- Dec 18, 12
Look at this great new video by More or Les!!
Learn a thing or two about not only the sordid history of sugar production, but how it’s still overwhelmingly produced by exploitative means to this day… with a catchy beat you can tap along to !!
This video is directed by Joel MacLeod, shot by Jesse Cappe, and features the artwork of Shelley Miller.
Don’t forget to pick up a copy of Mastication RIGHT THIS VERY SECOND.
- Nov 16, 12
Burg & Les are each still riding high off their recent full length releases – 3rdburglar and Mastication, respectively.I know this site hasn’t had a ton of information in the last…. year…. but you can still count on the true fact that if you are in or near Toronto, you will want to come out for the rapping, the beats, the cutting (probably), and most of all… the SAVINGS offered by the monthly $5 Rap Show at Rancho Relaxo.
- Jan 18, 12
We are so excited to bring you, at long last, the 3:AM Studios-created video for “Heatwave,” from Heatwave, by Backburner!
The beat is by Timbuktu, and he raps on it along with Wordburglar, Jesse Dangerously, Chokeules, Jay Bizzy, and Thesis Sahib singing the sweet, sweet hook. I can almost guarantee that the hook will be wedged uncomfortably in your head for weeks to come, so you had better get used to liking it. Start now, it’s amazing.
In celebration of this momentous release, Hand’Solo Records will also be bringing an EP of only the very best songs from the Heatwave album to vinyl. We thought it might spruce up the selection a bit if we included an exclusive remix of the title track on the wax, but one obstacle we encountered is that we’re VERY LAZY. So we’ve decided to let you handle this one for us.
We’re having a contest, open to everyone! Grab the track elements and peruse the rules over here: Heatwave Remix Contest. The fifith-, fourth-, third-, and second-best remixes will be featured and gushed over on the Hand’Solo and Backburner websites, and the number one greatest remix will be included on the Heatwave vinyl EP this spring.
You have until February 29th! Thank goodness for leap years, eh? Go and get cracking, or at least tell that cool friend of yours who makes beats to get a move on. The vinyl is going to be a load of garbage without this hot injection of new blood. Oh my god that was a disgusting thing to say.
*I was just kidding about how we’re too lazy; there will also be another bonus cut on the vinyl that will make every other rapper on earth cry from not feeling good enough anymore. It’s mean but unavoidable, plus fun.
**I don’t know probably go read about SOPA/PIPA or Bill C-11 because it’s Black Wednesday and while we love copyright infringement and wouldn’t be able to live without the thrill of illegally appropriating protected works, not everyone should have to encounter that thrill just went they want to do some normal thing in their day that’s fine.
- Sep 07, 11
Lithium Studios in Toronto, who brought you More or Les‘s “Pop N Chips” and Timbuktu & Jorun‘s “The New Science” in ages past, has cranked up the special feelings for another Burner banger; this time the Bix-produced “Stolen Kicks,” featuring the Brooklyn underground legend once known as Pumpkinhead (now just PH).The riff on David Blaine’s Street Magic (and maybe more specifically, those YouTube parodies?) makes Socks’s eerie deadpan into a mask of determination… he will entertain you, or you will face the consequences.
This song is from Treat Of The Day, but if it gets you all riled up and excited to hear more collaborative Sockwork, you may be among the thousands of screaming fans clamouring for a bite of the Teenburger, where Socks and Timbuktu engage in lockerroom swordfight raps over endless summertime beats by Witchdoc Jorun.
Lucky for you… it’s Burgertime!!
- Sep 06, 11
On the first of September, two thousand and eleven, Backburner converged on the small village of Toronto, Ontario, and changed the way people think about such concepts as “enjoying a rap show” forever.Here are eleven performances, captured as in prehistoric amber (sorry, Jurassic Park marathon last night… don’t you think the dinosaurs should have time traveled to the old west in #3?) by the intrepid lens of Hand’Solo Recordings label head (and feet) Thomas Quinlan. You’ll be thrilled as MisterE fills in blank spaces left by several missing members! Shocked when Ghettosocks is yanked off stage by what may have been a great white shark (or just some not-so-great white dudes) and relieved when he emerges unscathed… on the surface.
Dumbfounded as Thesis Sahib, Chokeules, SJ the Wordburglar, rap legend Jesse Dangerously, More or Les and Timbuktu use their faces to punch the face of the soul of hip-hop… forever.Or at least I hope you like it a little bit?
Tomorrow is the grand release of Ghettosocks’s new video for “Stolen Kicks,” co-starring PH (f/k/a Pumpkinhead) and a few very special pairs of athletic shoes!Coming soon, but I’m not sure how soon, is the internet premiere of More or Les’s new video for “I Ain’t Goin’ Out.” It has about a bazillion cameos from Backburner and friends of Backburner, and the long-awaited return of Hal Johnson. In spirit, anyway.
- Aug 30, 11
The long wait has ended.
HEATWAVE is here.
This little bandcamp player is ready for you to bump every track for free, and then go buy the download for five tiny dollars, or the physical CD for $8.99.
We’re all on it, you guys!
A great many of us are going to be in Toronto and London to launch the album this week, too.
On Thursday, September 1st, we’ll be playing in Toronto at Rancho Relaxo, 300 College Street.
On Saturday, September 3rd, we’ll be playing in London at The Black Shire, 511 Talbot Street.
At both shows, the cost of admission includes a copy of the CD!!So what are you going to do, now that your life is perfect? Oh yeah… BUMP DOPE RAPS FOREVER.
- Aug 07, 11
You remember Chokeules‘s lovely album from 2009, Hypergraphia? All of a sudden, he has a dope video for sleeper hit, “Blind Boy Choke.”Timbuktu produced it, Uncle Fester on the cuts.
Don’t you love it!?
- Jul 12, 11
You have been chilled to your bones, and we have heard your moans for warmth.
This may be on some “be careful what you wish for” ish, though.
Backburner’s HEATWAVE is coming to a face near your face for September 1st, especially if your face is a face near Toronto, Ontario – a release show that night at Rancho Relaxo (300 College Street) will feature captains among a team of captains: Jesse Dangerously, Thesis Sahib, Timbuktu, Chokeules, SJ the Wordburglar, More or Les and more TBA!??
Believe the hype. Unless the hype is negative, in which case believe ME when I say HOLY SHIT RAP ITSELF JUST GOT SLIGHTLY BETTER FOREVER.
(Oh yeah hey also listen friends – thank you SO MUCH to everyone who chipped in on the “HEATWAVE” video shoot fund. Shooting has been postponed to the first week of August due to logistical boondoggles (YEAH I SAID IT) endemic to a crew of this breadth and girth, but it is happening and it is amazing. And YOU MADE IT HAPPEN. And YOU WILL GET PRESENTS!!)
- Jun 27, 11
Friends of the Burner, we don’t like to think of this a problem, but an opportunity.
To begin with, let’s take a listen to a quick preview of the lead single “HEATWAVE,” from the Backburner group album HEATWAVE coming to a face near you this summer.
So did you peep the little scrolly at the bottom of that otherwise very placid video clip? We’re about to make a video for “HEATWAVE,” and we’ll do it with or without your help! YOU’RE NOT OUR DAD.
Look, forget what I was about to say about money. Here’s a better idea. Don’t you love RAP?
Don’t you love BACKBURNER?
We have some special treats for you. Think of it as a blow-out sale, with some guy called CRAZY EDDY in the commercial and no-one believe how CRAZY he is for these prices.
- For One Dollar, you get the MP3 download of this ridiculous song “HEATWAVE” featuring Thesis Sahib, Timbuktu, Wordburglar, Chokeules, Jay Bizzy and Jesse Dangerously cranking out a summer jam for the ages. Every second the thermostat is above 24 and you aren’t banging out this jammy, your heart cries piteously… and you may not even know it.
- For Ten Dollars, you preorder the whole HEATWAVE album to be downloaded the MOMENT it is released to the public officially, some time in August.
- For Fifteen Dollars, you preorder both the download AND a physical CD copy to keep in your glove compartment forever, next to license, registration, and condoms (yeah Will.I.Am we keep domes in the whip… sorry u gotta hoof it).
- For Thirty Dollars, you can have the Toolshed Starter Kit! It consists of Toolshed’s most recent group album, The Lost, and Timbuktu and Chokeules’s solo albums, Stranger Danger and Hypergraphia, respectively! Also the Backburner album preorder.
- For Forty Dollars, you get Before The End, Thesis Sahib’s gorgeous full-colour art book and 16-track album with 7″ vinyl insert. Ordinarily the book/album/download/vinyl/party is $45 plus shipping, so this is like STEALING. In the fun way! Also you get the Backburner album preorder.
- For Fifty Dollars, you may make the gut-churningly difficult decision between receiving the Wordburglar Starter Kit or the Jesse Dangerously starter kit. WB’s includes his vinyl-only EP from 2005 featuring exclusive remixes and b-sides, one copy each of Burglaritis and Burgie’s Basement, and oh Jesus a t-shirt and a Snakor’s Pizza comic book authored by young Burg (not to be confused with rapper Young Berg) himself.
But the Jesse D kit is enticing to a similar extent!! You get his new album/chapbook, Humble & Brilliant, his last two albums on CD, a 7″ vinyl featuring two songs by Jesse with Thesis Sahib and MC Frank Deluxe, a Jesse Dangerously t-shirt designed by Thesis Sahib, and an actual cassette tape of unreleased b-sides, demos, and collaborations. OH HOLY SHIT. - If you are a super duper wild Jesse Dangerously fan, then fifty dollars could get you the very last last ever final last physical CD copy for sale ever of either Eastern Canadian World Tour 2002, or How To Express Your Dissenting Political Viewpoint Through Origami. It is very steep, but you know it is a WISE INVESTMENT like a BEANIE BABY with a HEART-SHAPED PLASTIC TY TAG PROTECTOR.
- For Two Hundred Dollars, we have a prize tailored to the rapper or producer out there in the world who has everything…. everything, that is, except one of Canada’s dopest MCs spitting a hot verse on his or her track. You can pick between Chokeules, Jay Bizzy, Jesse Dangerously, More Or Les (who isn’t even on this song, but generously threw in anyway!), Thesis Sahib, or SJ the Wordburglar!! It’s a bargain at half the price.
- For Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars, you get the motherlode: The Backburner Starter Kit. It consists of one of everything in each of the other starter kits listed above, PLUS The Ghost of Jacob Marley by Jay Bizzy, Wartime Theme Songs For The Modern Ego by Thesis Sahib, Fuck by Les Swashbuckling Napoleons (Thesis & Bleubird), Brunch With A Vengeance by More or Les, the Hand’solo Records mixtape Hokey Religions & Ancient Weapons, and a DVD with the old Wordburglar video on it THAT WE DAMN SURE ARE NOT LETTING ANYONE SEE FOR ANY OTHER REASON THAN THIS.
- For Three Hundred Dollars, you insanely can have an original 12″x12″ painting by art star Thesis Sahib. This is real art for joke art prices. I almost could kind of cry just letting it go for a price that minuscule. You are robbing us blind here. I kind of thought you would be cooler than that.
JOKES YOU’RE SUPER COOL!!!!!!
This is where you go to do any or all of that:
- May 30, 11
You can almost smell the record shop must (musk?) on this digital 12″ from Hand’solo Records! A stand-out track from Toolshed’s recent album, The Lost, “Irish Car Bomb pt.2″ is now packaged with a clean edit, an a capella (REMIXERS!! MASHERS-UP!!), a remix by Savilion and another remix of album track “Flavour Saviours.” Most Canadian spellings possible in two words.Grab it for free below, or even just bump it off the embedded player. Why the shit not? Tell your friends!!
