Posts in category Music

New York-based turntable group the X-ecutioners were among the first all-DJ outfits to sign a recording contract, and the first to release a full-length album focusing on the art of turntable tricknology.

Jimmy Cliff is definitely not slowing down. He is now embarking on Act Two of an incredible career. The singer/songwriter, actor and screen writer still believes his best work is yet to come.

Hill isn’t the only artist who had enough of the facade and the fluff. History has shown how myopic the media can be when entertainers try to make music they can live with.

Three years after releasing the 2-CD sophomore, “Wu Tang Forever”, WORD caught up with the elusive RZA. The most challenging aspect in reuniting the members was not egos which RZA brushes off as “comin’ and goin’ in and out the door like clothes”, but T-I-M-E.

Hill is arguably the most commercially successful African-Canadian artist ever. International sales of his recordings have exceeded 100 million, and he has scored multiple hit singles, platinum albums, five Junos and a Grammy award.

The Grammy nominated indie soul/singer songwriter Eric Roberson known as Erro to his fans is on a roll with his music career.  He’s arguably the best soul artist some mainstream music fans have never heard of even though you’ve heard his songs sung by others.

BACK PACK BLING Though titled after the true story of him leaving school after one year of post-secondary studies and reaching super-producer status, Kanye is …

One thing that has remained the same is that we have always been surprised by Outkast. The double cd, though different from what we have come to crave from the ‘Kast, is dope.

WORD had a chance to talk to De La Soul on a tour stop in Toronto to get some answers about their label situation, and to get some idea of what it means to still be in the majors after nearly a decade and a half.