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***Every now and again, a hip-hop artist emerges and threatens to take the music from its growing commercial context, back to its essence. Enter 20-year-old rapper/producer CADENCE WEAPON (aka ROLLIE PEMBERTON) hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, son of a Brooklyn DJ, nephew of a funk musician, and child of fresh music. Following massive grassroots support for his independent mixtape, Cadence Weapon Is the Black Hand (2005), Pemberton returns with a more focused sound on Breaking Kayfabe. Breaking Kayfabe is an impossibly accomplished hip-hop album with clever songwriting and impressive rhymes paired with the electro-tones of UK grime and West Coast hip hop. Cadence Weapon is developing into a producer in demandnremixes include Lady Sovereign iBlah Blah Blahi (Def Jam), iDo They Know Itis Halloweeni (Vice), Disco D iHug It Outi (Vice) Fluxblog, Coke Machine Glow, and Stylus. |