Kardinal Offishall on Canadian Rap, Drake and Soca | Red Bull Music Academy

► Subscribe to Red Bull Music Academy: https://win.gs/SubscribeRBMA For decades, Toronto hip-hop fans have understood their own sound: a hybrid of east coast boom bap and west coast melodies with an aesthetic style and cadence derived from the Caribbean. Rapper and producer Kardinal Offishall wasn’t the first from the city to come up with this, but he did perfect it. In doing so, he established Canada’s inaugural contribution to hip-hop’s canon of regional sounds. In his 2016 Red Bull Music Academy lecture, Kardinal discusses Montréal’s hip-hop scene, the impact Canadian artists have had on American music, his career, and more. ► https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/l... #KardinalOffishall #HipHop #RedBullMusicAcademy __________________________ TOPICS: 4:10 - West Indians in Toronto 27:48 - The northern touch 50:12 - Bounty Killer 55:55 - Drake 59:17 - Soca music 1:24:55 - Hip-hop gatekeepers Kardi’s ingenuity won him awards and the respect of his American peers and it gave aspiring musicians leverage to leap over the structural limitations of the local industry, and express themselves as defiantly Canadian — no matter where their families originate. The Red Bull Music Academy is a global music institution committed to fostering creativity in music. We celebrate music, its culture, and the transformative minds behind it. Begun in 1998, the Academy has taken the core principles that underlie its annual workshop for selected participants and applied this curatorial approach to events, lectures, and city-wide festivals throughout the year. ► Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://win.gs/SubscribeRBMA ► Visit our official website: http://win.gs/avjLrK ► Our latest videos on YouTube: http://bit.ly/12nkX7h ► Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/Lx4wQy ► Like us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/12N5Ch0