Yes! A new album from K-os will be released April 14. But before that LP, Yes! - the genre-smashing rapper's first since 2006's Atlantis: Hymns for Disco -- took shape, K-os was caught in the middle of a few things.
For one, he was stuck between labels. After nearly a decade with EMI, he decided it was time to try a new direction -- one that included putting his music out on his own imprint, Crown Loyalist Recordings, which he's now doing through a new relationship with Universal.
Moreover, he was caught between cities. "I've been dating Vancouver for 10 years," he says over the phone from the west coast after our call wakes him on a post-Junos morning. (OK, the Junos wrapped up two days before, but as K-os explains, he's still resting up after a weekend spent with friends like double-winners The Stills).
Since making his breakthrough 2002 album Exit - a disc that had Billboard proclaiming it "one of the finest hip-hop records Canada has ever produced" - K-os has found himself drawn back to Vancouver. He waxes nostalgic about crashing nightly on friends' couches and floors during his Exit days. His band still hails from the city. Still, there's no denying he's a Toronto institution. It's ingrained in his lyrics: from instantly recognizable phrases like "walking down Yonge St. on a Friday" (from ubiquitous 2005 hit "Crabbuckit") to peripherally rhyming about the TTC on the new disc. Read more...
By Leah Collins
via Dose.ca
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