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Features: Live Canadian Rap

This is our archive of classic Canadian Hip Hop performances. If you used to bring a video camera to rap shows back in the day and have some old footage you’d like to share, please contact us.

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Lonesome Charlies

Lonesome Charlies

Lonesome Charlies consisted of emcee Vizion (who went by I-Tel at the time) and a crew of bboys, one of whom also did backups and played the melodica. This footage (previously featured on UGSMAG back in 2001)...

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Frek Sho – “Patience”

Frek Sho – “Patience”

Live from 2002, a slightly different version of Frek Sho's 1996 classic single "Patience" (Ismaila flipped his lyrics, Kutdown is on the cuts and there's no Gumball or Sunil).

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Buck 65 – “Square Two (Songs 1 & 2)”

Buck 65 – “Square Two (Songs 1 & 2)”

Edmonton, Some Bar? (2002) Buck 65 video from his album Square. Buck did well to put up with a 2 ft mic cord, smoke machine, and the drunk heckler who was going off all night.

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Pip Skid & Epic – “All up in this piece”

Pip Skid & Epic – “All up in this piece”

Saskatoon, Airliner Dance Hall (2001) Video of Pip Skid & Epic's "All up in this piece" from Pipi's Friends4Ever album.

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YBIMBP – “Seasons”

YBIMBP – “Seasons”

Saskatoon, Airliner Dance Hall (2001) Your Brother In My Back Pack, featuring members Yy & The Gumshoe Strut from their Milch & Allegra EP, with John Smith doing backups and DJ Hunnicutt on the one-and-twos.