Shad on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

M.I.A. and Salman Rushdie on The Hour

During my first quarter at UC Santa Cruz I wrote my final paper for an Indian Diaspora Through Film course on M.I.A. (just before Arular was released) and Salman Rushdie as examples of diasporic art and its impact on a larger society. Seeing each of[...]

Shad - Brother (Watching) (video)

This is my ish right now and since I’m going to play it on Sound Session tonight, I thought I’d post up the video.  Yeah, I’m late on it, but sometimes it takes a second for international hip-hop to catch on in the States.  Shad is dope[...]

20 QUESTIONS WITH SHAD KABANGO

Introducing Juno Award Nominee for Rap Recoding of the Year(2008), Shad Kabango. Born in Kenya and raised in Ontario Shad is setting the bar high for other hip hop artist. Not only is he a Juno and Polaris Music Prize Nominee for his album The Old Prince, he is also[...]

Shad at the alt.sessions

Shad and DJ Teelo performed at Sonic Boom, a big Toronto record store for alt. sessions.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, alt. sessions is a Canadian TV show that basically follows artists around and captures them performing some signature tracks in different settings. It[...]

Shad - Fresh Prince Parody!

There are very few rappers to get excited about these days. Shad is one of them. The London, Ontario native just released a hilarious video for his latest single “The Old Prince Still Lives at Home”. The video, produced by Hot Dog Garbage, is a detailed parody of the opening[...]