Secrets of the City

As first reported on this thread….

I blame all the hipsters who only act as though they like Atmosphere in order to show how ‘hip’ they are to ‘black’ culture.

/sarcasm

On my last business trip to Canada I got detained at Toronto customs because I didn’t have a work permit. Even though I’d previously been to Montreal for the exact same thing and didn’t need a work permit. Then I got an awesome explanation of NAFTA from a friendly Canadian border enforcement dude. He also gave me a survey to fill out and said, “I think it’s kind of stupid because we give these to people we deport as well and it’s not like they’re going to be happy with their service.”

Hee!

Wonder why they were detained.

I believe that this is in direct violation of NAFTA. The Canadians are not allowing the import of American Hip-hop acts to protect their domestic hip-hop industry. Snow, Buck 65 and Dubmatique have received unfair trade protections for too long. This needs to go to the wto arbitration board.

Got to hand it to the Canadians on their politeness!

Snow! You referenced Snow in a thread!

(Standing Ovation)

Lunch deserves a few points for being able to extemporaneously name three Canandian hip-hop acts.

My old roommate Peter and I once planned to start a Canadian-themed hip-hop act (he was MC Poutine, I was the Vancuouva Killa), where we’d rap over a sample of the “As It Happens” theme. Too bad it never came to fruition.

Except for Quebec. That place is full of assholes. Including the assholes who lost my gatechecked bag and then insisted they didn’t have my bag until my boss went and spoke to them in Canadian.

Because he’s Canadian.

There was this girl on my ultimate frisbee team in college who actually knew all the words to Informer. It was the craziest thing ever. Although, now that I think about it, I wouldn’t really know if she didn’t.

I knew a few Quebecois in my younger days, and they were heavily into Francophone hip hop. Dubmatique is the only Canadien group that I remember from that era. Hip hop in French is noxious…

The mid-1990s were known as “the fallow years.”

Dark times.

Wow, Canadian artists are truly under seige these days, as this story also reports. (Soon things’ll almost be as bad for them http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2008/04/21/daily13.html” target=”_blank”>as for American artists.)

When KD Lang and Celeste Dion teamed up to do the Rap Hits of William Shatner, it was all downhill from there.

Even though I grew up in a border town, I’m no expert on the subject of Canadian Hip Hop. But I can tell you for certain that the linked Wikipedia entry left out the single most important Canadian Hip Hop Artist.

that video is a Canuck Rickroll if there ever was one.

Are you sure it’s not just a list of living Canadian hip-hopers?

I wonder if any of them have a DUI?

I know someone last week that had to change their honeymoon plans due to an 8 year old DUI. Canada considers a DUI to be a felony and thus no entry.

I’ve heard Celine Dion is quite the beat-boxer. Seriously.

Canada is certainly for the better.