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Cadence Weapon And Buck 65 Battle The Hall

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) April 28, 2008 3:00 pm
Something funny happened leading up to Friday night's hip-hop double-bill. Every time anybody was told that Buck 65 and Cadence Weapon were performing at The Music Hall, the immediate response was, "Really?" Standing in the building before the latter hit the stage, I found myself wondering the same thing. Besides the massive cityscape...
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Cadence Weapon — Afterparty Babies

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) March 4, 2008 7:43 pm
When Rollie Pemberton said last year that Afterparty Babies would be a "party record," he wasn't selling it short. Cadence Weapon's sophomore effort is a DJ night you can play in your ears. After the bittersweet opener, "Do I Miss My Friends," the LP immediately kicks into high gear with "In Search Of The Youth Crew,...
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Cadence Weapon @ CMW 2007

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By Matt Littlefair (CHARTattack) March 10, 2007 1:00 pm
Background/Composition: It's just Cadence Weapon and DJ Weasel, but you don't needanything else when you've got Weasel's clever beats and Rollie Pemberton's lyrical assault. Grade: 96 Comment: I don't know if I'll see anthing this weekend that'll top this, and it's probably better that I not think about it. Cadence Weapon's syntactic...
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Lady Sovereign Makes The Entire Crowd Berserk

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By James Simons (CHARTattack) October 25, 2006 3:00 pm
The Brits have always fed us the extremes of class and crass, which means that for every James Bond and Lynn Belvedere that gracefully hops the pond, we get a Johnny Rotten and a Vicky Pollard. Clearly, vertically challenged rapper Lady Sovereign fits into the latter category, a fact she acknowledged during her awesome Oct. 24 show at...
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Kool Keith Pulls All His Personas Out Of The Bag

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By Vish Khanna (CHARTattack) October 6, 2006 4:00 pm
A bona fide legend and a superstar on the rise helmed a dream double-bill at an unlikely but burgeoning hip-hop venue in Hamilton on Thursday night. Still reeling from KRS-One's appearance earlier in the week, the Pepper Jack Cafe ended up being the perfect venue to watch Edmonton's Cadence Weapon warm up an expectant crowd, who shifted nervously...
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Islands And Architecture In Helsinki Heat Up Long Weekend

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) May 23, 2006 4:00 pm
There's little more disappointing than finding out that two of the best acts on your five-act bill have somehow not made it past border officials in the U.S. — especially when both are Canadian (long story). This was the case on Friday night as Sunset Rubdown and Frog Eyes were trapped in Chicago and, thus, unable to perform as a part of the...
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Cadence Weapon @ CMW 2006

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By Shannon Whibbs (CHARTattack) March 4, 2006 1:30 pm
Hometown: Edmonton, AB Venue: Silver Dollar Date: March 3, 2005 Reporter:  Background/Composition: An edgy rapper with messages and production worth listening to. Grade: 92 Comment: You can say you don't like hip-hop, but I challenge you to check out Rollie Pemberton's (a.k.a. Cadence Weapon) live...
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Cadence Weapon — Breaking Kayfabe

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By Matt Semansky (CHARTattack) December 6, 2005 3:16 pm
Wielding a Canadian-accented delivery and a penchant for video game-style synth beats, Edmonton's Cadence Weapon unleashes one of the year's most unusual and satisfying hip-hop records. Tracks such as hometown shout-out "Oliver Square" lurch along at a pace reminiscent of Houston's chop-and-screwers, but thankfully, Cadence Weapon's...
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Cadence Weapon Releases TRON: Legacy Mixtape

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 25, 2010 12:34 pm
You know how you heard Daft Punk were doing the soundtrack for TRON: Legacy. Turns out they weren't. Cadence Weapon was. Just kidding! But at any rate, the Edmonton rapper's just released a pay-what-you-want mixtape all about TRON: Legacy, and you can get it through his website right now. The 40-minute mix features Cadence Weapon (real name Rollie...
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I Read The News Today... For July 5, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff July 5, 2010 12:10 pm
Lady Gaga wants Marilyn Manson to guest on her next album. It sounds weird, but it isn't. It's appropriately freaky. —MTV News Kids, let Drake teach you something about how to treat your mom: When she has surgery, you cancel all your plans. Family first. —CBC News David Bowie's Station To Station will get a deluxe reissue. —Consequence Of...
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Cadence Weapon @ CMW 2010

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By Siobhan Ozege (CHARTattack) March 12, 2010 12:22 pm
Background/Composition: Cadence Weapon saw a lot of popularity when he first burst onto the music scene a few years back. Since then, the number of artists in his genre have more than tripled, leaving him shadowed by Canadian favourites like K'Naan, K-OS, etc. Grade: 69 Comment: It's been a while since we've seen Cadence Weapon out and about...
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Shout Out Out Out Out Featuring Cadence Weapon — "Coming Home"

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By CHARTattack Staff November 9, 2009 4:20 pm
Here's Shout Out Out Out Out's video for Reintegration Time's "Coming Home," which features fellow Edmontonian Cadence Weapon. Basically, it's full of tons of flames and explosions courtesy an out of control electrical fire (oh, and special effects). Reintegration Time is out now.
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Governor General Praises Cadence Weapon, Edmonton

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 5, 2009 10:34 am
Governor General Michaelle Jean has applauded Edmonton for naming Cadence Weapon their poet laureate. Jean was in Edmonton last week, where she gave a speech about hip-hop and the arts and how she said they can be used to promote "peace and solidarity in our communities." She's been hosting "Youth Dialogues" across Canada to...
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Pumping: Cadence Weapon - Breaking Kayfabe

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) June 12, 2009 1:49 pm
It's been a few years and everyone seems off the Cadence Weapon bandwagon, but this album actually seems to hold up really well. "Oliver Square" and "Black Hand" and a couple of the others are still crazy, timeless futurebeat what-the-fuck? songs all coupled with the incredibly rare ability to romanticize Edmonton. I know,...
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Cadence Weapon Is Edmonton's Poet Laureate

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By CHARTattack Staff May 26, 2009 1:25 pm
Rapping about getting drunk in Oliver Square apparently has its benefits. Roland Pemberton will become Edmonton's poet laureate on July 1. That sounds so official. Let's try this instead: Cadence Weapon will be droppin' city-sanctioned slang this summer. Pemberton, a lifelong Edmontonian who raps under the name Cadence Weapon, was...
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PWYC For Cadence Weapon Mix Tape

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By CHARTattack Staff January 20, 2009 3:25 pm
Cadence Weapon has a new "mix tape" called Separation Anxiety available to download from his website, and you get to decide how much you'll pay for it. Any amount will let you download all 20 tracks as high-quality MP3 files. "It's a weird thing I decided to do," the man also known as Rollie Pemberton said in a Canadian Press...
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Cadence Weapon Fans Should Be Ashamed

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 8, 2009 11:11 am
You only have about 29 hours left to vote in our 14th annual year-end readers' poll before it closes Friday at 5 p.m. Some of you have already voted your little hearts out and spammed our site with comments. But there are certain people who should be ashamed of themselves, like fans of these artists: Cadence Weapon, Beast, Black Lungs, Dandi...
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Cadence Weapon's Canadian Tour

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 8, 2008 1:33 pm
Cadence Weapon has played the Lollapalooza, Glastonbury and Roskilde festivals and toured the world in support of his Afterparty Babies sophomore album over the past year. The man born Rollie Pemberton isn't slowing down, however, and will embark on his first headlining Canadian tour in the fall. Cadence Weapon recently recorded a mixtape that...
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