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The Canadian hip hop scene was established in the 1980s. Through a variety of factors, it developed much slower than Canada's popular rock music scene, and apart from a short-lived burst of mainstream popularity from 1989 to 1991, it remained largely an underground phenomenon until the early 2000s.
Dubmatique is a French Canadian hip hop group formed in the 1990s in Montreal, Quebec.Groupmates Dj Choice, OTMC, and Jérôme-Philippe are the first French-language hip-hop group from Canada to have a number one hit single on the francophone pop charts.
Northside Hip Hop Archive (NSHHA) is a digital archive of Canadian hip hop culture from the 1980s and 1990s. NSHHA aims to preserve cultural artifacts from the pioneering years of the Canadian hip hop scene.
Too Bad to Be True, or TBTBT, was a Canadian hip hop group, based in Toronto, Ontario, active in the 1990s. [1] They were best known for their 1993 album One Track Mind, which won the Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year at the 1994 Juno Awards. [2]
Citizen Kane was a Canadian hip hop duo, active in the late 1990s and early 2000s. [1] They were most noted as two-time Juno Award nominees for Rap Recording of the Year, for their EP The Epic at the Juno Awards of 1999 [2] and their album Deliverance at the Juno Awards of 2000.
Canadian hip-hop breakdancers (aka breaking) & Hip hop dancers, as well as hip-hop acts with more than one member: duos, crews and collectives, go here. B-Boys & B-Girls were an integral part of Hip-hop crews – often hyping up the crowd, vocally backing up the DJ, etc. Arranged by first name/initial.
Hip Club Groove was a Canadian hip hop band, active in the 1990s. Originally from Truro , Nova Scotia and later based in Halifax , the band consisted of rappers Derek "MC" Mackenzie and Cory "Cheklove Shakil" Bowles , [ 1 ] and DJ Brian "DJ Moves" Higgins.
The song garnered radio airplay throughout North America, becoming Canadian hip hop's first hit song since 1991. Although the song just barely missed the national Top 40 charts, peaking at #41 in RPM , it reached the Top 10 in most major markets, and was the first Canadian hip hop song to reach the Top 100 at all, and the first to garner ...