What's up guys this is Nav.
I'm here at Genius about to film the Cosign and I’m gonna see how I feel about these
new Canadian artists.
The new Toronto scene music is just ... It's not like a safe kind of music.
I feel like before when we were growing up whoever they presented as hip-hop artists
was kind of a safe bet that we could show the rest of the world whereas now it's just
like ... We're just us, you know what I mean?
We have our own identity.
I don't wanna fall victim to the stereotype that Canadian artists don't pick each other
up.
So that's why if I like someone I just show them love, show them support.
I don't care where you're from.
What neighborhood, it doesn't matter.
His energy’s right.
I like his energy.
No the beat selection's crazy.
Like I don't think I've ever heard a Toronto artist on a beat like this.
Yeah, I like this, good energy.
You can tell he's ready to be a rapper.
I like Lil Berete because ... I don't know ... his energy and his dance moves and stuff
was dope.
He has more confidence than I have.
Straight up.
He’s dope.
He could be something.
Are those tampons?
She definitely has the look, I mean.
I don't know if I really feel the song, but the tampon thing got my attention for sure.
And then there's period blood.
That's nice.
Yep smear it, that's nice.
That's dope.
Now she’s nutting champagne.
All right.
That was weird.
I can tell she went to school for directing or film or whatever because
I can tell that she picked the scene for herself
where she's laying in the tampons.
She's got a Katy Perry vibe to her, you know?
She could be something.
It's just not my cup of tea.
Nah, I can't.
Nah.
I just can't.
This is like...Come on, bro.
This is corny.
Ain't this the guy that said sorry to Tory Lanez or something?
He looks so familiar.
Yeah, it is.
He’s crying over a girl that left him for another dude.
But you’re an artist bro.
Go get another one!
I think he should've saved his passion for something else and not that girl and this
song.
Yeah that was just weird.
Like, I’m not into the song, not into the whole message and the corny beginning and stuff.
Oh, Amiri’d up, yeah I like that.
Yeah, he’s drippin’!
A couple things I like about this guy is a lot
of guys in Toronto that are rapping from the hood and stuff like that, they just put auto-tune
on, they don't know really how to hit the note.
And he's really always melodically tight.
You don't really hear his auto-tune go off.
He doesn't sound like a Toronto man.
You know what I mean?
He doesn't have that thick Toronto accent like, "Yo, fam", that whole shit.
You can't really hear it in his stuff.
That's why I like it more.
I like Houdini.
Houdini could go someplace as long as he stays out of trouble.
What he's saying is kinda hypocritical because of the way he looks.
Oh, he's trying to spit a message-message right now.
He's really angry.
You're gonna listen to this song on the way to work or in the club?
It's not my cup of tea.
I don't really like ... you know ... this style of rap either.
It sounds like when Eminem tried to come back.
His words are too articulated for me.
It looks good.
I mean, if you put a different song, a different vibe to it, maybe it'd be cooler.
But the video is very professional.
It looks dope.
Thank God I’m high right now.
This is so much funner.
That's around my neighborhood.
Close to my mom's house.
This is probably the best music I heard from this neighborhood.
And you can't really say he's not rapping about his real life because ... people
from Toronto be knowin’ about these guys.
He has the potential to become big one day, as long as he gets the right song.
And in this song you could tell he knows ... just like I said ... he knows how to use the auto-tune
properly.
Just those basic things.
If you have those basic things you could build on it.
I’ve never heard of him but I like it.
It’s dope.
The rappers were the ones I liked the most.
Lil Berete, Houdini and Pilla B. So all the rap ... real ... you know?
Street rappers, I like them all.
All those artists were fire.
I'm actually pretty, pretty proud of them to be honest, I'm not gonna lie.
After watching all these videos the rapper who gets my cosign is Houdini.
Just 'cause he's probably the only one out of these videos that I have one of his songs
in my rotation and I just like his style and everything is dope.
Yeah it’s authentic.
Nothing fake about this.
It’s that whole like, dark sound that came about when Abel and Drake popped off and all
the other artists after them.
I kinda feel like that’s more in touch with Toronto culture than the stuff that was presented
when I was a kid.