“Everyone is into hip-hop which is cool, but we all come from different backgrounds where North-America slowly robs us of our culture, so as an artist, using music is one of the most powerful tools of influence to shift the culture back to our roots and where it all started.” – SM. SM, a new emerging artist born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario in the South end of Greenboro just launched his career following some heavy soul-searching. Music has always been a big part of SM’s life and took it seriously as of 2014 but took a break to find…
Author: Jhamesha Milord Ashford
Twelve of Ottawa’s hottest artists came together and dropped the track “All Capital Anthem” to honor the city. The twelve artists coming together include; OTG Stiffy, DaBoiLoc, AGS Smooth, Dip Black on the first verse. Frank Blak, Baëbe Ruth, Nino, and KG Jay hopped on the second verse before passing the baton to Mazyn, Gabona, Snoozy and Rhi Da Baddie for the grand finale. On top of his powerful delivery and captivating energy, Rapper KG Jay also contributed as the producer of the track. When reached out to work on this collaboration, Dip Black, a featured artist on the track…
A year into the pandemic, Drayton Mulindabigwi Jabo, a health sciences student at the University of Ottawa decided to launch the mental health initiative, 20today20tomorrow. Realizing all the drastic changes that he was faced with, Drayton took it upon himself to create an organization based on helping others feel better in times of distress. The organization created a mascot named “Healmind/Gueriesprit” that has been drawn on stickers. The stickers are then placed in spots frequently visited by youth, such as schools, malls, busses, etc. Each sticker has also been infused with NFC technology that broadcast positive messages on your screen…
Ottawa entertainment service “LOCKS” is hosting a 3v3 basketball tournament to raise funds for the Locks Cares Fund. The Locks Cares Fund, in partnership with the Black Market Creative Agency, is raising funds in support of newcomer families settling into Canada. The event will take place on August 28th at Fisher Park Courts on 250 Holland avenue, from 2pm until 10pm. There will be limited spots with a maximum of 175 people allowed to attend so make sure not to be fashionably late. Artists including Lia Kloud, City Fidelia and Lvnce Lorenzo will be performing live, with local merchants around to…
A petition calling for his cancellation is circulating but according to Jhamesha Milord Ashford, though problematic, there’s no need to cancel Kevin Samuels. Kevin Samuels is a self-appointed image consultant and lifestyle coach with over 1.08 million subscribers on YouTube. Nevertheless, over 16,200 people have signed an online petition asking to cancel Kevin Samuels. Even though I can agree that cancel culture can be toxic at times, I want to ask our readers if people should really be taking relationship advice from a guy on the internet who has already been divorced twice. I don’t think we should cancel him, but…
