Author: SHIFTER Staff

In SHIFTER’s Best of 2025, our journalist roundtable, including Golden Globe Awards and Critics Choice Awards voters, and Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-Approved Critics, has named The Bear as SHIFTER’s Best TV Series. Our process included a first round where our participating journalists completed a form where they could nominate the potential nominees. From the nomination form, a final voting form was created where our participating journalists voted on the winners from the list of nominees. The journalists completed the forms individually and were not able to see the other journalists’ answers. Finalists: The Bear, Severance, The Studio, Abbott Elementary, The Diplomat…

In SHIFTER’s Best of 2025, our journalist roundtable has named the Clipse album “Let God Sort Em Out” as SHIFTER’s Album of the Year. Our process included a first round where our participating journalists completed a form where they could nominate the potential nominees. From the nomination form, a final voting form was created where our participating journalists voted on the winners from the list of nominees. The journalists completed the forms individually and were not able to see the other journalists’ answers. Finalists: Let God Sort Em Out (Clipse), DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (Bad Bunny), The Art of Loving…

In SHIFTER’s Best of 2025, our journalist roundtable, including Golden Globe Awards and Critics Choice Awards voters, and Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-Approved Critics, has named Ryan Coogler’s Sinners as SHIFTER’s Movie of the Year. Our process included a first round where our participating journalists completed a form where they could nominate the potential nominees. From the nomination form, a final voting form was created where our participating journalists voted on the winners from the list of nominees. The journalists completed the forms individually and were not able to see the other journalists’ answers. Ryan Coogler has an impressive list of box…

Miami-based Hey Samyr enlists actor and comedian turned artist, Deray Davis, for his new genre-bending second single “RAIN”. After making noise with his debut single “MOON” featuring NBA champion turned artist, Iman Shumpert, Miami-based Canadian artist and producer, Hey Samyr, returns with his new single “RAIN”. And as the title suggests, things are getting a little wet and wild. The release is a sexy genre-bending track which combines hip-hop elements with R&B soul as Hey Samyr hits a velvet-smooth falsetto. “‘RAIN’ is about real emotions—desire, vulnerability, confidence—and finding power in all of it”. -Hey Samyr The songs also comes with…

“People On The Move” takes a look at people moving on to new and exciting roles in our community and culture. Next on the move is Toronto native, Kevin Wilson, who joins the Los Angeles Lakers as their new Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach after moving on from his role as Athletic Performance Coach/Human and Player Performance with the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder. It was only two ago that we shared the news of Toronto native, Kevin Wilson, joining the performance staff for the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder after a stints with the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) and the…

After Kendrick Lamar got the internet buzzing with “Euphoria” and “6:16 in LA”, Drizzy reponded. Here’s a look at Family Matters by Drake. Earlier today, Kendrick Lamar had the internet and social media buzzing with the release of his Drake diss track “6:16 in L.A.” He took a page out of the Drake playbook, dropping two tracks back to back. After he went silent and fans wondered when Kdot would respond, he clapped back at Drake with “Euphoria”, a show that depicts the sexualization of teenagers. On the two songs, Kendrick criticizes Drake’s choices in women, him not really being…

A week after the Migos start reemerged with “Himonthy”, Quavo and Rich The Kid reunite for their new single “Real One”. Seven months after releasing his second solo studio album Rocket Power, it appears (maybe former) Migos member, Quavo, might be in album mode once again. Two weeks after releasing the single and music video “Himothy”, which has over two million streams on Spotify and almost two million streams on YouTube, Quavo is back with “Real One”, The song sees Huncho reunite with fellow Atlanta artist, former Quality Control labelmater, and previous Migos collaborator, Rich The Kid. They previously collaborated…

Romeo Don’t Die teams up with fellow Montreal-based M-Press Live for his new drill single “No Sleep Freestyle”. Montreal-based artist Romeo Don’t Die has generated buzz in recent years with songs like “ACCESSIBLE” featuring Shreez and “Boom Boom Boom”. Now the Ottawa native is back with “No Sleep Freestyle” featuring Montreal’s M-Press Live, a follow up his 2023 single “Lonely” featuring fellow Ottawa native City Fidelia. On the track, Romeo Don’t Die flexes the wordplay, rhyme scheme, witty punch lines and flows he’s known for with lyrics like: “That was your girl say she gotten finer That was your girl…