TORONTO RAPPER HOUDINI SLAIN IN BRAZEN DOWNTOWN SHOOTING
Almost six months after budding rapper FTG Metro was killed in a shooting in downtown Ottawa, another promising young Canadian rapper was killed in do...
NATHAN MILES, HEVVE AND KYAZZE JOIN FORCES ON NEW SUMMER TRAP ANTHEM “CRASH”
Just in time for summer, a couple of Ottawa's hardest working hip-hop artists have joined forces to drop a brand new banger for their city.
"Crash"...
TOP 10 WU-TANG NAMES FOR OTTAWA MAYOR JIM WATSON
The Notorious BIG retro jersey photo. The Snoop Dogg Bluesfest modern jersey photo. The Rhianna heritage jersey photo. These are among the pantheon of...
THERE’S A NEW TIKTOK SUPERSTAR ON THE RISE AND HIS NAME IS TIAGZ
While Drake and Tory Lanez have the world doing the Toosie Slide and listening to Quarantine Radio, there is another Canadian artist who is quietly (a...
CANADIAN MUSIC VIDEO ROUNDUP | APRIL 2020
It's that time again! SHIFTER's Canadian Music Video Roundup for April includes videos from Drake, The Weeknd, Dip Black, Tory Lanez, Kardinal Off...
OTTAWA HIP-HOP AND R&B ARTIST SVLM SIGNS WITH REIGN MUSIC
SVLM, one of the leading hip-hop and R&B artists out of Canada's capital, recently signed to record label REIGN Music, a division of the Montreal ...
ARREST MADE IN MURDER OF RAPPER FTG METRO
Five months after 18 year-old Manyok Akol, also known as rapper "FTG Metro", was killed at a Gilmour Street Airbnb in downtown Ottawa, Ottawa police h...
VIBEBYMELO X TRAVIS THICKLE SHINE ON THE CAVES HAVE WIFI
Toronto artist VibeByMelo, who SHIFTER once crowned one of the best live performer we had ever seen, is back with a new album The Caves Have Wifi (T.C...
DJ PROSPER BACK WITH CARIBBEAN INSPIRED ARENA ANTHEM “MENTAL MOTIVATION”
The NHL season is still on hold due to COVID-19, but Ottawa Senators DJ, DJ Prosper, is keeping busy dropping his latest single "Mental Motivation". P...
WHO OWNS HIP-HOP? – THE BIGGEST TRAVESTY ISN’T THE LOSS OF LYRICISM BUT THE LOSS OF OWNERSHIP
Today, there's a lot of tension between the younger generation and the "old heads" who grew up in hip-hop in the 80's and 90's. The younger generation...
NATHAN MILES REVEALS ARTWORK FOR UPCOMING SINGLE “CRASH”
Ottawa hip-hop artist Nathan Miles has been busy teasing a brand new single for the Summer called "Crash", a collaboration with Dreamland artist Hevve...
ARTIST OF THE MONTH // MAY – VANCOUVER R&B AND HIP-HOP ARTIST, COLE JAMES
SHIFTER's Artist of the Month for May is Cole James, an emerging west coast artist based out of Vancouver, British Columbia with melodic and spacey vo...