This is how the black list the real one of the greatest to do it and underrated many of our own is sell out mhhh Kardinal I one of the legends Pushed aside When you don't sell your soul you don't get much support
Yikes. I was lucky. This poster was hanging up in the record store that I used to go to way back, until I eventually purchased the CD. Glad you found it. Salute!!!!
Deadlift workout music right here 💖 *a u t h e n t I c v i e w s* 💖 dun took Kardinal Offishall oFf 2 da big leagues and for dat I will always be super grate
back in the day, mix tapes by the best Baby Blue!! Hangin' at Play De Records, listening to the mixes, gettin' lifted...damn, it sucks that those are the good OLD days...now all grown up and responsible....Baby Blue doing much new or they just working local?
Had this blasting in my car as I moved from Montreal to Toronto in 2001. 15 years later and I'll be making that same trip moving back to an awesome city. Better bet this song'll be blasting
I loved this song....had no idea whatsoever what he was talking about, didn't know he was talking about Toronto or Canada for that matter I just really liked it when it first came out. Fast forward to now, I completely understand and respect this song that much more.
i seen this live at the Warped Tour in Toronto when i was 16 and he had a fire set. I was a rap fan out of place at a alt rock tour and i loved hearing new rap that wasn’t played in the US
In 2004 my BD and I were going to Jamaica. Kardinal was 2 seats ifo us on the plane. My BD sang this song the whole flight. Lol. He thought he was bugging him, but Kardinal was prob laughing inside the whole time. Lol
Yeah that's a common mistake. Although I think the slang/culture is more prevalent and "richer" in the UK, like not just London - all major cities in England. But no doubt Toronto feels this influence as well, similarly to Brooklyn, Miami and Fort Lauderdale. I just think all these places aren't as impacted/influenced by Jamaican culture as London and the UK, mostly due to the fact that the slang has been used for longer in the UK (because of the colonial history and the fact that all Jamaicans were British citizens back in the day due to colonialism) and so there's more Jamaicans in London than anywhere else in the world and also because of the time. Jamaicans have been in the UK for over a century now and they only recently (from about 1970/80s) started emigrated to Toronto, Miami and New York. Also Drake was "Americanised" for pretty much all his career, he only started drawing on his Toronto culture after he spent time in the UK and realised there was a whole other country, culture and music scene that could relate to the Jamaican influence. I think the first time he started properly using Toronto/UK/Jamaican slang was in his verse on Meek Mills "rico". And then after that he did Controlla, One Dance (UK funky house singer/sample) and all his stuff on More Life (pratically a UK project from Giggs, Skepta, Dave, Jorja Smith, Sampha etc). Here's a video that explains this and all the ways in which Drake is/was influence by UK culture: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K2GO1dnY02U.html In summary, it is definitely Toronto culture as well, no question about that. But it seems Drake only got this "6side" confidence and "Toronto pride" wave after he spent time in the UK and saw a similar culture but on a larger scale. So I think this is why people say Drake is taking UK slang, not because he is literally taking all this slang from the UK (although he does very occasionally for some words), but because it was the UK that gave him the confidence to be proud of his own Torontonian heritage and culture. For the longest time if you were Canadian/Torontonian, the only way to make it big as a rapper was to basically sound and adopt east coast American culture. That wasn't ever really the case in the UK, the UK's culture as always been itself.
We've been speaking like this from time. The Caribbean community has always had a major presence here in Canada especially Toronto. Drake is a bandwagonist and never repped Toronto as hard when he first hit the radio.
@@ThePrimebrook Jamaicans and West Indians have been in Toronto before the 70's. Were also the most multicultural in the world, all the Caribbean is represented here
I bought this album in 2002. 1st time I ever heard of Kardinal Offishall was on the Clipse ''Grindin Remix''. He said, ''Well if it isn't Mr. Canadian, Mr. Canuck, T. Dot niggas grindin...'' I was like damn this man's Canadian? I gotta check him out. #Memories
Listen, I been listening to this song since IT CAME OUT back in 01' ! He's not making fun of Americans. He is making a point to the people of Toronto, Canada or anyone who visits Toronto. He is saying T.dot Has a HUGE West Indian community ( As does New York ) And to not assume everyone is from Jamaica once you hear an accent. Many of the words you hear in Toronto is a combination from many different islands. Thats all the song is about and its a hott ass song ! LARGE UPS WEST INDIES!!
Lol, just no. Toronto & NY are garbage Jafaican mish-mash amalgams, regardless of make-up of constituents. Need proof? BaKardi/Bacardi isn't from the West Indies. Appleton is. Hence the "faican". There is no "Blacklist" - it's just that foreign man who playin' West Indian cyan fetching pick talent because dey done reach sellout mode years back. Pretenders. If your grand/parents were Jamaican/West Indian, and you never LIVED in Jamaica/West Indies, and can't roll unlimited in all neighborhood and got to stay in your family neighborhood/tourist zones when you visit,. YOU AIN'T NO FAHKIN' JAMAICAN/WEST INDIAN. You nah different den a jerk chicken eating Newfie who playing pie-ass dress up like Justin Trudeau.
cant believe drake dont got respect for ya boy kardinal he put it dowsn for canada as awhole let alone as t dot artists he should respct he woulda never had a chance if the roads werent paved by ya boy kardinal
Kardinal popped up on my tiktok and I immediately thought of this song. I will never forget this song. Much music, much more music, and bet pounded this into my brain 😂
This might actually be the most important song ever in Toronto's hip-hop history. Can't think of any other joint that encapsulates a golden era of Toronto and the origins of the renowned Tdot slang.
