HOW EDMONTON’S UNDERBELLY HATCHED A HIP-HOP CAREER

In Bedroom Rapper: Cadence Weapon on Hip Hop, Resistance and Surviving the Music Industry (McClelland & Stewart, May 31), Rollie Pemberton, better known as Cadence Weapon, traces his life and career from his birth in Edmonton in 1986 to winning the Polaris Music Prize in 2021. Part personal memoir, part cultural history of hip hop, the book covers key moments such as Pemberton performing with Public Enemy in 2008 and the origin story of Oliver Square, the hometown ode that first brought him to fame. —Brian Bethune It was a no-brainer that I should make a song about Edmonton. But what aspects of the city would I rap about? There wasn’t much in the way of civic pride when it came to our town. It was a country music outpost…

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