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Moka Only – Your Soul

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From the album “Patina”
Music Video Directed by Chris Lazar

Daniel Denton is an iconic artist in Canadian hip-hop, based out of Vancouver, performing musical feats under any one of his mysterious aliases. Guised as Ron Contour, Torch, or most notably, as Moka Only, his delivery is consistent and unmatched. He is an acclaimed underground champion, and a true storyteller with an unfathomable collection of stories to tell.

Moka works as a multi-faceted artist, and has been writing, producing, and creating relentlessly since the late nineties. He has celebrated acknowledgment through a 2015 WCMA rap recording of the year nomination, and three Canadian Urban Television nods. As Co- founder of the collective rap group Swollen Members, a name that Moka recalls, with tongue in cheek, coming up with while “…sitting in a Denny’s”, and “…because I liked the double entendre”, his successes garnered him Three Juno Awards, Seven Platinum Plaques, and Seven MMVAs. He has also collaborated with legends such as MF Doom, J Dilla, and Grand Puba, and has toured internationally with artists such as Tanya Morgan and ILLA J, only to name a few.

Fast-forward to 2016, a truly remarkable year for Moka, in which he continued to progress and expand his creativity. Released via URBNET, Moka gifted fans with his ‘12 for 12 project’, a mammoth musical feat that saw him putting out one album every month, for the entire year. Each album curated from a palette of anecdotal quips, time hops, and relativity.

“I do them. I do songs”, Moka expresses. “They are mere moments of my ‘artness’ in this current antigravity of 2016, where we are all becoming disengaged and averse to actually being present. Can we reset ourselves and get back to soul power, please? It is my only true wish. My wish for the feeling to feel feel-able again in this music life or whatever surrounds it”

The following year saw the release of the self-produced album “Concert for One”, one of Canada’s most highly anticipated rap releases of 2017, and a current nominee for the WCMA 2018 Rap Recording of the Year award. Packed with stand-alone characteristic beats, the LP was later released as an instrumental record.

Moka Only’s upcoming release, Patina, is a showcase of Moka’s signature smooth, jazzy, hip hop beats, married with lyrical storytelling. The twelve-track self-produced LP is set for both physical and digital release via URBNET, on April 26th, 2019 and will be distributed by Fontana North Distribution, INgrooves and Fat Beats Distribution.

This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters.

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BREVNER – IKIGAI CH 2 – KENSHO (VALIDATION)

THIS IS A CASE STUDY AND A DOCUMENTATION SOLEY BASED ON THE ARTIST “BREVNER”. A TESTAMENT TO THE THINGS AN ARTIST CAN ACHIEVE WITHOUT THE PRESSURE THAT COMES FROM TYPICAL MUSIC INDUSTRY CREATE / POLISH / RELEASE STRUCTURE. WITH THAT IN MIND, BREVNER WAS ABLE TO MOVE FREELY THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRETY OF THIS EXPERIMENT AND CREATE ART THAT STAYS TRUE TO HIS PROCESS. THE ONLY STIPULATION – ANYTHING HE CREATED MUSICALLY OR VISUALLY HAD TO BE FINISHED WITHIN 24 HOURS. THE POINT OF THIS IS TO TRULY CAPTURE THE ESSENCE OF THE MOMENT AND THE REFLECTION OF HIS EMOTIONAL STATE IN THE PUREST WAY POSSIBLE. NOT OVER THINKING THE PROCESS BECAUSE OF TIME CONSTRAINTS FORCES HIM TO RELY ON CREATIVE INSTINCTS BREVNER DOES THIS AS WELL AS HE CAN. WHAT STARTED OUT AS AN EXPERIMENT HAS SINCE TURNED INTO A NEW WAY OF LIFE.

Music video for IKIGAI CH 2 – KENSHO (VALIDATION) performed by BREVNER.

Copyright (C) 2019 URBnet / bsharp.

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Snak The Ripper & R.A. The Rugged Man – Knuckle Sandwich (Official Music Video)

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Directed by Stuey Kubrick
Produced by C-Lance
VFX: Steven Davies
Scratches by D-rec
Album: Snak The Ripper, Off The Rails

LYRICS:
Snak The Ripper:
Im in a perfect position to throw, a fist to ya throat,
six in a row, no detonation code, I’m fit to explode,
these bitches and hoes, ripping my clothes, licking my chode,
creeping through the darkest alleys, I don’t stick to the road,
I’m the shit and they know, kick in door, don’t aim high,
I’m hitting ’em low, better watch out the kid is a pro,
no more empty pit in my soul, I quit the liquor and blow,
guess I’m switching my flow cause I don’t want my ticker to go,
YO! Better believe it I’ma leave em with a back hand,
never defeated, always weeded breathing like a fat man,
keeping em bleeding, taking a beating probably need a cat scan,
roll up the weed, then I proceed, to follow the attack plan
With a couple obese chicks, I’m watching em mud wrestle,
these rappers are cheese dicks, they talking but nuttin special,
They fool you cheap tricks but I’m launching a scud missile,
I’m spitting extreme shit, till I’m popping a blood vessel,
If you tryin and pull some slick shit I’m knocking out your chiclets,
sweet dreams bitches, I ain’t talking bout Eurythmics,
send your a mom some dick pics, my fingers smell like fish sticks,
giving you a noogie, purple nerplin’ your bitch tits,
they wondering why all my shit is so dirty
it’s probably cause I ain’t been fuckin with soap,
call me the master of puppets the way that I’m
pulling these strings like I’m plucking a note,
roll to your spot with a couple of blokes
and a couple of things that I tucked in my coat,
nobody fucking with me I been throwing these elbows
cause all of my knuckles are broke,

Chorus:
yo this is blunt force trauma, bet you find it tough to manage,
wake up with your head wrapped up in a bloody bandage,
on a stretcher while they try to treat the fuckin damage,
this is what’ll happen when you eat a knuckle sandwich
yo this is blunt force trauma, bet you find it tough to manage,
wake up with your head wrapped up in a bloody bandage,
on a stretcher while they try to treat the fuckin damage,
this is what’ll happen when you eat a knuckle sandwich!

R.A. The Rugged Man:
Sluggish snail snot trail. Murder male, not pale
Body drop, cop failed, molotov cocktail Kills.
I never believe in the death and decievin’
The eating the apple The Garden of Eden.
Klonopin, meth and they speeding and tweakin’
I’m makin’ a killin’, it’s murderer season
With Jessica Lang and I’m beatin’ my chest
Be like Idi Amin ’cause I’m eatin’ their flesh
No rules though, let’s go back to old school flow
Original Hannibal Lecter, Manhunter
my past life I smacked the apostles and crashed
The Last Supper, Man suffer, so damn gutter –
I was great before my great granddaddy’s dick spit out my grandmother
Like a torpedo, B-Hop / Tito, they can’t stop the reign Peabo,
I’m in my prime: Royce / Preemo
And I’m self made, look at no Dre, Vietnam that any foe pray
Go to combat: Reggie Ossé, go beyond rap, heavy no pay
And I drive drunk, crash whips, girls grab your tits
Rope-a-dope the Pope ’til he choke on a bag of dicks
Flip the parked car, John Carpenter Dark Star
At the Shark Bar or in Vancouver with Nardwuar,
It’s nevertheless, they said it the best
Rebel in the street, they better protest
Get ’em undressed, the devil possessed
The end of the west, ahead of the rest
Classic rhyme, damage the mind, like the passage of time
Snap a spine, Lord master divine

Chorus:
yo this is blunt force trauma, bet you find it tough to manage,
wake up with your head wrapped up in a bloody bandage,
on a stretcher while they try to treat the fuckin damage,
this is what’ll happen when you eat a knuckle sandwich
yo this is blunt force trauma, bet you find it tough to manage,
wake up with your head wrapped up in a bloody bandage,
on a stretcher while they try to treat the fuckin damage,
this is what’ll happen when you eat a knuckle sandwich!

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RUIN YOUR DAY: RED FLAG vs SKETCH MENACE

RED FLAG vs SKETCH MENACE
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