Nova Scotia

ingenious and infectious - upbeat rock that'll surprise and delight listen after listen - great friggin' music - great friggin' lyrics - don't pass this over

Classified is the hottest emcee to come straight outta the Maritimes. One of the hardest working rappers in Canada, he releases an album almost every year. His site always features samples from the latest album plus lots of videos and music downloads (scroll down the page -- it's easy to miss at first).

Hip Hop that avoids the pitfalls of typical subject matters, such as the state of hip hop, wack rappers, etc., and instead examines the events of exactly 50 years ago, in the year 1957, and it embodies perspectives from an assortment of semi-fictionalized characters, and questions our own skewed times.