Shad

Shad: The boom-bap throwback Stylin is vintage Shad, though the pointed lyric in particular is perhaps not: I got fans that say, Oh hey Shad, I hate rap but I like you! / Well I hate that but I like you / Or at least I like that you like me, so I wont spite you / Its not your fault that you re a white dude that likes white music I like too / Just dont be surprised by my IQ, according to 660 News. But hes not always comfortable with his status as Canadian raps cerebral saviour, especially when a compliment simultaneously implies an insult toward his hip-hop peers and TORONTO Canadian rapper Shad wanted to drastically increase the degree of difficulty on his fourth album Flying Colours, crafting a densely musical, intensely personal statement of serious ambition. And yet its an off-the-cuff moment on the records most familiar-sounding track that has fans chattering. The 31-year-old is often held aloft as a nutritious alternative to that other rap, a likable everyman whose knotty but never naughty rhymes tend to avoid such well-worn rap tropes as violence or bank-account bragging. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.