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Inside Canada’s music industry with rapper Cadence Weapon

2022/6/6
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The Decibel

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You may know Rollie Pemberton by his stage name, Cadence Weapon. He’s the Edmonton-born rapper, who won the Polaris Music Prize in 2021, is known for his music with a political bent. Though he’s long been a writer of poetry – he was Edmonton’s poet laureate in 2009 – he’s now adding a new title to his list of accomplishments: non-fiction writer.

In his new book, Bedroom Rapper: Cadence Weapon on Hip-Hop, Resistance and Surviving the Music Industry), Pemberton charts his path through the music industry. He joins Globe Associate Arts editor Aruna Dutt) for a conversation on creativity in the pandemic and emerging with a new album – and now a book – to live audiences.