Cadence Weapon

Bots and online activists. Tech gentrification and algorithms. Phone addiction and wellness culture. Through his urgent rap anthems, Cadence Weapon captures these dizzying contradictions of modern culture and technology with both precision and irreverence. The Hamilton-based rapper, producer, former poet laureate, and author of Bedroom Rapper (2022) also known as Rollie Pemberton got his musical start while careening through the rap internet as a teenager in Edmonton, Canada. He emerged as an artist who gave voice to issues of systemic inequality and racial disparity, particularly among Canada’s Black communities, with his fifth album Parallel World, which won the 2021 Polaris Prize.

Now, with his sixth studio album, ROLLERCOASTER, arriving April 19 on MNRK Music Group, Pemberton expands his incisive commentary to the sprawling internet—a former utopian playground that’s turned into a capitalist junkyard—to remind users they don’t have to just “go along for the ride,” he says. The impetus for the project was a February 2022 trip to Los Angeles, where Pemberton witnessed technology’s growing influence on society, as seen through the “optimization” of every human interaction and transaction. “I was observing parallels between the fraudulence of certain institutions and the fake news of the internet,” he explains. “With bots and people being willfully false for profit, the internet has led to a total obfuscation of reality.”

Who is it for?

All ages

Tickets : $30.05

How to get tickets?

Buy online

Phone: 416-872-4255

 

Date: Saturday April 20, 2024 | 8:00 PM

Venue & Address

TD Music Hall At Allied Music Centre, 178 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON M5B 1T7

Wheelchair accessible

Paid Parking

Accessible by Public Transport