Seasons Festival, BlueprintLIVE & Venue presents Keith Ape + Tommy Genesis #Seasons2016
Date/Time: Mar 23 2016, 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm
Vancouver, Venue NightclubAge: 19+
Cost: $22.50
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KEITH APE
One potential candidate to lead the South Korean rap takeover is Keith Ape, a 21-year-old rapper and member of Hi-lite Records’ group The Cohort. Keith, whose stage name is a reference to the late Keith Haring, has been releasing music online for a couple of years. But he began attracting attention after releasing interpretations of viral American rap songs. Last year, he put out “Hot Ninja,” a dub of Bobby Shmurda’s summer smash “Hot Nigga.” And earlier this month, he dropped “It G Ma,” a track so heavily inspired by “U Guessed It” that Keith Ape is quickly being dubbed the Korean OG Maco. Regardless, the posse cut, which features verses from a handful of Korean and Japanese Cohort affiliates and whose video stars a bottle of rice wine, is a certified banger.
TOMMY GENESIS
If you’re keeping count, Atlanta crew Awful Records now stands at around 16 members. The latest addition is Vancouver-born Tommy Genesis, who met Father and KeithCharles Spacebar on the Internet years ago. These days, she’s an official member of the DIY crew and says she makes art “about being something, not to be about something.”
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