Last Friday, August 11, 2023, was the 50th anniversary of hip-hop culture. I had the good fortune of being interviewed on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning about the momentous occasion, the impact of hip-hop culture on a global scale, Toronto’s hip-hop culture, Project T-Dot, which is my documentary project on Toronto’s hip-hop culture, community, and history, and other related topics. 

On Saturday, June 24, 2023, in collaboration with the good people at Festivals of Vaughn, I documented the first Hot In Herre festival, which took place at Toronto’s spacious Downsview Park. 

During the winter of 2008, after documenting an event at the El Mocambo in Toronto for Project T-Dot, my documentary project on Toronto’s hip-hop culture, community, and history, my longtime friend and colleague Neil Donaldson, also known as Logikal Ethix, recommended that I apply to cover Canadian Music Week to meet potential colleagues and clients in some of the industries that I wanted to be established in, and to document American and Canadian hip-hop culture (and other musical cultures).

On Tuesday, March 28, 2023, I had the honour of speaking as part of a panel for the first Indigenous Hip-Hop Symposium, an event at and via the Art Gallery of Ontario, thanks to my thoughtful and innovative AGO colleagues Audrey Hudson, Richard & Elizabeth Currie, Chief, Education & Programming, and Charlotte Big Canoe, Program Curator, Indigenous Projects.