Toronto rapper Shad and Michigan based producer 14KT have surprised everyone by dropping a brand-new EP showcasing their recent collaboration. Reel Speakers, a four-track EP stemming from freestyles Shad did on socials, is a compact, high-energy listening with beat, grit, soul, and hope. It is out now on all streaming platforms. The pair, having met at DJ Jazzy Jeff’s iconic Playlist Retreat years prior, connected over freestyles Shad was doing...
Toronto rapper Shad’s brand-new album TAO is out now, via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. To celebrate the release week, Shad shares the video for ‘Black Averageness‘. The rapper explains the concept behind the song: “’Black Averageness’ is a just fun celebration of our beautifully imperfect selves in a society that still struggles to see our humanity. As vital as it is to elevate Black Excellence and to address the harsh realities that we disproportionately experience,...
Toronto rapper Shad has been keeping busy releasing singles since last spring to offer glimpses of his brand-new album TAO out October 1st via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. He now unveils a powerful and candid fourth track titled ‘Body (No Reason)’. Shad explains “Every song on the album highlights a different aspect (or aspects) of human life. And this one is the simplest: Body. No reason. Just movement, feeling....
Fresh off the heels of releasing two singles this autumn, ‘Out of Touch’ and ‘Work,’ Shad is thrilled to finally announce TAO – a brand-new album out October 1st on Secret City Records / Remote Control. To highlight this announcement, a third single and video is out now titled ‘Storm‘. “Storm” is a feeling,” Shad tells us, “The feeling of a flood of memories.” He goes on: “In the same way that a storm...
After taking people by surprise last month by releasing ‘Out of Touch,’ the first brand-new song since 2018, Canadian rapper Shad is at it again and today unveils a punchy new track and its video titled ‘Work’, as premiered by Complex. Shad tells us: “Like ‘Out of Touch’, ‘Work’ was another song written pre-pandemic that is (sadly) even more timely now. I knew I wanted to write a song specifically about two aspects of...
Toronto-based rapper Shad today releases a brand-new song ‘Out of Touch’, a bright, RnB-spiked track featuring the multi-talented pHoenix Pagliacci. This memorable new offering marks the return of the rhymer and the first taste of forthcoming music coming later this year on Secret City Records. “’Out of Touch’ is basically the thesis statement for this upcoming collection,” explains Shad. “It’s about how our individual sense of wholeness can’t be disentangled from our collective well-being. It’s about the idea that we belong to each...
Toronto-based rapper Shad today releases a brand-new song ‘Out of Touch’, a bright, RnB-spiked track featuring the multi-talented pHoenix Pagliacci. This memorable new offering marks the return of the rhymer and the first taste of forthcoming music coming later this year on Secret City Records. “’Out of Touch’ is basically the thesis statement for this upcoming collection,” explains Shad. “It’s about how our individual sense of wholeness can’t be disentangled from our collective well-being. It’s about the idea that we belong to each...
