Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

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A Renaissance man for the Digital Age, Cadence Weapon aka Rollie Pemberton is rapper/producer/author with a list of accomplishments and credits so long – from receiving industry accolades for his music to receiving awards for critiquing this same industry in his writing – you might wonder what more is there for him to do. At once encyclopedically historical and presciently future – minded, the Polaris Music Prize winner is known first and foremost for his lyricism: charged commentary and cautionary tales of artificiality, tech-culture, classicism, gentrification, exploitation and more fit beside the self-aware chronicles of his own life and career. Cadence Weapon has made good on the critical acclaim of his early work and still remains at the avant-garde, pushing boundaries and bu... more...