DOCUMENTARY “Drop the Needle” features Get Loose Crew images
March 2022 – Toronto, ON A brief tribute to the Get Loose Crew included in the upcoming Canadian documentary “Drop the Needle”, the group are featured in a 1987 photograph taken in the basement studio in Jacksons house. Produced by Canterbury Productions, the film features local iconic record store Play de Record that played an […]
“DJ Shadow uses Get Loose Crew Vocals in Concert Tribute wordplay”
ARCHIVED – Original Date: 2002. Not to be confused with the Get Loose Crew Hip-Hop artist and rapper MC Shadow, DJ Shadow, is an American DJ, songwriter and record producer who has toured the United States and abroad. During a recorded concert in London England at the Brixton Academy and in performance with fellow notable […]
“Interview with Niel Scobie” – CiTR FM DJ & Hip Historian
Toronto – 2015 Interview by Ph.D. candidate and former Vancouver CiTR 101.9 FM Hip Hop DJ Niel Scobie into Shadow’s participation as a member of the Get Loose Crew and his contributions as an artist in the Canadian Hip Hop scene. The contributions by Shadow are expected to be documented in Scobie’s work “Systems of […]
BlogTO honorable mention to Get Loose Crew in most collectable Toronto albums
ARCHIVED – Original Date: September 21, 2014. blogTo online magazine published Guest Contributor Colin Gillespie’s article where he compiled and offers readers a list of “The top 10 most collectable Toronto albums of all time.” The writer listed various groups and genres with visual and audio links to some of the most recognizable Toronto music […]
“CBC Hip Hop Summit” Celebrates 25 Years of Canadian Hip Hop
ARCHIVED – Original Date: April 2011. Based upon the foundation and success of the T-Dot Pioneers Exhibit, (see the Post here… ) Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) held a Hip-Hop Summit April 1-3, 2011 with a live recorded show commemorating the genres history, hosted in the Glenn Gould Studio within the CBC building in Toronto. The […]
“TDot Pioneers” Hip Hop” Exhibit
ARCHIVED – Original Date: March 2010 T-DOT PIONEERS EXHIBIT – An interactive community timeline designed to engage members of the hip hop community in documenting their own histories and to identify the Pioneers in Toronto and Canadian Hip-Hop. In March 2010, the Toronto Free Gallery hosted an exhibit called T-Dot Pioneers: An Exploration of Toronto […]
“First Rap JUNO” (technically) goes to Get Loose Crew alum.
ARCHIVED – Original date: 1991. Former Get Loose Crew member MC B (Carl Badwa) achieves music industry success with a JUNO award for “Best R&B/Soul Recording of the Year” for his “Dance to the Music“. Badwa changed his moniker from “MC B” to B-Kool and joined Simply Majestic as a feature act […]
Concert Hall – Get Loose Crew performance
ARCHIVED – Original Date: August 1988. Concert Hall (Masonic Temple) “The biggest stage in hip-hop” located at 888 Yonge Street on the corner of Yonge Street and Davenport Road, regarded as the temple for Hip-Hop music in Canada. It has hosted the biggest names in the genre during the earliest years of many artists’ careers […]
Twilight Zone Club – Get Loose Crew performance
ARCHIVED – Original Date: June 1988. Legendary Toronto Club “Twilight Zone” on Richmond Street West featured a performance by Get Loose Crew, arranged by the groups promoter Rawle James. The performance was on a Saturday night in May 1988 and featured a two song set of Get Loose Crew and Wannabe which had charted in […]
STREETSOUND Magazine – June 1988
ARCHIVED – Original Date: June 1988 “The Get Loose Crew ride on the success of their first EP distributed by Electric, produced by their own production company East Park Production – four young brothers down together, motivating each other to secure a wider berth for rap music to settle in Canada.” – Johnbronski Adams, Streetsound […]