Your servant searching the Internet for Hip Hop and Rap articles The Edmonton rapper, who tackles gossip, failed love and selling your soul on the new album, says his mind has already turned to a possible concept disc based on the ideas of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
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It would be a more cerebral turn that the new release, ``Afterparty Babies,'' which outlines party tales and relationship woes, but that doesn't mean it won't be able to rock a party, Pemberton says in an interview at a Toronto pub
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``You can make a pop song out of anything,'' says Pemberton, noting he's already got a few Sartre-inspired songs under his belt.
``I miss the mystery of (buying a) record and you're like, `I don't totally understand this initially.' But you listen to it a couple more times, or maybe look up certain words.''
``Afterparty Babies,'' Pemberton's second full-length album, is likely a little easier for most people to digest, offering a lyrically dense series of vignettes that revolve around the 22-year-old's friends and hipster life in Edmonton.
The affable artist says he regards it as a concept album, and offered both praise and criticism for the effects that southern rap and uber-producer Timbaland's chart dominance have wrought on popular music.
``I feel like a lot of people are getting away from the idea of the album,'' he notes. ``It's gone away from album and away from (even) singles to the point where it's cellphone ringtones more than anything.'' Timbaland, known for his collaborations with Justin Timberlake and Pussycat Dolls, is said to be working on the first-ever mobile phone album. Once a month, he plans to release a song and corresponding ringtone through the U.S. phone company Verizon.
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The Edmonton rapper, who tackles gossip, failed love and selling your soul on the new album, says his mind has already turned to a possible concept disc based on the ideas of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
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It would be a more cerebral turn that the new release, ``Afterparty Babies,'' which outlines party tales and relationship woes, but that doesn't mean it won't be able to rock a party, Pemberton says in an interview at a Toronto pub
.
``You can make a pop song out of anything,'' says Pemberton, noting he's already got a few Sartre-inspired songs under his belt.
``I miss the mystery of (buying a) record and you're like, `I don't totally understand this initially.' But you listen to it a couple more times, or maybe look up certain words.''
``Afterparty Babies,'' Pemberton's second full-length album, is likely a little easier for most people to digest, offering a lyrically dense series of vignettes that revolve around the 22-year-old's friends and hipster life in Edmonton.
The affable artist says he regards it as a concept album, and offered both praise and criticism for the effects that southern rap and uber-producer Timbaland's chart dominance have wrought on popular music.
``I feel like a lot of people are getting away from the idea of the album,'' he notes. ``It's gone away from album and away from (even) singles to the point where it's cellphone ringtones more than anything.'' Timbaland, known for his collaborations with Justin Timberlake and Pussycat Dolls, is said to be working on the first-ever mobile phone album. Once a month, he plans to release a song and corresponding ringtone through the U.S. phone company Verizon.
Pemberton's disc offers an equal measure of style and substance, with tracks touching on strains put on friendships, the perils of major-label album deals, a doomed pursuit of love and an ode to underage music fans that take in his live shows.
``Younger people are more likely to be less inhibited,'' Pemberton says of the disc's first single, ``In Search of the Youth Crew.''
``They'll jump all over the place. They're more willing to get crazier about the music, if you like. If you get older hipsters, the jaded hipsters, they'll be doing the indie rock dance, crossing their arms and not really giving anything back.''
Pemberton says he snuck into clubs a few times when he was younger, recalling a memorable De La Soul appearance that involved borrowing ID from a 20-year-old co-worker when he was about 16.
``He looked kinda like me, except he had a mohawk,'' says Pemberton.
Exploits like these were not an issue with his parents, he adds, noting they let him drink at age 14 and even took him to the liquor store to buy booze before dropping him off at house parties.
``It was never even a big deal to me,'' says Pemberton.
``I just know the other kids who would have to get their brother to get them alcohol or they would use a fake ID and go to the liquor store and just buy so much alcohol. They were the kids who had alcohol poisoning and who were, like, all messed up.''
``From going to the States and doing shows there now, I see the kids who are first going to the bar when they're 21, and these people are so maladjusted compared to people here. They're getting completely blitzed, they're like, `I've got a beer!' They're so excited about it. Even the drinking age here is just way better.''
Cadence Weapon hits the club circuit April 10 with a 17-city cross-Canada tour that kicks off in Moncton, N.B.