THE TOP 5 MUSICAL MOMENTS OF 2010 ON HIPHOSSIP CANADA.

1. When KJ decided to educate Torontonians about using Crime Stoppers to solve a crime, he created a song and placed pictures into it showing our work with families of crime victims "My mom's a Snitch" became a hit among several people and Law enforcement. Toronto Police tweeted it on their Facebook pages.





2. The Launch of Ruby and Chikaadee's video "Thaya Thaya." They are the only boyfriend/girlfriend duo of rapper/singers based out of Toronto. Ruby & Chikaadee put together a song that captured our attention rapped in Tamil. The video hits went up to a staggering 50,000 in 48 hours and still climbs till today. All their videos are viral.



3. The voice of Chris Jackson everywhere and songs with Blaze and Jay-Z. The only unsigned artist in Toronto with the BIGGEST fan base. We were all fascinated with the different songs. Chris Jackson captured our hearts and EARS. Watch out for him in 2011.







4. The MURDER of Rapper Donald Grant aka Don Kartel in a Missasauga, Ontario hotel here in Canada. Kartel was good rapper that I mentored but as I knew him, he was a hardworker as compared to many of these jokers in Canada. He hated guns and will fight with his fists. Something he said in his last tweets.




Now came word that Kartel was a "PIMP" according to Inspectors at Peel Region homicide and the suspect was Jerome Derby, a 20 year old we spotted in another rap video holding an R.I.P shirt at 0:58 and the brother of another homicide victim in 2010 19-year-old Jermaine Derby. The whole story is so weird that it boils down to all this gun toting.

Julie Belluz contacted me from Macleans magazine and I spoke about the Kartel I knew. The search is still on for Jerome Derby. Click the picture to read the Maclean article. For those of you that don't know, Macleans is Canada's weekly TIME/Newsweek type magazine. You have to be important to get in there and Don was. Great tribute in a special issue, the 2010 year in pictures.

5. When HipHossip partnered with Toronto Police to make the community safer. The teen violence rates in Toronto was very alarming in 2010, so HipHossip teamed up with Toronto Police TAVIS initiative and local upcoming rappers to rap some public service announcements. These young rappers possibly these days had more credibility recording them into the ears of local teens than the cops would so they went to Z103FM and Flow 93.5FM to record these PSA's where they met with Toronto Police. The PSA's ran the whole month of June and bam, NO HOMICIDES! Below are Rappers Brad Lyko and Andrew Slowly's video. Read the story in the Toronto Sun. Lets do this again and yes, we are planning to film a video PSA soon. Stay tuned!