“Sugar pill” is another way of saying “placebo.” So basically we bit the band Placebo really hard because we’re pathetically uncreative. But that’s the point. We are the uncreative creative. Ask yourself: what is creativity? How can you be “creative” when everything’s already been done? All you can do is appropriate and remix. This is… Continue reading Free Sugar Pill Gang!
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Philosophy
Do you think God had faith in himself? I mean, if he was so all-powerful and so all-knowing – like everyone says he was – then wouldn’t he have just known he was real? He wouldn’t have needed to have faith. Right? I mean: if you know everything, you don’t need faith. The definition of having faith is not knowing;… Continue reading Philosophy
Introducing: Sugar Pill Gang (Pip Skid, Speed Dial 7, Rob Crooks)
Pip Skid and I have been making quite a bit of music together lately. But Sugar Pill Gang is the first album we’ve built as a team from the ground up. Of course, we didn’t do it by ourselves. Speed Dial 7 raps on it too, not to mention the fact that he co-produced it with… Continue reading Introducing: Sugar Pill Gang (Pip Skid, Speed Dial 7, Rob Crooks)
CKUW and UMFM present: Factor and the Chandeliers “Woke Up Alone” tour, with Pip Skid, Butter Pretzels and Rob Crooks August 31st in Winnipeg
When you you’re living in the Canadian prairies, summer is a mind-fuck. The winter’s are so long, and dark, and cold that the only thing keeping you from falling asleep in the snow and freezing to death is the hope, sometimes surer than others, that summer is coming. But we fantasize about it and idealize… Continue reading CKUW and UMFM present: Factor and the Chandeliers “Woke Up Alone” tour, with Pip Skid, Butter Pretzels and Rob Crooks August 31st in Winnipeg
Mid Summer Update
It’s been a long time, I should’ve left you without a blog post to step to. So here is a little update of what’s going on with me and my mind: Before I put out the Hearts EP, I worked on a lot of other people’s music. It was fun, and at the time seemed… Continue reading Mid Summer Update
Twitter Can Be a Strange Place
Not too long ago on Twitter there was a tweet on my feed from the legendary Houston rapper Scarface which caught my attention. Scarface had retweeted and replied to a tweet directed at him from a young woman living somewhere in the States: “Ok RT @xxxx Bieber: @BrotherMob You need to make real rap music like… Continue reading Twitter Can Be a Strange Place
Friday at the Albert: Rob Crooks, Ghost Twin, DJ Beekeeni, A Lion In Your Lap and DJ Damien Ferland
In the past few weeks, you, like many others, may have asked yourself: “what the hell has happened to our beloved Albert?” After all, we’ve all heard the stories that have surfaced since the now infamous ‘toasted bun’ incident went public. The last thing I remember paying attention to was the picture of the bikini-clad… Continue reading Friday at the Albert: Rob Crooks, Ghost Twin, DJ Beekeeni, A Lion In Your Lap and DJ Damien Ferland
Birdapres and Rob Crooks present Argyle
To all of my friends and fans that have been vocally skeptical about how much I sing on my new shit, here’s something just for you. Argyle is an EP Birdapres and I made full of raps and beats, and it’s all based around the theme of being in high-school. Why high school, you ask? Why is… Continue reading Birdapres and Rob Crooks present Argyle
May Madness
The end of May is turning out to be a cluster bomb of great things. It all began last fall when I found out that not only is one of my oldest friends getting married to an amazing woman, but also that he wanted me to be the best man! I don’t think I’m putting… Continue reading May Madness
Birdapres & Rob Crooks’ New Single “Pump Up the Volume”
Birdapres and I are different than most rappers you may meet in Winnipeg. We’re both poor men’s intellectuals, with a long reading list of paper backs resting on our bedside tables. Although we are fundamentally influenced by the movement that came out of the Bronx in the 1970s, our musical influences… Continue reading Birdapres & Rob Crooks’ New Single “Pump Up the Volume”