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Del Cowie

Del Cowie

Del Cowie is a Toronto-based music journalist and documentary producer who was a writer and producer for the Peabody and International Emmy Award-winning Netflix documentary series Hip Hop Evolution. Additional writing and producing credits include This Is Pop (Netflix), Black Community Mixtapes (Prime Video) and the forthcoming Paid In Full (BBC/CBC).  He is currently the editor of Invisible Publishing's Bibliophonic music book series focusing on contemporary Canadian music and is currently writing This Is A Throwdown: A Toronto Hip-Hop History for ECW Press.

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Common's Peaceful Journey

Interview by Del Cowie, Exclaim!, 1 January 2006

WHEN COMMON ANSWERS the phone with the greeting "Peace" it's hard to doubt the sincerity in his voice. ...

Pete Rock's Soul Machine

Interview by Del Cowie, Exclaim!, 1 January 2006

"WHEN IT comes to real hip-hop, royalty hip-hop, I think I fit in just perfect." Arrogant comments from anyone who is not named Pete Rock, ...

Clipse: Hell Hath No Fury

Review and Interview by Del Cowie, Exclaim!, 15 February 2006

PORTAYING A HUSTLER THAT happens to rhyme has paid off for some recently, dutifully fulfilling the coke rap fetish of voyeuristic listeners. ...

Kendrick Lamar: Inside the Year's Best Album

Interview by Del Cowie, Exclaim!, 26 November 2012

KENDRICK LAMAR celebrated his 24th birthday performing a concert in Toronto. At the end of the show on a summer night in 2011 at the ...

Saukrates: The Legend of Saukrates

Interview by Del Cowie, Noisey, 26 September 2014

IT'S THE MARCH 2014 edition of a monthly hip-hop showcase for Toronto artists taking place on the Wrongbar stage, and Saukrates is closing the show. ...

Michie Mee is the First Lady of Toronto Hip-Hop

Retrospective and Interview by Del Cowie, Noisey, 21 April 2015

Michie Mee's mix of battle rap with a little piece of reggae led to her being the first Canadian MC to sign to a major ...

Statik Selektah: Lucky 7

Review by Del Cowie, Exclaim!, 7 July 2015

LIKE MANY of his previous efforts, Statik Selektah's seventh album Lucky 7 features the respected producer's hard-edged East Coast production backing a mixture of veteran ...

Method Man: The Meth Lab

Review by Del Cowie, Exclaim!, 2 September 2015

WHILE IT'S BILLED as a Method Man solo album, The Meth Lab is ostensibly an album on which Method Man prominently features his crew. ...

Dâm-Funk: Invite the Light

Review by Del Cowie, Exclaim!, 2 September 2016

IT'S BEEN SIX YEARS since Dâm-Funk last released a solo record, but it feels like he's hasn't really been away that long. ...

Kardinal Offishall: Five Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About Kardinal Offishall

Comment by Del Cowie, Exclaim!, 21 October 2017

KARDINAL OFFISHALL HAS been a Canadian hip-hop mainstay for almost 20 years. ...

The Internet: Hive Mind

Review by Del Cowie, Now Toronto, 23 July 2018

The Internet are at their most fully realized on Hive Mind ...

Sharon Jones: Miss Sharon Jones! documentary captures soul singer's spirited cancer battle

Interview by Del Cowie, CBC.ca, 4 April 2019

MISS SHARON JONES! is the latest documentary from Oscar-winning director Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA). The stirring and inspiring film focuses on Sharon Jones, the ...

How Toronto's YogiTheProducer Went From Retail to Working on Kehlani's New LP

Interview by Del Cowie, Complex, 25 May 2020

With credits on Kehlani and Jessie Reyez's latest albums, the Toronto-based producer is on the rise. ...

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