By Colin McGregor The scene: the studio of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, downtown Montreal. The room vibrates to the energy of the artists here this evening. These are not classical ballet dancers, though. These are hip-hop artists. On this night, the international dance group ILL-Abilities […] See more
By Colin McGregor At age 37, Dali Girard, rapper extraordinaire from the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, has died. It happened last October, but it is still difficult to think that he will not be coming through the doors of the Café Graffiti ever again. This bubbly, effervescent […] See more
By Colin McGregor B-boy, impresario and motivational speaker Luca Lazylegz Patuelli and his ILL-Abilities breakdance crew are in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. On the first day of competition in the all-new breakdance event they are to perform at the event venue. Luca, closely […] See more
Book Review of Philosophie du Hip-Hop by Jérémie McEwen By Colin McGregor It is 1996. A young teenager of 16 is sitting comfortably in his parents’ living room on the edge of Parc Lafontaine. He’s listening to a documentary on the gangster rap group NWA, […] See more
By Colin McGregor The reflections of Raymond Viger, who has devoted 35 years of his life to counselling amrginalized youth, are now finally available in English. « Marginal and Proud Of It, » translated by Colin McGregor, is currently up on the editionstnt.com website. Editionstnt.com is the […] See more
A year of celebration and change. The Café Graffiti celebrates its quarter century while the Journal de la Rue celebrates its 30th birthday. The adventure began with the Journal de la Rue, the first French-speaking street newspaper in the world. It was followed in 1993 […] See more
By Colin McGregor We’ve moved! The offices of The Social Eyes inside the Café Graffiti (also responsible for Reflet de Société magazine) have moved a few blocks west on Ste-Catherine Street East. The new digs are quite impressive. There’s much more floor space and a […] See more
By the Bout du Monde collective The Bout du Monde (edge of the world) collective was formed in 2014. Its five members, Nicholas, Max, Melvin, Sasha and Evans, today 16 to 19 years of age, have been accompanied by their mentor Ricardo Lamour as they’ve journeyed to places […] See more
By Maxime Beauregard-Martin The hip-hop movement was born in the Bronx, a New York borough deserted by the middle class in the 1970s. Extremely poor neighborhoods developed, populated principally by Afro-Americans, Puerto Ricans and people from the Caribbean. Inspired by the Jamaican tradition of open […] See more
Bling-Bling for the Bourgeoisie By Maxime Beauregard Martin Don’t look for Calamine to sing the praises of money and material gain in her rap lyrics. This young woman of 29 is refreshing all the usual mainstream rap themes with her feminist, anti-capitalist take on things. […] See more
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