{"id":149035,"date":"2012-03-18T18:30:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socancom100stg.wpenginepowered.com\/rapper-ghettosocks-is-unorthodox-and-adventurous\/"},"modified":"2012-03-18T18:30:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T18:30:32","slug":"rapper-ghettosocks-is-unorthodox-and-adventurous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/rapper-ghettosocks-is-unorthodox-and-adventurous\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Ghettosocks is unorthodox and adventurous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les traductions pour les articles avant l\u2019automne 2013 ne sont pas disponibles pour le moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hip-hop artist Ghettosocks calls his songwriting style \u201cunorthodox.\u201d The Ottawa native, who launched his music career in Halifax after moving there to attend arts college 11 years ago, says it\u2019s mainly due to the subjects he tackles. \u201cI try to address fresh ideas,\u201d says the MC\/producer whose real name is Darren Pyper.<\/p>\n

On his 2006 debut album, Get Some Friends, he wrote a song called \u201cRead A Book,\u201d in which he drops author and literary names. \u201cI make a commentary on how a lot of rappers need to read books, to like, smarten up,\u201d he says. \u201cThe message is \u2018it\u2019s for their own good,\u2019 but it\u2019s always fun and light-hearted. So in that way, in terms of the rap genre, it\u2019s unorthodox.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ghettosocks\u2019 two recent side projects, both duos with labelmates Teenburger (with Timbuktu) and Twin Peaks (with Muneshine), are also a little different. Both albums, Burgertime and Kissing Hands and Shaking Babies, respectively, are themed.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwin Peaks is loosely linked in to the work of David Lynch, and it\u2019s a little bit darker, rooted in braggadocious raps over a variety of aural landscapes,\u201d explains Ghettosocks. \u201cWhereas Teenburger \u2013 which was produced entirely by Halifax legend DJ Jorun Bombay \u2013 is themed on ’80s movies and teen movies, so a lot more funny, more like a party record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ghettosocks’ adventurous writing ways have earned him recognition from the music industry. His most recent solo album, 2009\u2019s Treat of the Day, landed him a 2011 Juno Award nomination in the Rap Recording category, and a win at the 2011 East Coast Music Awards for Rap\/Hip Hop Single for his song \u201cDon\u2019t Turn Around\u201d (feat. Edgar Allen Floe). The year before, he received four nominations at the Nova Scotia Music Awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cNowadays, rap has got stagnant,\u201d says Ghettosocks. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of mimicry going on and emulation, people looking at what\u2019s current or mainstream, especially Canadian artists looking at the U.S. market and emulating the styles and the subject matter. It just gets tired. I write about things that I know or things that I imagine.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

His new solo album, yet to be titled, is slated for a spring release. At press time, he’d just dropped the lead single, \u201cInvincible,\u201d produced by Fresh Kils and featuring El Da Sensei from New Jersey\u2019s The Artifacts. The album will also include production from Bix, Jorun Bombay, Juju from New York\u2019s Beatnuts, and the Herbaliser from the U.K.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs well, I\u2019m going to produce half the record myself. I\u2019m going to be handling the beats,\u201d says Ghettosocks. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a little bit dark, a little bit more moody in terms of the sounds. If Treat of the Day was Easter, then this would be Halloween, if I would compare them to holidays.\u201d
\nNow that\u2019s unorthodox.<\/p>\n

TRACK RECORD<\/strong>
\n\u2022 A week after this interview, Ghettosocks donated a kidney to a family member.
\n\u2022 In 2011, he undertook his first extensive Canadian tour, sponsored by Via Rail, and has toured the U.S., Europe, and made an introductory visit to Japan.
\n\u2022 Ghettosocks has a sandwich named after him at the Good Food Emporium in Halifax (made of grilled cheese, tomato and avocado).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Side projects Teenburger and Twin Peaks keep him busy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-non-categorise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}