Maestro Fresh Wes reflects on his journey to becoming the godfather of Canadian hip-hop

This year marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, and you can’t begin to talk about that history without talking about Maestro Fresh Wes. He sits down with Tom Power to talk about his journey from writing rhymes at Scarborough’s Parkway Mall to becoming the godfather of Canadian hip-hop.
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[@yaraviera4444]

Thanks for sharing this lovely video as well the artist. I look at the 60s 0r far back..an I think it was really beautiful songs Elvis presley or little Richard ❤️ or Ray..incredible artist

[@yaraviera4444]

❤❤❤❤God bless this person

[@bradc32]

yes!!

[@terencedrakes5291]

Maestro connecting music and identity or music and self-discovery is essential b/c he is clearly saying that Hip-Hop is not primarily for entertainment, it will always be sonorous and entertain-ing but Hip-Hop's true value is in its ability to transport ideas, messages, thoughts, narratives, experiences and memories through a mode of communication that was not greatly dependent on background vocals, harmonies and rifts instead this new art form called for the loquacious to be celebrated, for the verbose to be crowned and for the long-winded to be memorialized. Our fathers bridged the generation gap when they introduced us to the cultural couriers of the 70s: Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Dennis Brown - so that we wouldn't forget who we are while in the midst of a multi-cultural tumult that we could not look to for validation; I think Kardinal was correct in his analysis of Black Canadians not understanding their own brilliance or beauty but this is partly because we are a people who were doubly transplanted (first to the Caribbean and then to Canada) and I think that comes with its own traumas many of which we have yet to be address in our Canadian branch of Hip-Hop music in the same way that Nas, Pac and Jay have addressed some critical issues underlying the Black American everyday experience but I think what Maestro is saying, and he is correct, is that the music helped us to catch an inner balance in a way that the school system and the church failed to do. Peace

[@keithi.murray7191]

Off what West Indian Island are your Parents from??? I recognize a slight Trini accent ???