Their first Alberta battle, I was a judge at. I was very involved from the beginning with them. Yeah, King of the Dot, which is Canada's biggest battle circuit. I dropped out at grade eight.Īnd you were big in the battle circuit for a time. #3 was a lawyer, but that's never going to happen. Now I run my own blog and everything's good, I accomplished everything. I found a piece of paper that said what I wanted to be when I grew up: #1 a web designer and #2 a singer. It shows you from the beginning that hard work pays off. I would literally walk four hours to hand out flyers, I'd hand out 3,000 over the course of a month, and come the day of the show it would be a 150 capacity venue and there would be a line down the block. Nobody would book me shows, so when I was 18 I started throwing my own shows. Why am I not this good?” I tried to write verses. I remember listening to Kanye records and thinking “this is SO GOOD. Then, I started singing hooks on underground super-local rap records. I thought “I could do that.” I really loved music, but I didn't think I could sing and had no confidence to say I was talented, so I was a backpack rapper for a few years. I just thought all of the local rappers from my city were really terrible. You know those text battles in forums that people did? I'd smash fools. This is going to sound really, really corny. Growing up in Edmonton, Alberta Canada, what was your first exposure to hip-hop?
#NOVA ROCKAFELLER SERIES#
L.A.-based rapper Nova Rockafeller has a well-deserved reputation for being provocative, but she's actually got a decade of hard work under her belt, and just played a series of wildly successful CMJ shows in New York.Īhead of her free show tonight at the Improv, we talked with the Boardwalk/Mercury emcee about linking up with tastemaker manager Jensen Karp, rap battles and how many people she's punched in the face.
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