Canadian hip hop developed much more slowly than the rock music scene. Although Canada had hip hop artists right from the early days of the scene, the infrastructure simply wasn’t there to get their music to the record-buying public. Even Toronto — Canada’s largest city and one of its most multicultural — had difficulty getting an urban music station on the radio airwaves until 2000. As a result, if a Canadian hip-hop artist could get signed, it was very difficult for them to get exposure, even if their videos were played on Much Music.

 

Terra Renee is not your ordinary 26 year old artist, she steps above and beyond that. Her creativity both on the mic and on the canvas is a true work of art. On a regular day, you can catch terra painting away singing out sweet melodies as she works, but by night, the paint brush gets traded for the good old pen and pad.

Hip Hop culture first appeared in Brazil in the early 80s a little after hip hop appeared in the U.S. São Paulo was the most prominent location for Hip Hop when it first came out. So how did hip hop get spread around Brazil?