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Drake big winner at Stylus Awards
Toronto hip hop star takes three major prizes at annual DJ gala.
Drake, Deadmau5 and Shawn
Desman were among the prize
winners in the 2011 Stylus
Awards, a celebration of DJ
talent in Canada staged Monday
night at Toronto’s Queen
Elizabeth Theatre.
Toronto’s Witrespect and Drake
won the Fan Choice categories
for Club DJ and Artist of the
Year, respectively, while Drake’s
“Miss Me”, featuring Lil’ Wayne,
was named Canadian Hip Hop
Single of the Year.
Canadian R&B Single of the Year, “You Can Have it All”, went to JRDN, while Desman took out Canadian
Dance/Pop Single of the Year for “Night Like This.”
Other winners:
House DJ of the Year: JoJo Flores (Montreal); Electro DJ of the Year: Deadmau5 (Toronto); Dance DJ of
the Year: 4 Korners (Toronto); DJ Remix of the Year: Kap n Kirk & Joe Ghost Stromae for “Te Quiero”
(Kap n Kirk, Joe Ghost remix); Drake for “Boi -1 da Over”; Female DJ of the Year: Lissa Monet (Toronto).
This year’s Stylus Hall of Fame inductees were DJ/rromoter Ron Nelson, and singer/songwriter Maestro
Fresh Wes.
Published: May 31, 2011
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Nominees for the 2011 Stylus Awards announced
The Stylus Awards is an annual event that recognizes DJs and the most influential players in
urban and club culture from across the country. Presented by Pioneer this year, the awards will
take place at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on May 30th.
Among the nominees are some of Canadian music’s biggest names, including Drake, Deadmau5,
Kardinal Offishall, Shad, A-Trak and Classified, as well as the leading DJs across the country.
And seeing as he is the host of RapCity, we’ve got to give props out to our host, Canada’s party
animal T-RexXx, who is up for Club MC of the Year.
Check out the full list of nominees below.
Fan Choice Club DJ of the Yearpresented by Pioneer DJ
4 Korners – Toronto
A Trak – Montreal
Deadmau5 – Toronto
Hedspin – Vancouver
Ill Kidz – Toronto
Payce – Montreal
Team Canada – Montreal
Wristpect – Toronto
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Fan Choice Artist of the Year
Classified
Danny Fernandes
Drake
JRDN
Keshia Chante
Melanie Fiona
Shad
Shawn Desman
Canadian Hip Hop Single of the Year
A Game – What Chu Saying
Charlie Brown – Reality ft. P Reign, JRDN, Belly, Big Lean
Drake – Miss Me ft Lil’ Wayne
JD Era – Fame and Fortune ft. Lokz
Kardinal Offishall – The Anthem
Rich Kidd – Take It Slow
Shad – Rose Garden
Son Real – Already There ft. Rich Kidd
Canadian R&B Single of the Year
Andreena Mill – La La La
Glenn Lewis - Good One
JRDN – You Can Have it All
Kim Davis – I Don’t Need A Hero
Melanie Fiona – Ay Yo
Ray Robinson – Just For The Night ft. Kid Kut
Tanika Charles – Silly Happy Wild
Untitled – Island Girl ft Kardinal Offishall
Canadian Dance/Pop Single of the Year
Aleesia – Not That Girl
BoomBox Saints – She Got It
Danny Fernandes – Automatic
Divine Brown – Sunglasses, (Cajjmere Wray Tribal Luv Remix)
Keshia Chante – Table Dancer
Melanie Fiona – It Kills Me Remix (The Headbanga Remix)
Mia Martina – Stereo Love
Shawn Desman – Night Like This
Excerpt from a full list.
Published: April 4, 2011
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Canadian Hip Hop Artists, DJs (And Russell Peters) Share Their Favourite
Summertime Songs
The 2011 Stylus Awards went down at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Monday, May 30th.
The high-energy event was packed with the best hip hop artists and DJs Canada has to offer.
George was there and presented an award for Electro DJ of the Year. That award went to
Deadmau5, an artist we feature on The Strombo Show all the time.
We had a chance to catch up with many of the biggest names at the show (Russell Peters, Jully
Black, Reema Major, Michie Mee, Maestro Fresh Wes Williams, Lissa Monet, etc.), and asked
them to share their favourite Summertime songs, best new releases, last albums purchased,
and best tweeters out there...
Published: June 2, 2011
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Stylus gives good spin
Annual DJ-awards gala gets bigger each year, with a full weekend of parties and panels leading up to
Monday’s ceremony.
BY: The Grid AND Denise Benson
Nicki Minaj's go-to girl, Diamond Kuts, appears at a live Q&A this Saturday as part of Stylus SpinFest.
Much like the culture itself, the annual Stylus SpinFest celebrating DJs and diverse club music
grows larger and more extensive with each year. The sixth annual edition runs today (May 27)
through Monday (May 30), and includes panel discussions, parties, the anchoring Stylus Awards
and more.
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Things kick off tonight at Wrongbar (1279 Queen W.), when veteran NYC DJ Tony Touch
headlines Can I Kick It? alongside T.O.’s DJ Agile and Sweet Touch Foundation for an eve of
hip-hop, old school, reggae, house and Latin vibes. Cover is $20 before midnight.
A mixtape and compilation king who’s sold more than a million albums internationally, Touch
returns Saturday as a keynote speaker at It Starts With the DJ 4.0, a day-long conference to be
held at Ryerson’s Eaton Lecture Theatre (80 Gould, second floor). He’ll speak from 12:30-1:45
p.m., followed by panel discussions on topics including marketing and creating relationships
within the industry. Also exciting is a 3 p.m. keynote interview with Diamond Kuts, Philly
DJ/producer and host of BET show The Deal. Diamond Kuts is also the official DJ for Nicki
Minaj, so no doubt she’ll have much to say. $5 gets you in for a full day of listening and
learning.
Sunday eve brings with it the 2011 Stylus Pre-Award Show Nominee Party at The Mod Club
(722 College). On the decks this night are three 2011 Stylus nominees, DJ Law, Spoonz and DJ
Tilt, with live performances courtesy of Glenn Lewis, JD Era, A Game and Tanika Charles a.k.a.
Mz.Chawls with her band The Wonderfuls. $10 before 10pm, $15 after.
Monday, it’s the main event as the sixth annual Stylus Awards move to the large, beautiful
Queen Elizabeth Theatre at Exhibition Place (190 Princes’ Blvd.). With almost 30 awards to be
handed out—including for Female DJ of the Year, College Radio Show, genre and city/region
specific scenes and more—a whole lot of people will be celebrated. Check the Stylus Awards
site for a full list of categories, performers and to vote in the Fan Choice Artist of the Year and
Club DJ of the Year award. Advance tickets are $40, available at Ticketbreak.com. The official
afterparty follows at Maro Supper Club (135 Liberty), with nominated DJs Clymaxxx, Ritz, P
Plus and Dirty Dale. $20, or free before midnight with a ticket from the Awards show.
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Stylus Awards Line Up Performances by Rich Kidd, JRDN for 2011
Toronto Ceremony
By Alex HudsonLast year, beloved Canadian rapper Drake came out on top at the 2010 instalment of the
Stylus Awards. This year, the Stylus Group will honour another batch of our country's best DJs and MCs
during a ceremony at Toronto's Queen Elizabeth Theatre on May 30.
This will be the main event of SpinFest, a four-day event that celebrates Canada's DJs and club culture.
The sixth instalment of the annual award show will feature performances from Reema Major, Canadian
Idol contestant JRDN, Rich Kidd, and a mashup featuring Danny Fernandes and Aleesia.
Tickets to the event cost $40, and $5 from each ticket sold will go to help the people of Japan in the
wake of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country back in March. Buy tickets from
Ticketbreak.
You can check out the award categories over at the Stylus Group's website. You can also vote for the Fan
Choice Artist of the Year and the Fan Choice Club DJ of the Year. Nominees for the former category
include Drake, Shad and Classified, while Deadmau5 is up for the latter.
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Network with the pros at It Starts With the DJ
Fortune Sound Club (147 East Pender Street) hosts It Starts With the DJ, an industry
conference with an urban spin, on Saturday (May 7).
“The conference is really geared towards anybody who’s interested in the music industry,”
organizer David “Click” Cox told the Straight. “It’s an avenue to network at a very affordable
cost.”
For a mere 10 bucks, attendees get a forum on marketing with Kyle Kraft of Battle Axe Music,
among others; a one-on-one session with luminaries like DJ Marvel—“Like speed dating,” said
Cox, “where you can sit down with somebody who’s been in the industry for a while, and pick
their brains”—and a keynote speech from no less than Fugees, Busta Rhymes, and Wu-Tang
Clan producer and MC Diamond D. “Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop came out in ”˜92,” said Cox of
D’s debut, “and that is one of the biggest, classic albums of all time.”
Doors open at 12 noon.
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STYLUS AWARDS FOUNDER OFFERS AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT
THIS YEAR'S UPCOMING SHOW
Recognizing and celebrating DJ talent is the reason Mike Zafiris launched the Stylus Awards six years ago. This year
the festival, conference and awards show combined will span four days and stretch between Vancouver, Montreal
and Toronto. It will also feature new categories and a renewed focus on recognizing local artists alongside DJs.
Amidst his hectic day-to-day getting ready for the festival just over a month away, Zafiris checked in with Urbanology
Magazine to provide a behind the scenes look at Stylus.
WHAT CAN HIP-HOP FANS LOOK FORWARD TO FROM THE AWARDS THIS YEAR?
We keep getting bigger which is really exciting. The bar keeps getting higher and higher and the pressure kicks in,
right? We're going back to the same venue because we have such a good relationship there and we feel like that's
kinda our home now. This will be our third year in a row there. And the cool thing that we've tried to do this year is
expand that urban market and that DJ culture and try to incorporate all the genres of music that are really having a
huge impact now in urban music and just in music in general and right now kinda seems like the faster club, electro
style beat has kicked in and started to penetrate itself into all genres of music including hip-hop and R&B. So we're
trying to pay homage to that side of things as well. We've got new categories that kind of encompass that. The other
mandate that we tried to do for this year is we'vevreally tried to bring in the artist side of things... what we want to do
is make sure that we don't leave our local or independent artists behind and really shed some light on those guys. We
have tried to incorporate a lot more artist categories and one that we're really excited about this year, we separated
the mixtape categories, so now, we got the DJ mixtape and we've got the artist mixtape, we got a fan choice artist of
the year, and pop/dance record is a new category.
WHAT HAVE BEEN SOME OF THE MAJOR SUCCESSES OF STYLUS OVER THE YEARS?
We're in our sixth year, so now you can actually look back and start to be like remember when. Not to say that we're
old by any means and this thing has been around forever. In the last five years we've had some amazing DJs and
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artists bless us by performing, presenting, appearing, accepting an award or being nominated. We look back at our
first year pictures and sure enough, we got Drake presenting an award to Starting From Scratch. At that time people
knew Drake as a young actor on "Degrassi High". You know we had Team Canada perform their mash-up and at that
time the mash-up thing really wasn't a huge part of the DJ kind of musical sound, it was just on the come up. Artists
like Jahvon, artists like A-Game have all come through our stage and performed and now are really starting to get
some major recognition. Melanie Fiona been there, Sean Desman been there, Danny Fernandes -- I mean most of
today's biggest
artists... Even Boi-1Da, T-Minus -- a lot of those beats you used to hear in the first couple of years when we had the
categories, just like the instrumental background music that was being played was from these producers. Rich Kidd -there's so many, the list goes on and on and on.
WHAT HAVE BEEN THE MAJOR CHALLENGES IN PRODUCING SUCH A WIDE-SCALE FESTIVAL?
When you get into this level of producing an awards show, you can't do it obviously without the support of the
community and... without the support of companies who want to sponsor. The biggest struggle has always been to
kind of find that line where you're not really offending either side... The other struggle is the categories. It's such a
huge pool of talent -- artist wise, DJ wise, producers -- but you can't have 15 and 20 nominees... So, that's the other
difficult part that only six people get nominated when you know there's more than six incredible DJs.
APART FROM THE AWARDS AND THE CONFERENCE WHAT CAN PEOPLE EXPECT FROM SPINFEST?
Well we try every year to shed light outside of this country so people can see what we're doing inside this country
because you know outside of Canada there's always this skepticism or this perception that you know Canada doesn't
really have this incredible club scene or this DJ scene or this artist scene... This year we just locked in Mark Ronson,
who is a super DJ/producer. He's coming to kick-off the whole SpinFest weekend on the Friday night. He will be
speaking at the conference on the Saturday, so that brings in that international flavour to the awards show. Then just
a bunch of parties that we do -- the barbecue for all the DJs across the country where they get to come just lay back
and mingle, it's just a really laid back kind of hang-out kind of session. The Sunday night pre-awards show and
concert -- we're doing that at The MOD Club again this year -- [it's] really another opportunity for the nominees to
come out and perform the singles that they are nominated for and [for people] to see some DJs who are nominated in
different categories.
THE VOTING POLLS OPENED TO THE PUBLIC AWHILE BACK. WHY DOES STYLUS CHOOSE TO ENGAGE
THE PUBLIC IN THE VOTING PROCESS?
Well what we like to do is we like to have the fans be a part of not necessarily who wins but who should be
nominated. We need to start that early because every year our numbers grow. This year we hit 13,500 voters which
by far has been our biggest number ever. It takes about four to five minutes. The fact that they're willing to sit there,
go through the categories... makes us feel good.
The cool thing is, we get votes from literally all over the world because a DJ, and the artists now, have such a strong
fan base that when they travel it's easy to pick up a name... Come voting times, the campaigns are crazy and you
know we get surprised every year when we see votes from Germany coming in... Italy, South Africa, like they just
come from everywhere.
WITH THE FESTIVAL A MONTH AND A HALF AWAY, WHAT DOES YOUR TYPICAL DAY LOOK LIKE?
There's a lot of damage control right now that happens. It's funny because in the business world you have these
meetings specificaly to figure out how everything is going to fall into place and then you spend the next three months
fixing what can't be done and why that can't work and now trying to redo everything again. Every day is different and
there will always be surprises that come up. Thank goodness we're in our sixth year so we kind of expect the
unexpected but every year there's something that just drops on your lap that we didn't even plan for. Two years ago,
four weeks before the awards show the venue where we were going to do it couldn't house it and here we are with a
sold out awards show and nowhere to go. You get things like that, artists who you're constantly waiting for
confirmation for performances. They can do it and then decline or decline and then say they're available.
STYLUS IS KNOWN TO BE THE ONLY INSTITUTION RECOGNIZING DJ TALENT IN CANADA. WHY IS THIS
IMPORTANT TO YOU?
I DJ'd college radio on CHRY for about seven to eight years and then I worked at a record
company for a few years. I started a record pool back in 1993 which was called Flavor Pool. It was kind of the same
idea, a record pool is kind of like a book club where you would go and work with all of the record companies and get
brand new hip-hop and R&B music and then you would get that music out to all the clubs and radio DJs... We just
figured we gotta do something and we gotta get the record companies involved because they've got all these artists
and they didn't know what to do with them so that's what started Flavor Pool. That's kind of been my mentality
throughout everything. With the awards show it's the same idea, you got all these great DJs and artists -- these DJs
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were able to travel all over Canada and play for over 2 to 3,000 people and we're not recognizing them which was
kind of weird. We have radio awards shows; we have rock and roll awards shows that take care of all those kind of
genres so why not have something for the DJs? That's really where it all kind of started from.
FINALLY, AS FOUNDER OF STYLUS, HAVING WATCHED THE FESTIVAL GROW OVER THE LAST SIX
YEARS, WHAT ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF?
Honestly I think it was last year, it was last year looking out and seeing 1,200 people. We've always been sold out but
it was our second year there. It was that, combined with Drake being able to accept an award and be there two
weeks before the album dropped. I mean at that moment Drake was the biggest artist in the world and there was no
doubt about it. So the timing was just phenomenal.
When we got word that he was going to be coming down and then when you got to see him accepting an award and
making a speech and just mentioning Stylus Awards in the speech... it just felt like wow -- this is a big moment for us,
a really, really big moment for us and that kind of felt good, it felt really good.
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Photos of the 2011 Stylus Awards
Flying a bit under the radar despite some A-list (at least by Canadian standards) guests was the 2011
Stylus Awards, held earlier this week at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Founded in 2006 to celebrate and
reward DJ talent in Canada, the event has steadily increased in scale. Here's a list of the 2011 winners:
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Fan Choice Award: Drake
Artist of the Year: Drake
Club DJ: Wristpect
Canadian R&B single of the year: "You Can Have It All" by JRDN
Canadian Dance/Pop Single: "Night Like This" by Shawn Desman
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Published: June 2, 2011
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