Rascalz - Northern Touch ft. Checkmate, Kardinal, Thrust & Choclair

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#SOTD | Rascalz – Northern Touch ft. Checkmate, Kardinal Offishall, Thrust & Choclair [Video]

Posted Feb 19th, 2013 by @DutchUnkle | 0 Comments

Toronto, ON – This week’s Song of the Day segment has featured some personal Canadian hip-hop picks from the 90′s.

What better way to wrap the week up than with what many would consider to be the biggest Canadian rap record to drop that decade. Of course, none other than the anthem “Northern Touch” by the Rascalz. The song was produced by DJ Kemo and it features Checkmate, Kardinal Offishall, Thrust and Choclair.

The song was featured on the Cash Crop (ViK Recordings/BMG Canada) album although it did not appear on the project’s earlier pressings. The video, available after the jump, was directed by Little X and features the lovely Jessica Rabbit aka Melyssa Ford. It was Ford’s second music video, having appeared in “The Thing To Do” by Glenn Lewis the year before in 1997.

In 1999, the Rascalz won a Juno Award for the record, and performed it live at the ceremony. The song remains one of the most recognizable records in Canadian hip-hop history.

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Rascalz – Northern Touch

Produced by DJ Kemo | Song of the Day

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@DutchUnkle | Jesse "Dutchy" Plunkett founded HipHopCanada in December of 1999 and has also been writing for the website ever since. He has done a ton of interviews for the site including these available in the archive: JD Era, Infinite, Classified, Immortal Technique, Papoose, Cassidy, Styles P, Big Lean, Adam Bomb, Hush aka Young Tony, Lil Scrappy and more. He has contributed to various other publications including The Toronto Star, The Ottawa Sun, Skratch Magazine, AllHipHop, M.O.B. Magazine and several others. Jesse is also the co-owner of Live The Culture which is the company behind the Hip-Hop Ain't Dead It Lives In The North (@LivesInTheNorth) series.