Epic ranks highly among musicians most listened to by BYLers. His sincerity, unorthodox flow, and willingness to look at both personal and political matters make him one of the most captivating rappers in today’s scene. So, I was disheartened to hear that he’s throwing in the towel. Over on the ugsmag.com messageboard, Epic writes:
hey everyone just want to give Saskatoon fans the heads up that this may be my last show ever. don’t want to call it a retirement show because i may change my mind 9 months from now, i probably will. But the fact of the matter is that this may be a good time to call it finished.
i am still gonna go to rap shows and listen to rap and go on open mics and even rap my songs outside shows and what not. It’s been one hell of a strange and fun run, i couldn’t believe when i first rapped outside saskatoon and this music took us from moscow to la saskatoon to edmonton. i have met alot of amazing people. i got so many opportunities that other people never got so i am not gonna complain about how rap did me so wrong. for every 1 thing that went down wrong 15 things went down right. i got so much support from chaps and soso and nolto and factor and kay and noyz. recently from Thomas Quinlon and han solo records. (it is not fair to thomas when i turn down video fact opportunities or mazazine interviews) I show more love when these people are not around by listening to there cd’s so much. i must have listed to nomads cd over 100 times. I just want to say that i have always been 100% heart on the mic. i am doing one more song over a factor beat that i have been working on for the past 10 months. other than that i won’t be recording for awhile. i have a tear in my eye as i write this but i will still punch you in the mouth.
Take a look at a few of clips of him rapping. Here with Pip Skid doing “All up in this piece:”
“Another left wing peace song” with Nomad:
And, finally, “Ah Hemsky;”
