The song was produced by Jorun and the video was directed by Sara St. Onge, who also did “Step to a T-Rex” for Ghettosocks. The video isn’t just available on YouTube, MySpace and Facebook, but “Cream of Wheat” is also currently in rotation on Much Music in Canada. Please help Wordburglar receive more airplay by requesting the video from Much Music at any of the following email address:

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Saskatoon, SK emcee Epic first connected with Hand’Solo Records in 2003 for the posse cut “Citizens Are Gifted” off the Bassments of Badmen: Volume 2 compilation, but the relationship is finally official with Aging Is What Friends Do Together, an apt title for this collection of songs about “sleeping shirts,” “rhyming into a four track” and “walking around town” that the nearly 40-year old rapper recorded with the assistance of a number of collaborators he has connected with during his hip hop journeys.

However, Aging Is What Friends Do Together isn’t Epic’s first album. Far from it. Since 2001, Epic has honed his honest and humourous heartfelt rhymes about home, hip hop and hockey (just check new fan favourite “Ah Hemsky”) over two solo albums (8:30 in Newfoundland and Local Only), a vinyl EP (Heater in My Truck), and a collaboration album with Homesick Nomad of Cavemen Speak (Epic & Nomad), all on Clotheshorse Records.

In that time, Epic has appeared on a variety of radio shows, from Sook Yin Lee’s CBC Radio show Definitely Not the Opera to Mike Nardone’s legendary L.A. radio show We Came From Beyond, as well as charting on college radio stations across Canada. Over the past five years, Epic has also performed across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Montague, PEI, and in 15 U.S. states as well as doing two successful tours of Europe, including stopovers in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Russia, where he was only the third North American rapper to ever perform in Moscow.

It’s this commitment to touring that made it possible for Epic to connect with the international cast of characters appearing on Aging Is What Friends Do Together. Sharing mic time with Epic are esteemed underground artists such as Nomad from Belgium, Roma from France, Americans Bleubird and MC Homeless, and Canadian emcees Touch, Ira Lee and Kay the Aquanaut, with production from Switzerland’s Mattr, the U.S.’s Variax, and Canucks soso, Maki, Kutdown, Fresh Kils and Factor.

Listen to Aging Is What Friends Do Together and fall in love with a unique voice and flow that has become as recognizable in hip hop as Epic’s head of gray hair.

Hand’Solo Records Discography:

Various – Bassments of Badmen: Volume 2
Epic – Aging is what friends do together

Audio Samples:

Epic - “rhyming into a four track” featuring Touch
Epic - “the city (factor mix)”

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Track Listing:

1) thirty-five
2) touch interlude
3) ah hemsky
4) i only like rap
5) some things
6) rhyming into a four track (feat. touch)
7) sleeping shirts
8) the city (factor mix)
9) learning to let go (feat. nomad, andre, and roma)
10) music appreciation II (feat. bleubird)
11) move home
12) side effects (feat. mc homeless, archer hymnz & kay the aquanaut)
13) walking around town
Bonus Tracks
14) trading kyoto credits (feat. features maki & ira lee.)
15) the city (mattr mix)

Production:

4, 5, 10, 11, 13 by soso. 3, 7, 14 by maki. 1 by kutdown. 6 by kils. 8 by factor. 9 by roma. 12 by variax. 15 by mattr.

Hand’Solo Bios:

Epic

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handsolo@primus.ca

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Wordburglar’s sophomore album features collaborations with LA Symphony & Quannum Projects member Pigeon John, superstar producer Jorun Bombay (Buck 65, Classified), and Toronto indie sensation and Herbaliser associate member More or Les, as well as members of the Canadian underground crews Backburner and Alpha Flight.

Track Listing:

1. Diagnosis
2. The WB
3. Hat Trick
4. Buttafly
5. Breeze w/ Pigeon John
6. Sayin’ Raps
7. Scova Notions
8. Eight Rappers & The Mason w/ Jesse Dangerously, Mr Bix, Jay Bizzy, Ghettosocks, Cal, Ginzu 333 & Jorun Bombay
9. Word Owner
10. Let’s Get Romantical
11. Slobberknocker
12. Layman’s Terms
13. The Route
14. Rhymes With I’m
15. Hermaphromic
16. Masonry
17. Spit Fresh w/ More or Les
18. Cream of Wheat
19. Fun Is Number One (Eat a Parrot) w/ Selfhelp & Thesis Sahib of Bending Mouth
20. End Smartly

Hand’Solo Bios:

Wordburglar

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(HAN008 - 2005)

Return of the Sex Rap! Cock Dynamiks is a compilation of sensual Canadian hip hop from many of the best in Canadian hip hop. Originally conceived by “Casa-Nova Scotians” Buck 65 and Moves back in 1997, and early the next year Hand’Solo Records released their cross-Canada compilation as a cassette-only release limited to 200 copies. It spawned a mini-tour, and exclusive tracks by the likes of Buck 65, Moka Only, Tachichi, Knowself, Ishkan, Moves and their alter egos, have made the cassette a highly sought-after release for fans of these artists. With 2005 as the Year of the Cock in the Chinese calendar, it seems only appropriate to make this classic rarity available again. Hand’Solo Records has remastered the compilation’s original 14 tracks, added new artwork, and finally gives Cock Dynamiks the CD release it always deserved.

TRACK LISTING:

1. The Big Chief - Uncle Climax (produced by Buck 65 / cuts by DJ Critical)
2. Drywalls - Dr Tangent (produced by Planet P / cuts by DJ Serious)
3. Dynamite Dynamik - Knowself (produced by Erotic Moves / cuts by Erotic Moves)
4. Hallelujah - Sexual Moves (produced by Sexual Moves)
5. Ass Glazer - Asscalator (produced by Sherman Flowers / cuts by Sherman Flowers)
6. Dirty Hanes Freestyle - Dirty Hanes (produced by Sensual Moves)
7. Wax Job - Moka Only & J-Ras (produced by Che Imperial & Moka Only)
8. Pulverization - SicSexEd (produced by Erotic Moves / cuts by Erotic Moves)
9. The Three X’s - Electric O & Ishkan (produced by String B)
10. The Bum Rap - Stinkin’ Rich (produced by Tantric Moves)
11. C19H28O2 - Recyclone (produced by Removes / cuts by Removes)
12. The Ark - Moka Only (produced by Che Imperial & Moka Only)
13. Down for the Pump Stroke - Ballin’ Peen (produced by Sherman Flowers / cuts by Sherman Flowers)
14. Siclimax - SicSexEd & Uncle Climax (produced by Sexual Moves / cuts by Sexual Moves)

With…
Buck 65 as Uncle Climax, DJ Critical, Stinkin’ Rich and himself
DJ Moves as Erotic Moves, Sexual Moves, Sensual Moves, Tantric Moves and Removes
Tachichi as SicSexEd
Kunga 219 as Ass Glazer
Gordski as Ballin’Peen
Vandal as Dr Tangent
Fritz the Cat as Dirty Hanes
and everyone else as themselves.

Hand’Solo Bios:

Buck 65
Moka Only
Tachichi & Moves

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