The third video from Chadio & The Dirty Sample‘s No Wives Club is for “Partner”, which features a smooth hook and a verse from Vancouver’s S.O.S. aka Sauce. Shot over the course of a sunny afternoon while taking a stroll down Commercial Drive, the song is about looking back on a broken relationship. The single is accompanied by a remix from Ozziechan, who provides a different, harder spin on the original with guitar and chunky drums. The video was filmed by Greg B and edited by Chadio.
If you missed the interview of The Yesmen’s Nevamind with The Bone Yard, you can now watch it in all it’s full glory here… And consider subscribing to The Bone Yard’s YouTube channel for many more interviews!
Thank you for conducting the interview, Amanda!
Thunder Bay’s Arts and Culture Alternative, The Walleye, published an article on Nevamind & Royal-T’s new album, The Yesmen, in their June issue. If you’re in Thunder Bay you can pick up a hard copy around town, or check it out on their website, or click image for larger view.
Chadio & The Dirty Sample’s No Wives Club was the #1 hip hop album at Windsor’s CJAM FM for the week of May 17-24 as well as the #4 album on their Top 30. Thanks to all the DJs at the station spinning the record.
On June 14 at 7PM EST, Nevamind will be talking with The Bone Yard about his music, including his new The Yesmen album with Royal-T. Watch the interview live on Facebook or Twitch.
Promo video courtesy of Sunday Wilde.
The second visual accompaniment for Chadio & The Dirty Sample’s No Wives Club is for the song “Pot Roast”, a straight up weed jam. The video was shot (and edited) by Chadio in his living room, where he kicks his rap flow into high gear over a string-laden, rumbling beat by The Dirty Sample. The video is short and to the point with a pair of Chadios involved in a dangerous little smoke session in his apartment, trading razor sharp raps while the smoke alarm is unplugged to avoid any interruption! The single also includes a spooky, contemplative flip from Imaginations Treetrunk mainstay Aalo Guha.
The first video from Chadio & The Dirty Sample’s No Wives Club is “Two Page Letter,” out at midnight on May 21, 2021. Directed by Nigel Berringer (@yknowlo), the video was shot over the course of two days around Chadio’s apartment and neighbourhood, roughly detailing a regular day in the life during these isolated times. The single, a love story where music wins out over the girl performed as a diary entry, is accompanied by a remix from the mysterious Vancouver-based Pasquale, who swaps out The Dirty Sample’s elegant instrumentation for a harder, grittier beat.
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Chadio & The Dirty Sample’s No Wives Club drops on May 14, but pre-orders for the cassette or digital versions of the album are now live. Order now and get the songs “Clocking In” and “Partner” (featuring SOS aka Sauce). And stream the full album right here for a limited time only:
About No Wives Club
It’s a classic team up as underground Canadian legends Chadio and The Dirty Sample join forces for their first full-length collaboration. The two rapper-producers have known each other through live shows since the early 2000s, but aside from a few remixes they hadn’t really worked together despite their desire to do so. Cut to 2020: Chadio and The Dirty Sample are both going through breakups, so No Wives Club is born. The Dirty Sample provides a classic era Vancouver sound over which Chadio is able to express how they are both feeling. It’s no surprise heartbreak, betrayal and relief are major themes of the album, but Chadio also explores the feelings of rapping as an old man in a young man’s game.
About Chadio & The Dirty Sample
Chadio cut his teeth freestyle battling on Vancouver radio show The Morning Drive By with Maximus Clean, and stood as the freestyle champ from 1998-2000. Since then he has released eight solo albums and additional projects as a member of Imaginations Treetrunk (with Azrael and Aalo Guha), Quoted Motives (with Azrael), Dance Dance Revolution Will Not Be Televised (with Azrael, Shay Faded and Cons), and 50 Fingers (with Azrael, Kaboom Atomic and the Gumshoe Strut). He has established a unique vocal style that is organic and flips easily between flows and rhyme schemes while his lyrics tend toward the personal. Chadio also started making beats in 2016, and recently he has been releasing bootleg projects and beat tapes as Pasquale.
Calgary’s The Dirty Sample started rapping at an early age, evolving through a series of aliases from Planit through Crash Silverback and Apeface to current MC alter ego Ol’ Gorilla Bones, but he found his true calling when he wasn’t getting the beats he wanted and picked up a sampler. Now with 30+ albums under his belt, The Dirty Sample has a catalogue that includes instrumental works, remix projects and numerous collaborations. His biggest hit, Raw Produce (Phonographique, 2015), received positive features from XXL, Mass Appeal, Complex, and 2DopeBoyz thanks to key single “Three Sixty Five” with Roc Marciano.
Nevamind & Royal-T (The Yesmen) release their fourth and final release with this self-titled album. Originally recorded in 2016 and finished just one week before Royal-T’s passing, the album was therapy for T and an opportunity to chill with his hip hop fam before his time was up. With debauched lyrics about sex, drugs, and the rap life, The Yesmen and guests flip through a variety of flows over Nevamind’s neck-snapping production. Aside from a current mix of the album, all ten songs remain as T would remember them, and they continue to hold up five years later.
The duo met in Thunder Bay, ON, in 2000, when chopper Royal-T competed in a rap battle where judge Nevamind—a rapper, producer, photographer and comedian—was so impressed he invited the battle rapper back to his Nevres home studio and subsequently impressed T with his own mic and production skills. The two quickly became like brothers, and would constantly “yes” each other, leading to their group name. They dropped their first album together, TBay Classics, in 2002, and followed up with NO in 2012, and the Return of Pee Wee EP in 2014. In between The Yesmen albums, Nev and T also released a number of solo albums and collabs with their fellow Deepcave fam.
Nevamind & Royal-T’s The Yesmen drops April 16 on digital, CD and cassette from Hand’Solo Records.
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