Cadence Weapon births Afterparty Babies :: Music News :: Articles

Apparently there is an entire subcategory of human existence that depends on rump-shakin’ boom bap in the way captive pandas require pornography. Canadian hip-hop artist Rollie Pemberton, a.k.a. Cadence Weapon, should probably receive some kind of scientific grant for discovering this classification, Afterparty Babies, also the name of his sophomore CD, set to drop March 4 on Anti-/Epitaph (Upper Class/EMI in Canada, Upper Class/Big Dada in the UK and Europe).

Pemberton, 21, “wanted to make music that afterparty babies are created to,” according to an official statement promulgating his commitment to the perpetuation of said group (a diverse, though scattershot category of person, many of whom are unknowingly half related to each other.). Anyway, Cadence didn’t actually expound on the matter, besides adding that the 14-track booty-rocker is for “all the accidents out there,” and we shouldn’t pretend to be experts on anything other than the music itself, so we’ll move on.

Since his Polaris award-nominated debut Breaking Kayfabe in 2005, Pemberton – a former Pitchfork contributor – has mingled with all manner of credible folks, including Jurassic 5, Lady Sovereign, New Pornographers, The Klaxons, Hot Chip and Final Fantasy – whom he lost the aforementioned Polaris Prize to, and just finished touring with. Good sport! From here on out he’s got a couple UK shows before returning to his northern North American homeland.

Here’s the track list – hopefully song four is a current-events relevant reference to Pogs.

Afterparty Babies tracklist:
1. - Do I Miss My Friends?
2. - In Search of the Youth Crew
3. - True Story
4. - Limited Edition OJ Slammer
5. - Juliann Wilding
6. - Real Estate
7. - Messages Matter
8 - Your Hair's Not Clothes!
9. - Tattoos (And What They Really Feel Like)
10. - The New Fashion
11. - Getting Dumb
12. - House Music
13. - Unsuccessful Club Nights
14. - We Move Away