It’s a bright, sunny morning when Elle Varner strolls into Entertainment One’s (eOne) Toronto headquarters wearing a burnt orange wrap dress and strappy stiletto heels. She exudes a quiet confidence, stopping to give hugs and handshakes to everyone on the Urbanology team before sitting down and picking up her phone. It’s the same kind of confidence and poise she exhibits in the visual for her latest single “Pour Me” featuring Wale where she’s seen lying alongside a python, completely unbothered.
In the second of a series of interviews with winners from the last three Battle of the Beat Makers, Urbanology Magazine talks with Lucyclubhouse, who made history as the youngest winner of Battle of the Beat Makers in 2018.
In the first of a series of interviews with winners from the last three Battle of the Beat Makers, Urbanology Magazine talks with Bennie D about the importance of beat battles, his beat making process and why he calls his music “energetic pain.”
The chart-topping New Orleans producer sits down with Urbanology Magazine to talk breaking into today’s music industry, the rise of the Insta-celebrity and why Cash Money Records was both a gift and a curse for hip-hop.
During Battle of the Beat Makers 2018, Grammy-award winning producer !llmind sat down to talk falling in love with producing, navigating the music business and why, despite all his accomplishments, he still tells himself daily that he ‘ain’t shit.’
Kranium talks working with Tory Lanez, travelling to Ghana and getting dancehall the respect it deserves.
THEY.’s Drew Love and Dante Jones talk musical influences, being their most authentic self and what it means to live for something.
With the right attitude, a strong work-ethic, and a little bit of luck, dreams can really come true. Chase Wav’s journey at the 2016 Battle of the Beat Makers competition is evidence of this.
When you encounter an artist, who has sold millions of records worldwide, you might expect there to be bit of ego or larger than…