Words By Prop Jay

During his younger years, Kardinal was a beast on the mic. Recently, he has seemingly gone the way of the dollar sign and has fallen from the high regard that I once held him in. In 2008, he released what could have been an album full of hits as he finally had a real financial backing. Instead, he deviated towards stylings that might be regarded as “Konvict Music.” Beyond these statements I don’t want to even discuss anything he has done post-2005.

The song above was an example of a hidden gem on his sophmore release from 2001, Quest for Fire: Firestarter, Vol. 1. Overall, the song got a moderate amount of love from Canada’s Rap City. But we only have 32 million people up here and sometimes I feel like only 10,000 would even listen to rap anyways. As a result, the album and this song remained buried. Kardinal here is in his prime, and brings a reggae element to his rap game which always adds distinction to the music he chooses to produce, on the mic & behind the boards.

Here he speaks of his troubles “tryin to sign a deal” with shady record labels and on to his views on life and “how he’s trying to do the best he can do” with what he’s got on the streets of his hometown of Toronto. To top this track off Glenn Lewis, another Toronto resident, provides a smooth sound to the hook and facilitates Kardinal’s messages by setting the tone for the track right away during the intro. Kardinal has made a lot of good music over the years, but since he is Canadian he is judged upon the countries ill-deserved poor reputation at the rap game. Stiil, I will save that post for another time. This track is just a sample of an overall better than average album.

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Kardinal Offishall Feat. Glenn Lewis – “G Walkin”

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