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PegCity hollas at Whistler Mood Ruff doing their own stunts at Garfıs

Mood Ruff - I Do My Own Stunts [Slo Coach Records/urbnet records]
By NA / 2005-07-06


Who: Mood Ruff with Ink Operated feat. Caspian and DJ Wunderkut
Where: Garfinkelıs
When: Sunday, July 10

The brothers from different mothers of Mood Ruff will be throwing down at Garfinkelıs this Sunday night.

The Winnipeg-based hip-hop crew of Odario, Spitz, Icqri and newest member Breakz is hot on the release of latest studio album I Do My Own Stunts, which hit the streets this past May.

Ruff dates back to their high school days in the early 1990s, a time when the crewmembers would congregate in their parentsı basements to throw down on a karaoke machine.

Since then, the Ruff members have grown to be pillars of their local hip-hop community, founding the PegCity Holla urban music festival in 1997, the same year they launched their own label Slo Coach Recordings.

Ruffıs decade-plus history has given them a lot to work with, both lyrically and sonically.

History features strongly on the albumıs first video release for the single ORocketship,ı which intersperses current hang-out footage in a sunny apartment with nostalgic childhood footage, set to lyrics celebrating the best things in life and an infectious groovy bass line.

Overall, OStuntsı has been lauded for its laidback rhyme delivery over a diverse collection of jazzy-samples and bass lines, a close cousin to the recent work of Toronto hip-hopper K-Os, with whom the Ruff crew has shared the stage.

Ruff will be joined at Garfıs by Surrey hip-hop crew Ink Operated, a group best known for producing the Canucks booster anthem OPlayoff Pushı back in the good old hockey days, and West Coast scratchmaster DJ Wundercut.