Hip Hop Week Montreal on Champions of the Local Scene: #LECYPHER & No Bad Sound Studio w/ KTStress LIVE: 6pm Wed!

We are excited to have a special Hip Hop Week MTL edition of Champions of the Local Scene: Wed March 18, hosted by Sugarface Nene! We will be talking about the highlights of this week-long festival (March 15-21); which include workshops, discussion panels, and performances (+lectures) by headliners Jean Grae and Rakim as well as a prolific line-up of local Montreal artists. We will be talking live with the crew behind the monthly #LECYPHER: Live Hip Hop & Soul Jam at Le Bleury Bar.

The Hip Hop Week edition of #LECYPHER is presented by Urban Science and Hip Hop Heads Concordia and it's all happening Thursday, March 19! CJLO's Phantastiq Cypha will be broadcasting live:10pm to midnight. Urban Science, the force behind #LECYPHER,  is a 7-piece live improvisation ensemble that creates beats and loops in real time! Band leader Vincent Stephen-Ong takes this dynamic group of professional musicians (who have performed/ toured with Talib Kweli, Cirque du Soleil, Nomadic Massive, and Kalmunity to name a few) to different compostional avenues every time.This is highlighted by the equally spontaneous moves of Montreal's best b-boys and b-girls and solidified with MTL's finest DJs and tastiest Jamaican food (Boom J's Cuisine)!

Vincent will be in the studio with fellow band member KOF, who also helps run NoBad Sound Studios. NoBad Sound Studios is a project of La Maison des Jeunes de Côte-Des-Neiges and is the beneficiary organization of Hip Hop Week Montreal. It is a project dedicated to giving urban youth a space to create and record while developing new skills and talents. NoBad Sound facilitates multi-faceted growth- whether it be of one's craft, confidence or experience- and they will be fully repping this talent for Hip Hop Week at the NoBad Sound Studio Showcase at Divan Orange: Wed March 18 @ 10pm.

KTStress will be performing both in this showcase and live in our studios! KTStress is the project of Lolo Douglas, co-founder of Hip Hop Heads Concordia- a student and community run club dedicated to hip hop arts and culture at Concordia University and in Montreal at large. We will be hearing what's behind the scenes with all of these artists and their organizations plus hearing the highlights of their partnerships with Hip Hop Week as well as what lies ahead!

Finally, we will be giving away a set of tickets to Jean Grae and possibly sharing an early-bird code for a few lucky CJLO listeners to go full force into #LECYPHER! We are pumped! Get ready to get tuned- This is all happening Wed, March 18- 6-7pm- Champions of the Local Scene hosted by Sugarface Nene. For more information, visit Hip Hop Week Montreal on the web and tune into Champs to hear about HHW from the artists themselves- Want even more inspiration-? Check out additional CJLO HHW picks by Zachary Goldberg and Sugarface Nene! DO IT.