Barboza Presents
Cadence Weapon
with Special Guests
May 16
Doors: 7:00 PM
21 & Over
Barboza
May 16, 2024
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DateMay 16, 2024
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Doors Open7:00 PM
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VenueBarboza
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Ticket Prices$17.00 - $20.00
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On SaleOn Sale Now
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Ages21 & Over
Through his urgent rap anthems, Cadence Weapon captures the dizzying contradictions of
modern culture and technology with both precision and irreverence. The Hamilton-based rapper,
producer, former poet laureate, and author of Bedroom Rapper (2022) also known as Rollie
Pemberton got his musical start while careening through the rap internet as a teenager in
Edmonton, Canada. He emerged as an artist who gave voice to issues of systemic inequality
and racial disparity, particularly among Canada’s Black communities, with his fifth album Parallel
World, which won the 2021 Polaris Prize.
Now, with his sixth studio album ROLLERCOASTER, Pemberton expands his incisive
commentary to the sprawling internet—a former utopian playground that’s turned into a capitalist
junkyard—to remind users they don’t have to just “go along for the ride,” he says. The hyperpop
and electro-inspired production of ROLLERCOASTER is intended to replicate the internet’s
“sensory overload” and exhibits his growing skills in merging socio-political commentary and
insurgent rap with humor and pop sensibility. Despite its bleak portrait of today’s digital attention
economy, ROLLERCOASTER still fits into a long lineage of Black electronic artists using music
to forge Black futures