We were pretty excited at the opportunity to link up with hip-hop legend Choclair & up and coming rapper CVSS. Now, most will remember that we recently featured CVSS in our Discovery column a few months back. Now, we're here with the opportunity and blessing of featuring him alongside Choclair as one of our four covers for this issue. While they're definitely rolling together, we have two separate features that are running together here, and it'll give you the opportunity to learn not only what these two are doing separately, but just what they've got cooking together. It's always a positive thing to see our legends ushering in the newcomers, and that's just what's happening here. Check out there features below!
U.G. Digital Mag: I appreciate you man. I know you have a million things going on. You’ve done so much for hip-hop. It’s good to connect, and I thank you for taking the time out with me today to talk.
Choclair: I appreciate that man. Everybody is calling me now. I’m doing stuff at all hours of the day. I get in at 11am, and then they want me right back out.
U.G. Digital Mag: You’ve cemented a history in hip-hop and built something that will always be highly reveled. You’ve done so much to build the landscape of hip-hop in Canada, more specifically the Toronto area. Where does that sit in your mind 20+ years later.
Choclair: It’s weird because I’m always looking at progression. I never really look back unless someone comes up and tells me how they listened to me years ago. It never really dawns on me until that happens. For example, Thursday Jay-Z was here. I’m like, watching his show in awe. He’s playing all these tunes from back in the day. Then there’s that random guy that you hi-five, and he knew who I was as an artist. He was telling me I did things for him that Jay did for me. He’s saying he’s been listening to me forever, and I’m saying the same about Jay. I haven’t fully absorbed it, but I understand it.
U.G. Digital Mag: It speaks to how humble you are that it hasn’t gone to your head.
Choclair: The thing is, what I enjoy is being a people person. I can meet someone new and I’m a fan of good people. I met this guy who could do any kind of math just like that in his head. He’s like a calculator, and that’s dope to me. I’m a fan of people who can do things like that. There’s always something else someone is doing that I wish I could do. I wish I could do math in my head like that.
Choclair