Toronto rapper Haviah Mighty has won the 2019 Polaris Music Prize - the prestigious Canadian prize - with her debut album '13th Floor'. Accepting the prize she explained - "for me, the 13th floor is something that we remove from our reality because it is something that we don't understand and therefore we dismiss it". […]

The Polaris Music Prize honors the best album out of Canada and this year hip-hop is most heavily represented with Shad, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, and Haviah Mighty all getting a nod. The list also includes Toronto punk favorites PUP, electronic producer Marie Davidson, and funk-punk ensemble FET.NAT. Full shortlist of 10 albums looks like […]