Del Cowie
Del Cowie is a Toronto-based music journalist and documentary producer who was a writer and producer for the Peabody and International Emmy Award-winning Netflix documentary series Hip Hop Evolution. Additional writing and producing credits include This Is Pop (Netflix), Black Community Mixtapes (Prime Video) and the forthcoming Paid In Full (BBC/CBC). He is currently the editor of Invisible Publishing's Bibliophonic music book series focusing on contemporary Canadian music and is currently writing This Is A Throwdown: A Toronto Hip-Hop History for ECW Press.
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Interview by Del Cowie, Exclaim!, 1 January 2006
"WHEN IT comes to real hip-hop, royalty hip-hop, I think I fit in just perfect." Arrogant comments from anyone who is not named Pete Rock, ...
Review and Interview by Del Cowie, Exclaim!, 15 February 2006
PORTAYING A HUSTLER THAT happens to rhyme has paid off for some recently, dutifully fulfilling the coke rap fetish of voyeuristic listeners. ...
Kendrick Lamar: Inside the Year's Best Album
Interview by Del Cowie, Exclaim!, 26 November 2012
KENDRICK LAMAR celebrated his 24th birthday performing a concert in Toronto. At the end of the show on a summer night in 2011 at the ...
Michie Mee is the First Lady of Toronto Hip-Hop
Retrospective and Interview by Del Cowie, Noisey, 21 April 2015
Michie Mee's mix of battle rap with a little piece of reggae led to her being the first Canadian MC to sign to a major ...
Review by Del Cowie, Exclaim!, 7 July 2015
LIKE MANY of his previous efforts, Statik Selektah's seventh album Lucky 7 features the respected producer's hard-edged East Coast production backing a mixture of veteran ...
Review by Del Cowie, Exclaim!, 2 September 2015
WHILE IT'S BILLED as a Method Man solo album, The Meth Lab is ostensibly an album on which Method Man prominently features his crew. ...
Kardinal Offishall: Five Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About Kardinal Offishall
Comment by Del Cowie, Exclaim!, 21 October 2017
KARDINAL OFFISHALL HAS been a Canadian hip-hop mainstay for almost 20 years. ...
Sharon Jones: Miss Sharon Jones! documentary captures soul singer's spirited cancer battle
Interview by Del Cowie, CBC.ca, 4 April 2019
MISS SHARON JONES! is the latest documentary from Oscar-winning director Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA). The stirring and inspiring film focuses on Sharon Jones, the ...
How Toronto's YogiTheProducer Went From Retail to Working on Kehlani's New LP
Interview by Del Cowie, Complex, 25 May 2020
With credits on Kehlani and Jessie Reyez's latest albums, the Toronto-based producer is on the rise. ...
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