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🔌🔊 PRESS PLAY: Cee and Po3 wrap up 2018 with some "Bad Habits" 🔊 💵

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🔌🔊 PRESS PLAY: Cee and Po3 wrap up 2018 with some "Bad Habits" 🔊 💵

An album a decade in the making, Montreal-via-Melbourne's Cee and Oakland-via-New Mexico's Po3 have delivered a soulful, authentic, introspective and head noddin' project in "Bad Habits".

Conceived in 2008 in the Bay Area after a collaboration, work begun on the project in early 2015. What started as a collaborative EP quickly turned into a 15 track, full-length album as Cee and Po3's creative synergy blossomed.

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📱🔊 PRESS PLAY: Cee drops FX-heavy visual for "Net Neutral" 🔊 💻

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📱🔊 PRESS PLAY: Cee drops FX-heavy visual for "Net Neutral" 🔊 💻

Back in December, Cee dropped his 12th single of 2017, "Net Neutral". Once again helmed by Notion, soulful harmonies provided the backdrop for Cee's timely bars, touching on the recent Net Neutrality repeal, social media addiction and cryptocurrency, all contributing to an appropriate year-end wrap up.

Now Cee has teamed up with King Richard yet again for the FX and message-heavy visuals, shot in Montreal.

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🏃🔊 PRESS PLAY: Notion gets Hurt; Cee and Myer Clarity run it 🔊 🏃

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🏃🔊 PRESS PLAY: Notion gets Hurt; Cee and Myer Clarity run it 🔊 🏃

Once again helmed by King Richard with assistance from 9 Block Productions, "Hurt" follows the four MCs through a dusty Quebec summer, with Notion commandeering a beat up vehicle picking up hitchhiking rappers while they all speak their truth about the pain in their respective lives. Jonathan Emile's moving, reggae-infused hook paves the way for reality bars over Myer Clarity's sample-laden, boom bap production.

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☀️ 🔊 PRESS PLAY: Cee gets a little Hazy this summer 🔊🌊

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☀️ 🔊 PRESS PLAY: Cee gets a little Hazy this summer 🔊🌊

Summer in Canada is a time for celebration, and Cee teamed up with German super-producer Shuko for a soulful trap banger to soundtrack the hot months.

Shuko has worked with some of the biggest names in the game, including Omarion, Tyga, Bow Wow, T-Pain, Talib Kweli, Keith Murray and Vinnie Paz, so teaming up again was an honour for Cee. They first connected on "Where I Belong" from Cee's Top 10 album "This Is All I Know", and "Hazy" brings some of that soulful flavour with a modern vibe.

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👑 🔊 PRESS PLAY: Cee lets 'em know it - double time 🔊👑

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👑 🔊 PRESS PLAY: Cee lets 'em know it - double time 🔊👑

The dichotomy of Cee rapping his bars to himself (double time = double Cee) expresses an inner desire to give himself a message of hope and persistence by painting a vivid picture of everything he has gone through to get to where he is. Cee as the stone statue slowly breaking the shackles of his confinement represent the MC and entrepreneur coming into his own as a man, cracking through the hard shell of obscurity into the limelight.

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🙌 🔊 PRESS PLAY: Notion's debut album is on the way with "Holdin' Hands" 🔊🙌

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🙌 🔊 PRESS PLAY: Notion's debut album is on the way with "Holdin' Hands" 🔊🙌

Initially released in late 2015 as a teaser, lead single, "Holdin' Hands" grabs you as soon as the snare hits with its heart-wrenching sample and Notion's personal, introspective lyrics where he tracks his musical journey and professes his gratitude for his fam and his supporters. Crafted by production team DiazSima based out of Budapest, Hungary, the slick video - expertly shot + chopped by King Richard and tirelessly directed + produced by Andrew Cameron - sees Notion deliver his passionate lyrics alongside his brother Cee with support from the 701 Squad b-boy crew.

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🙌 🔊 PRESS PLAY: If Marilyn Manson did trap music... 🔊🙌

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🙌 🔊 PRESS PLAY: If Marilyn Manson did trap music... 🔊🙌

Cee is kicking off 2017 with the first single from his new monthly series. "Meta" is nightmare trap; rolling hi-hats, eerie synths, vocal stabs and a drawling BPM that allows Cee to breathe as he casually delivers topical word association, with dark, creepy, Marilyn Manson-esque visuals to match courtesy of King Richard. Notion and newcomer Ben Tramer expertly laced the haunting soundscape; they'll be providing the sonic canvas for many of Cee's singles this year.

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PRESS PLAY: Give it up like it's Ramadan

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PRESS PLAY: Give it up like it's Ramadan

With no direct references to religion or Islam, 'Ramadan' is truly about respect, perseverance and submission to something greater than ones self. In a world full conflict, contradictions and moral challenges, moments of reflection and pause underline what we all can be grateful for.

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Cee - Rainy Days ft. D-Shade (Official Video)

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Cee - Rainy Days ft. D-Shade (Official Video)

The first visual - and first single - from Cee's debut album 'This Is All I Know' is a dedication to the sustenance from the sky - 'Rainy Days'. The feelings of despair when the clouds turn grey can be overwhelming, but the fresh start given via the heavenly earth wash is what truly drives and inspires us. Produced by Sydney, Australia native P.R (Bone, Thugs N Harmony, Evidence, Blu, Onyx - and Notion's single 'Young & Crazy'), the tune features Montreal pioneer D-Shade (Shades Of Culture), and the chemistry between the two MCs is evident as they effortlessly trade verses across the soulful soundscape like they've known each other for years.

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Notion - Young & Crazy (Official Video)

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Notion - Young & Crazy (Official Video)

The video was shot in Montreal on a stormy day in July last year, with the Old Port, Quartier des Spectacles, Benelux Brewpub and annual summer fireworks contest providing the backdrop for Notion's moody anthem. With an uplifting narrative that preaches the virtues of enjoying your youth while you still can, this soulful banger lit up every venue on the tour. Shouts to the Fam Cee, Tiffany Alexis and iLLvibe on the cameo tip.

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Cee x Abstract Artform x Ambition x DJ Grouch - Perfect Definition (Official Video)

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Cee x Abstract Artform x Ambition x DJ Grouch - Perfect Definition (Official Video)

Produced by Abs himself, 'Perfect Definition' is the culmination of a cross-Canadian Hip Hop movement - Abstract is from Winnipeg, Ambition hails from Halifax, DJ Grouch (who graciously laced the track with his signature cuts) reps Toronto, and Cee is posted up in Montreal. The choppy sample is complemented by tough deliveries, solid bars from all three MCs and Grouch's Primo-style hook puts the nail in the coffin. Hip Hop at its rawest, y'all.

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