Buck 65 - Situation

No longer the “hick from Mount Uniacke” in Nova Scotia, Buck 65 is now Canada’s avant-garde maestro. The rapper-MC-turntablist shifted away from his down-home rap with 2005’s Secret House Against the World, which incorporated jazz, trip-hop and French into his abstract mix. Here, drawing on the cultural ephemera of the Frisbee, the Beat Generation, China’s Great Leap Forward, Elvis Presley and Situationist International, he delivers an inspired hip-hop concept album dedicated to the year 1957.

Oct. 30