BeatRoute Magazine BC Edition July 2019
BeatRoute Magazine is a music monthly and website that also covers: fashion, film, travel, liquor and cannabis all through the lens of a music fan. Distributed in British Columbia and Alberta, Ontario edition coming Thursday, September 5, 2019. BeatRoute’s Alberta edition is distributed in Calgary, Edmonton, Banff and Canmore. The BC edition is distributed in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo. BeatRoute (AB) Mission PO 23045 Calgary, AB T2S 3A8 E. editor@beatroute.ca BeatRoute (BC) #202 – 2405 E Hastings Vancouver, BC V5K 1Y8 P. 778-888-1120
BeatRoute Magazine is a music monthly and website that also covers: fashion, film, travel, liquor and cannabis all through the lens of a music fan. Distributed in British Columbia and Alberta, Ontario edition coming Thursday, September 5, 2019.
BeatRoute’s Alberta edition is distributed in Calgary, Edmonton, Banff and Canmore. The BC edition is distributed in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo. BeatRoute (AB) Mission PO 23045 Calgary, AB T2S 3A8 E. editor@beatroute.ca BeatRoute (BC) #202 – 2405 E Hastings Vancouver, BC V5K 1Y8 P. 778-888-1120
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MUSiC<br />
Artist to Watch<br />
A MIGHTY<br />
NEW FORCE<br />
IN HIP-HOP<br />
Brampton Ontario’s<br />
MC Haviah Mighty<br />
raps to empower<br />
By COURTNEY HEFFERNAN<br />
I’m hoping that<br />
I can continue to<br />
push hip-hop in the<br />
direction of being more<br />
accepting so more<br />
people will understand<br />
the music women<br />
are making and<br />
enjoy it.<br />
YUNG YEMI<br />
After a fiery performance<br />
at the NXNE festival stage<br />
in downtown Toronto, Haviah<br />
Mighty is still in constant<br />
motion, waving to fans and<br />
chatting with photographers,<br />
all while assisting<br />
her crew with equipment<br />
takedown.<br />
The rising hip-hop star<br />
has performed four times<br />
throughout the week,<br />
including at halftime at a<br />
Toronto Raptors outdoor<br />
viewing party in her Brampton<br />
hometown, and her energy<br />
hasn’t diminished. On top of<br />
that, Mighty’s most ambitious<br />
album to date, 13th Floor,<br />
was released a month ago to<br />
acclaim, earning her a spot on<br />
the recently announced <strong>2019</strong><br />
Polaris Music Prize Long List.<br />
Mighty is a commanding<br />
presence on stage. Her raps are<br />
CONTINUED ON PG. 14 k<br />
JULY <strong>2019</strong> BEATROUTE 13
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