Artist Thumbnail
Cadence Weapon
Through his urgent rap anthems, Cadence Weapon captures the dizzying contradictions of modern culture and technology with both precision and irreverence. The Hamilton-based rapper, producer, former poet laureate, and author of Bedroom Rapper (2022) also known as Rollie Pemberton got his musical start while careening through the rap internet as a teenager in Edmonton, Canada. He emerged as an artist who gave voice to issues of systemic inequality and racial disparity, particularly among Canada’s Black communities, with his fifth album Parallel World, which won the 2021 Polaris Prize. Now, with his sixth studio album, ROLLERCOASTER, Pemberton expands his incisive commentary to the sprawling internet—a former utopian playground that’s turned into a capitalist junkyard—to remind users they don’t have to just “go along for the ride,” he says. The hyperpop and electro-inspired production of ROLLERCOASTER is intended to replicate the internet’s “sensory overload” and exhibits his growing skills in merging socio-political commentary and insurgent rap with humor and pop sensibility. Despite its bleak portrait of today’s digital attention economy, ROLLERCOASTER still fits into a long lineage of Black electronic artists using music to forge Black futures.

Songs

See All
1
thumbnail
Connor McDavid
Cadence Weapon
2
thumbnail
Connor McDavid (2024 Stanley Cup Version)
Cadence Weapon
3
thumbnail
Sharks E
Cadence Weapon
4
thumbnail
My Crew (Woooo) E
Cadence Weapon
5
thumbnail
Ungirthed
Cadence Weapon

Albums

thumbnail

ROLLERCOASTER

2024
thumbnail

Afterparty Babies

2008
thumbnail

Parallel World

2021
thumbnail

Breaking Kayfabe

2005
thumbnail

Cadence Weapon

2018
thumbnail

Hope In Dirt City

2012

Singles & EPs

See All
thumbnail

Ungirthed

Single • 2025
thumbnail

Connor McDavid (2024 Stanley Cup Version)

Single • 2024
thumbnail

Eye To Eye

Single • 2021
thumbnail

Nice Try

Single • 2024
thumbnail

My Computer

Single • 2024
thumbnail

SENNA

Single • 2021
thumbnail

Wormhole

Single • 2024
thumbnail

Exceptional (feat. Jacques Greene)

Single • 2024
thumbnail

Golden

Single • 2024
thumbnail

Press Eject (feat. Grandtheft)

Single • 2024

Videos

See All
thumbnail

Dampé & Cadence Weapon - Hard To Say (Official Music Video)

Cadence Weapon • 411 views
thumbnail

Cadence Weapon - Connor McDavid (2024 Stanley Cup Version) [Official Music Video]

Cadence Weapon • 12K views

Artist-made playlists

thumbnail

🧀 Charcuterie Music 🍖

Playlist • Cadence Weapon • 803 views