Allan Rayman
What: Hip-Hop
Where: Toronto, ON
Visit: www.allanrayman.com
Allan Rayman is tough to categorize. The Toronto-based hip-hop artist strays far outside the outer limits normally surrounding the genre. That said, if a simple description had to be made (and in this case, it does), one could say that his sound is like an urban version of indie/roots band Dispatch.
With a quick, jumpy vocal delivery style that focuses as much on storytelling as it does on rhyme structure, Rayman’s music is more reggae and roots-tinged. He’d be just as fitting as an opener for The Roots as he would be playing for thousands of hippies on the summer festival circuit. Rayman released his debut album, H.O.H.W. (Hell or High Water), earlier this year and performed all of the instrumentals on the record himself, demonstrating more of his seemingly many talents.
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