1989 · Scarborough
Let Your Backbone Slide
“Nothin' but a party, my brudda, and I'm the host”
The annotation
The first Canadian hip-hop record to go platinum, out of Scarborough in 1989. 'Brudda' — Caribbean 'brother' — was already the default address term in the city's east end decades before it showed up in drill. Toronto slang didn't start in 2015; it just got a bigger microphone.
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