Rapper Shan Vincent de Paul is fighting to claim space in Toronto’s music scene The Tamil-Canadian artist talks finding space in the international music scene and the controversy over his appearance on Rolling Stone India Source:nowtoronto.com Last summer, Toronto singer Witch Prophet and her producer Sun Sun pulled up to rapper Shan Vincent de Paul’s downtown studio out of the blue. They were there to hand him an award, just for being dope. “It meant a lot,” says Vincent de Paul, on a Zoom call from that same studio, describing the one-off gesture that Witch Prophet and Sun Sun bestowed on a handful of local artists. Vincent de Paul’s never been shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize or nominated for a Juno, never mind the bangers he’s been putting out over the years from 2016’s operatic Die Iconic to his firestorm verses about the Tamil genocide on 2020’s One Hundred ...

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