Connor Price

One Liner:  Canadian rapper with collaborations from all over the globe

Wikipedia Genre:  hop hop, rap, maybe some terrible MGK-style generic rock

Home: Toronto

Poster Position: 11
Weekend One Only.
Friday at 5:30.

IHG Stage.

Thoughts:  Unexpected.  Such a generic name, felt like anything was possible, and that feeling delivered.  An up and down experience with this music that is definitely aimed at a younger generation than me, but it feels like as soon as I have a feeling for that this music is about, it changes up.  Like, "Let Go" is giving me AJR vibes.  "Too Bad" sounds more Machine Gun Kelly with generic guitar licks and boring lines.  "Still Blue" sounds like maybe Jack Johnson with a country vibe?  Several of these songs have Jack Harlow's sound.  I'd guess that he is classified as a rapper, but he also spends a lot of time doing mediocre indie rock songs too.

He started out as a child actor - his first notable role was as the eldest son of Russell Crowe and Renée Zellweger in the Academy Award Nominated movie Cinderella Man, but after that he had roles in other strange things like Syfy's Being Human, CBC's X Company, and ABC's The Rookie.  In the late 2010's, he started working his way into a rap career as well, starting off with a series where he would spin an actual globe and then collaborate with an artist from whatever country his finger landed on.  Here is a long intro of the guy:

Sounds like COVID killed the acting thing for a while so he slipped into the music and TikTok skits.  Honestly, he comes off as really nice and friendly in that video.  Damn Canadians.  His top song comes from that Spin the Globe! collaboration, with a guy named Bens, who is from the Netherlands!  "Spinnin" has 162 million streams and a sweet ass pan flute thing.

As I read through his songs, it will be interesting to see what his live show even looks like.  If almost all of his songs have a collaboration element where someone else takes on part of the song, then how does he do that?  Is he going to fly in 20 other artists to come and do their little chunks of the tracks?  Or will he just play his own little chunks?  Like, I saw Future one time early in his career and it sucked because he just played his own little chunks of a lot of songs, but then would stop the song and move to the next, so we never really got to hear one of the full things.  Annoying.  His second most streamed tune is with a guy named Killa from Zambia, and although I like the beat and vibe it is also on that first album.  I want to give you a newer one.

2024's Spin the Globe 2 is another package of collaborations, including the one with Haviah Mighty, a Canadian rapper (which seems weak, you're already a Canadian rapper!).  "Trendsetter" has 28.4 million streams.

You know what, I want to compare him to Jack Harlow, but I actually think he is better than Harlow.  That rap is pretty dang good, with different cadences, smart lyrics, and Mighty is good stuff too.  That track is legit.

Here is the most recent song in his catalog, a single from March 15, 2024 called "Too Bad."  This is the one I said early has the MGK vibes.  3.9 million streams.

Nope.  That sucks.  Justin Beiber with Blink 182!  Harry Styles with Sum 41!  Jeremy Renner over the band who plays Olivia Rodrigo's rocking songs!  This ain't it.

If he sticks to the straight hip hop action, then I think this could be a pretty fun show.  If he tries to mess around with the lame-o emo rock rap mess like that last Machine Gun Kelly tribute, then it will be a long time.  Remember that truly terrible guy a year or two ago, uhhhhhhh, Kenny something... hold please...KennyHoopla!  I thought he showed promise and instead his show was deeply awful!  That is what this guy could be if he is morphing away from the hip hop that made him interesting in the first place.