They are two of the safest guys you are likely to encounter rolling up to the stage in Vancouver's hottest underground urban clubs. Their beats will make you "sweat like a sauna..." - quite literally. No, they're aren't the finished product, but the OPC (On Point Collective) are two guys hustling 24/7 the hip hop game in my favourite city (aside from London town), and I'm in full support from this side of the Atlantic. Below is the piece I wrote for MVREMIX - who published my interview with one half of the Collective, Alite; whilst his sidekick, rapper Dagamuffin, was off somewhere knocking up more beats:
The OPC: Hustling Vancouver's Hip Hop Game
You can't start the interview without seeing my son's puzzle," says his wife Rosie.
Alite waits a few more seconds to begin as his five-year-old boy Taiyaz holds up his finished puzzle. The up-and-coming Vancouver born and bred emcee sits beside his biggest fans, and as Rosie, also known as Too Sweet, rolls the camera, we are ready for his first—but certainly not last—interview.
Arif Ali, who goes by the stage name Alite, is one-half of the On Point Collective (OPC) alongside Jean Marc Daga, AKA Dagamuffin. The duo has been in the hip-hop game for more than 10 years, but is just now working on its debut, Brownalistics -The Brown Man's Burden. It is Alite's hope that it will display what a real deal the OPC is.
"This is not a hobby. This is a career," explains Alite. "We want to show we write complex lyrics that you can get wild to. Meaningful shit, good beats and ill lyrics..."
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