Citizen Kane (band)
Citizen Kane was a Canadian hip hop duo from Toronto, active from 1995 to 2005. The group consisted of Jeff "J-Spade" Duke and Rob "Blye" Paris, was managed by Adrian Perry, and released music on Treehouse Records. They grew up in Scarborough, Toronto, with Duke as a first-generation Canadian and Blye as a Black Nova Scotian.
They released their debut single, "Soul Survivor," in 1995, followed by several singles and the EP The Epic in 1997. The duo put out the album Deliverance in 1999. They were nominated twice for the Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year: for The Epic at the 1999 Junos and for Deliverance at the 2000 Junos.
To promote Deliverance, their efforts were filmed for the National Film Board of Canada documentary Raisin' Kane: A Rapumentary, directed by Alison Duke and released in 2001.
They issued a few more singles but broke up before making another album. In 2012, TopLeft Recordings released Scartown Unreleased Classics, a mixtape of tracks recorded from 2001 to 2005 for a planned second album. Several singles, including "Soul Survivor," "Black Rain," and "Raisin' Kane," were reissued in 2018.
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