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Official Ghettosocks EPK 2011

Check out Socks’ new Video EPK. It’s dope!

Don’t Turn Around Wins 2011 ECMA Rap Single of the Year

Ghettosocks took home the Rap/Hip Hop Single of the Year Award for his song “Don’t Turn Around featuring Edgar Allen Floe, this weekend at the 2011 East Coast Music Awards in Charlottetown, PEI. Socks was “very excited and thankful” to receive this award and gave special thanks to E.A. Floe and Bix, long time producing [...]

TREAT OF THE DAY GETS JUNO NOM

Ghettosocks, earns his first JUNO Award nomination with his latest album, Treat of the Day. Getting the nod for Rap Recording of the Year, Socks’ Treat is matched up with Eternia & MoSS, Shad, D-Sisive, and Drake who is also nominated in the category.

If Blue Velvet And Twin Peaks Had A Baby

Taken from the upcoming Twin Peaks album Kissing Hands & Shaking Babies, the new video for Just Say No is an homage to Blue Velvet, from the master David Lynch, starring the late Dennis Hopper.

Muneshine and Ghettosocks Are Perfectly Strange Together

Muneshine and Ghettosocks are indeed perfect strangers. Now you can get to know them as Twin Peaks with their debut 7-track primer, The Perfect Strangers EP. Listen, Download, Order an audio CD here.

GET SOME FRIENDS ON VINYL

Ok, so it took a while to get this up, but the Get Some Friends 12-inch has finally been added to the store! We’ve had more then a few requests for this and we’re sorry it took so long to get it added to the store, but there it is.

Enjoy!

Out For Treats Official Video

Ok boys and girls, it’s time to put your hoodie on and go out for treats!

The Treat-o-tron

We’ve been getting a lot of people asking us if the artwork for the packaging of “Treat of the Day” was real or photo-shopped. Here are some of the behind-the-scenes snapshots of the construction of the Treat-o-tron burger. It took around five hours time and $150 to build- making it not necessarily the most expensive [...]

iTunes Indie Spotlight Shines On Ghettosocks

Another cherry on top of the Ghettosocks sundae, Treat of the Day is this month’s iTunes indie spotlight featured hip-hop album. Mmmm, now there’s a mouthful. Click here to go directly to the iTunes indie spotlight page.

Treat of the Day Hits the Streets of Japan

Ghettosocks’ Treat of the Day album will be let loose on the poor, unsuspecting people of Japan on March 5th, 2010, courtesy of our good friends at Granma Music Entertainment.

PARTY WITH KOOL KRYS & GHETTOSOCKS

YO- This Saturday night (February 20th), take a break from watching people risk life and limb at the Olympics and come join Kool Krys, Ghettosocks, Bigg Bix, Dee Jay Frame, and a few other special guests at Babylon to celebrate her sophomore album release.

Jay-Z Has His Own Vodka…

This post is more of a public service announcement rather than a blog entry. Just letting you hungry people know that yes, there is a sandwich named after me, and yes, it is delicious. From the mind that brought you “Read-a-Book”, “Step to a T-Rex”, and the “I Can Make Your Dog Famous Mixtape” comes [...]

OH CANADA.

I know that this entry is coming a little late since the video is already getting heavy rotation on Much, but I thought, “hey- why not throw up a quick blurb about it?” I went down to Granville Street in Downtown Halifax on a frigid, nose-reddening afternoon to check the making of Classified’s video for [...]

Ghettosocks Interviewed on AUX.tv’s, CYPHER

Back in ’09 while Ghettosocks was performing at the Opera House in Toronto, he had the privilege of being interviewed by I.E. for AUX.tv’s, Cypher.

Out For Treats Tour Shirts Available

Missed your chance to get a Socks original design Out for Treats Tour shirt? Well this may be your chance to rectify that situation. We have a limited supply of tees, in limited sizes and colors, now available in the merch store.