by Steve Newton on February 13th, 2021 at 2:34 PM 1 of 4 2 of 4
Missy D remembers well the day her love affair with hip-hop started.
She was an 11-year-old schoolkid in Zimbabwe, and her class was preparing for the year-end talent show. But they were learning to play the recorder, which isn t the most thrilling instrument in the world. We pretty much sucked, recalls the 29-year-old rapper on the line from her East Van home, and we were all complaining to our music teacher, Hey, you should be teaching us music that s relevant to us. Hip-hop was a big thing at the time, and he somehow changed the curriculum for the next three months in preparation for that big talent show and was like, Okay, you guys wanna study hip-hop, so we re gonna study the history of hip-hop, from deejays to dancing to instrumentals to rapping.