DORIAN GEIGER
Arts Writer

Cadence Weapon is the moniker of Edmonton-based rapper Rollie Pemberton who, for the last five years, has captured the imagination of Canada’s rap and indie music scenes. He has released two studio albums as well as two mixtapes, the last of which was called Separation Anxiety, written about his ex-girlfriend and distributed online and available for any price fans wanted to pay.

More recently, Pemberton was named Edmonton’s poet laureate for a two-year term starting in July of 2009.

The Sheaf caught up with Cadence Weapon at the Alberta House in Vancouver during the winter Olympics, where he talked about how he went from journalism to rap, his desire to parody rappers like Lil Wayne and the “existential new wave” rap he is working on currently.

Cadence Weapon Interview from Robby Davis on Vimeo.

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photo/video by Robby Davis