10 Facts About Cadence Weapon

Roland "Rollie" Pemberton, better known by his stage name Cadence Weapon, is a Canadian-American rapper based in Toronto, Ontario.

Cadence Weapon subsequently signed with the American record label ANTI-, releasing the albums Afterparty Babies in 2008 and Hope in Dirt City in 2012.

Cadence Weapon began rapping at age 13, and following high school he briefly attended journalism school, dropping out soon afterward to concentrate on music.

Cadence Weapon released the mixtape Cadence Weapon Is the Black Hand in 2005, and his full-length debut Breaking Kayfabe at the end of the year.

Cadence Weapon was nominated for the 2006 Polaris Music Prize, which awards $20,000 for the Canadian album of the year.

Cadence Weapon has been a guest performer on music by other artists, including Super Extra Bonus Party's "Radar" and Shout Out Out Out Out's "Coming Home".

On May 26,2009, Cadence Weapon was sworn in as Edmonton's Poet Laureate for a two-year term beginning July 1,2009, and as such served as an ambassador of the literary arts, as well as creating original works.

Cadence Weapon released the album Hope in Dirt City on May 29,2012.

In 2015, Cadence Weapon began a residency on Toronto Independent Radio Station TRP called Allsorts.

Cadence Weapon described the concept as being told with a "journalistic lens" that was largely inspired by watching the George Floyd protests in 2020.