If you’ve been sleeping on the old-school, conscious hip hop of General Khan, consider her new EP your wake-up alarm.
When Masuma Khan—noted Halifax activist and rapper—lists the likes of Busta Rhymes, Lauryn Hill and Notorious BIG as key influences on her art, it’s hardly surprising (not just because her picks are inarguably classics of the genre). See, like her heroes, Khan—who makes music as rapper General Khan—spits while knowing that the mic in her hand can be a weapon, a tool: A sharp verse lacerating or a boom-bap baton of hypnosis…
