World Domination Hip Hop

We love music and this podcast was all about underground rap battle. Travis Fleetwood, Known as Organik, is the founder and part owner of King of the Dot,  a battle rap league based in Toronto, Ontario, where he currently resides. Organik started King of the Dot in 2008. As the founder, CEO, and host of King of the Dot, he has been credited with developing battle rap talent, specializing in booking local talent as well as from other battle leagues.

Organik has won several battle rap competitions, including BET's 2006 and 2008 “Canadian Spring Bling” and “Battle Of The Headz”. He is a three-time champion of Change Promotion’s Battle King Events and also won Toronto’s “Proud2BEhBattleMC” event three times. In 2011, Organik was a judge on the Ultimate MC TV show alongside Royce da 5'9", Sean Price, Planet Asia, and Pharaoh Monch.

World Domination Hip Hop

Grant Van Gameren, only 35 years old, has become synonymous with Toronto culinary trends. Charcuterie was the theme of his first big restaurant, the Black Hoof on Dundas West near ­Trinity Bellwoods, where he enjoyed instant, massive, four-hour-wait-times-for-a-table success. If you’ve eaten blood sausage in this city, it’s been either his or an imitator’s. When celebrity chefs visit Toronto, they are now inevitably taken to his second restaurant, Bar Isabel, on College near Ossington—the innermost node of the city’s Young Cool Food Scene.

His inspiration for Bar Raval is the pinchos bars of Spain, neighbourhood joints with local followings that often do just one finger food very well—mushrooms on a stick, say, or ­mussels served three ways. He told me Bar Raval will be a “mature snack bar” where you will be able to eat dinner, a beachhead of aperitivo culture, a coffee bar without Wi-Fi so it won’t be full of glassy-eyed freelancers staring into a desperate middle distance, a brunch spot that won’t serve eggs Benny but maybe seafood or a bit of ham. Webster and Goodfellow, who are in charge of Raval’s bar, have been collecting rare vermouths and amari for low-alcohol cocktails intended to be sipped over the course of an afternoon. Van Gameren’s pinchos will focus on the sardines and cockles and scallops from the Galician coast of Spain in particular. Bar Raval, at least at first, will be the Spanish seafood place, like the Black Hoof was the ­charcuterie place.

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