< >M.O & Geothermal MC
M.O. started to create beats and write more verses. Back in B.C., Geothermal MC (GMC), a rapper hailing from North Vancouver and a life-long friend of M.O., had been quietly working on his craft. GMC was a special guest on the resulting ‘Eskimocentricity’, M.O.’s 2009 self-produced foray into hip hop, and the two have teamed up for ‘String Games’, released on June 10, 2011. Eskimocentricity hit the !earshot hip hop charts: #1 Dec 22 (week) and #8 January 2010 (month); and the weekly CHARTattack charts: #10-Dec 22 and #9-Jan 12 2010.
Ancestry: Inuk
Genre: Rap
Albums
Biography
M.O. brings a pure distillation of hip-hop and the polar ice cap. He “hopes to update southerner’s perceptions of Inuit life.” (Kate Porter, CBC Radio One)
M.O. was born in Iqaluit, Nunavut (Frobisher Bay, NWT at the time) during the coldest November in the town’s recorded history. A product of an Inuk mother and a Brooklynite father, he and two sisters were raised by their father in Iqaluit and in Vancouver, BC.
After two years of studying creative writing in Nanaimo, M.O. set out to find the best vehicle for his words. He was a playwright participant at Weesageechak Begins to Dance XVII; produced advertising copy; wrote articles for newspaper and magazine; completed two film scripts on spec; performed spoken word poetry from The Railway Club in Vancouver to Westfest in Ottawa. It wasn’t until November 7, 2007, that he found his writing home.
During mic check at a spoken word performance for Her Excellency Michaelle Jean’s Urban Arts Forum in Ottawa, the DJ asked M.O. if he needed a beat. On a whim M.O. decided to perform two hip hop verses he had been writing, and the response from the crowd and Her Excellency was electric.
M.O. started to create beats and write more verses. Back in B.C., Geothermal MC (GMC), a rapper hailing from North Vancouver and a life-long friend of M.O., had been quietly working on his craft. GMC was a special guest on the resulting ‘Eskimocentricity’, M.O.’s 2009 self-produced foray into hip hop, and the two have teamed up for ‘String Games’, released on June 10, 2011. Eskimocentricity hit the !earshot hip hop charts: #1 Dec 22 (week) and #8 January 2010 (month); and the weekly CHARTattack charts: #10-Dec 22 and #9-Jan 12 2010.
