This month, Hip Hop OG’s XXL took to their annual task of highlighting the best up-and-coming rappers in the game with ”XXL’s 2014 Freshman Class”. Here at Cool Accidents we decided what better to do with a Freshman Class than give the students grades? Some ace the test and some need to head back to Degrassi Junior High and take a seat next to Drake…

So without further ado, here is the roll call and report card for 2014’s Freshman Class in alphabetical order:
 

Regular Cool Accidents contributor Mark Wilson aka Mayor Goldie Wilson aka the bass guy from Jet recently programmed a pretty great playlist for the folks over at ABC and their Dig Music digital radio platform.

Just like his normal contributions around these parts the emphasis is on bass heavy business.

I don’t mean to alarm anyone but have you actually looked at the date recently? Shiiiiiit… Can you believe that 2013 is almost done and dusted?!

I recently had a mild freakout based on that fact and thought I’d better start preparing for the inevitable requests for my ‘end of year/best of’ lists so I fired up the ol’ iTunes to find out the tracks I’ve spun the most over the past 10 months…

It’s that time of the month where we get to flex our pretty amazing and crazy diverse taste in music by selecting a whole host of choice cuts, from the freshest new tunes to some old classics we’ve revisited over the current month.

Last month we kicked off our monthly series ‘Choice Cuts’ wherein our good friends music types here at Cool Accidents each choose two of their favourite jams from the past month and we slab it all into a gloriously curated youtube playlist for your listening pleasure on this wet Thursday morning.