SLEEP NO MORE from the album IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT

  Sax blasting, direct acting, flute tooting, pedal pumping MC MOTHER TAREKA is an adopted Hamilton son. 1 part activist, 1 part musician, all parts amazing. Hailing from Syria with Palestinian roots, Tarek is musically best known as the frontman for the Hamilton HipHop fusion outfit Mother Tareka & The Rebel Funktion (formerly the Greezy Steez). This music is made for anti-racism, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, anti-sexism, anarchist, and environmentalist movements! For years Tarek has been blessing mics all across so-called Kanada from Victoria to Halifax, Prince George to Montreal, on stages he warmed up for some of HipHop's legends like CL Smooth, Raekwon, Bahamadia, Yasiin Bey (fma Mos Def), Georgia Anne Muldrow, Killah Priest, Saukrates, Freedom Writers, D-Sisive, Shad, My Son The Hurricane, The Soul Motivators, BadBadNotGood, Ikebe Shakedown, and more! Performing for the last 7 years, Mother Tareka has developed a strong fan-base made up of bad ass front-line organizers and activists, as well as serious Hip-Hop aficionados all over Southern Onterrible. 

This latest project Imagine Something Different consists of ten vivid tracks that play out like 'behind the scenes' reflections on society and where it is headed. The writing is dark and heavy, while the flow is musical and funky. This multi-instrumentalist shows genuine respect for poetry. Enlisting beats by comrades HUTCHI, L-SPEX, MonkeyWrench, Brett Klassen and Moment, guest verses by Lee Reed, Emay, and MonkeyWrench, and cuts by DJ Goadman, the album is a diverse sounding headphone journey that reps minimalst BoomBap and layered post Dilla beat-making. Mother Tareka's lyrics imagine unexplored future possibilities and confront present injustices.  The LP was warmly received by Campus & Community radio.. where it spent 5 weeks on the Earshot! National HipHop Top 10 Charts.