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Ko Kapches was raised in a middle-class Greek family in the Queen and Broadview area in Toronto, Ontario. After falling into the trap of using and selling a wide variety of drugs as a 14-year-old, he soon found himself on an odyssey of rehabilitation centres across the United States. “I lived on the streets of San Francisco for a little bit until I eventually got in touch with my parents after a few weeks,” Ko explains. “My father flew out and took me home, but I started living on the streets of Toronto anyways.”
Ko spent much of his time with friends in small studios, crafting his talents as a rapper while beginning to write songs and playing guitar. Ko began to develop his own unique style he refers to as both urban funk and urban folk.
“I like to think of myself as a folk musician. But I’m not singing about country folk things, I’m singing about city folk things. I didn’t come from an impoverished background, but I still see things on the street every day.”
While Ko is still influenced by Toronto’s underground rap community, he also enjoys more mainstream rap and ranks such diverse artists as Everlast, Kid Rock, Ani DiFranco, Thelonious Monk and Van Morrison among his favourites. He even has a tattoo of a lyr...
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Capable
Let's Blaze
Miss U
Drunk
Moving Mountains
Kurt Kobain
Over Paradise [Drake vs. Coldplay]
Bourbon (Crack Song)
Good Man, Bad Man
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Top 10 KO Albums
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Beginning of the New Road
175 Cherry Lane
Ooh Yeah
This Is Who I Am
It's Serious
Flyin (Sax Version)
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