Artist description Enigmatic hip-hop prima donnas.

Music Style A rhythmic chanting often in unison of usually rhymed couplets to a musical accompaniment.

Musical Influences The Fabricland Theme Song, POTASSIUM by Nick Spence, Common Room Post # 693...

Similar Artists The Vanbots, Roseann's Cookies, Glorious Mess, The Kabuki Schooner, White Boy Strikes Back, The Breeze Way, The NEW Beatles...

Artist History Hardship. Triumph. Failure. Redemption. These are the hardscrabble seasons of life. This is the sweet n sour cycle we all taste. As it was in the beginning, now and ever shall be. This is the almost Biblical path that Off White have followed since they were born in the late stages of 1998. Picture this: gritty downtown Toronto, a bleak urban turtle pool of wasted talent. Theres only one way: outhustling The Word. Night after night, a grim cycle of endless OE and philosophy spills in and out of the mouths of two downtrodden locals, Mayor Maher and Ryan Coke. First meeting among the stained couches and peeling paint of local speakeasy The Common Room, the pair watched each others backs and checked each others mics through long nights and painful mornings, preaching The Truth over whatever beatbox hymn was on offer. And when local club promoter P-Hay caught their Teachings, he knew he had to bring them to a wider audience. Dubbing them Off White because of their gaunt, underfed appearance, they took the stage at the notorious Cats Eye and converted the unwashed masses who immediately clamored for more like a man rescued from a desert and brought to the Perrier Springs. The next few months ushered in an era of success the likes of which the duo had never seen. Parties! Bills! Honeys! Shoes! The two became major players on the local scene and their fire and brimstone sermonizing grew only more heated. But as we all know, fire is The Cleanser. Cracks began to appear in their once majestic façade. Crack began to appear in Ryan Cokes room. P-Hay cracked up. That n----s crazy, cracked Mayor Maher, and it was all over. After all the tough times, it seemed that the good times had--ironically--torn the once-inseparable Off White in two. Ryan Coke began work on a solo project, with many of his favorite local poets, but eventually he dropped off the album and the poets took over. Mayor Maher went into pigeon fancying and refused to be interviewed about his old life. Off White were no more; the hits never materialized, their legacy nothing but a dubbed tape of one of their shows and sixteen unopened boxes of Off Shite T-shirts Ryan had ordered by mistake. A Funny Thing happened, though. That dubbed tape found its way into the hands of Dagmar Utelen, a pirate DJ in Munich. Throwing it on a party after beer was spilled on his Doppelunsch Boyz CD, he was immediately blown away by the free-flowing lyrical stylings. Despite an almost complete lack of English fluency, Dagmar knew that he had heard The Word and immediately began dropping this Nourishment all over his radio show, and the phone lines lit up. A conference call was arranged, and while the Mayor and Ryan were wary of each other at first, it soon became apparent that they needed each other...to understand Dagmars English. The joy of collaboration came flooding back like The Flood and Off White were reborn, phoenix-like, from the ashes. And now here they come, sounding off like Gabriels horn, blowing hard and penitent rhymes, preaching through that cycle of life that spins like a record on a DJs turntable, tuning into our bpm and rocking our collective ass so that we might better understand our own shit. Amen.

Group Members Ryan Coke & Mayor Maher

Location Toronto, Ontario - Canada

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