![]() In the meantime, he was doing what he could in the U.S., meeting with labels and networking. The artist, who grew up in Toronto’s Driftwood area, said he hoped to stay out of his hometown for “safety reasons,” but worried he would have to return due to difficulties renewing his artist visa. When he initially called me, he mentioned he was living in L.A. Something else we know: Houdini was incredibly ambitious. The real story here is that Canada has lost a wildly gifted, singular talent one with the potential to blow up big time-potential he was only just beginning to unlock. But while the Sun might paint Houdini as just another rapper-turned-statistic who had it coming thanks to hip-hop’s tendency to “applaud gang culture”-and quote fake Drake lyrics to illustrate their point -we know better. ![]() A trend that’s become tragically familiar-apparently so much so that it’s easy for some to trivialize these deaths, as the Toronto Sun did Wednesday in their tasteless headline about Jenkins' passing. His slaying is the latest in a profoundly sad trend of Toronto rappers losing their lives to senseless gun violence. Houdini, born Dimarjio Antonio Jenkins, was shot dead in Toronto’s Entertainment District on Tuesday afternoon. Unfortunately, he only got to cross off a couple of those goals. There were too many for me to write down. Once the rapper got the confirmation he needed, he listed off his year’s objectives like a litany. I wanted to feature him in Complex Canada’s annual 20 Artists to Watch Out For list he wanted to make sure I was a real person. The first time we spoke, he called me directly on my cell, minutes after I sent him an email asking what his plans were for 2020.
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