Mathematik | uk

By Del F. Cowie It’s been about five years since Toronto-based MC Mathematik dropped his CD Ecology on the now defunct Beat Factory label. Since then that record has become an elusively rare but essential Canadian b-boy document and until now, Mathematik has maintained a rather low profile, evidently holed up in the lab. On first impression it’s like Mathematik hasn’t been away. His rhymes explore much of the spiritually inclined milieu of his past material with his inimitably insistent delivery riding high atop sparse production. “If It Isn’t” is a perfect example, showcasing Math explaining his devotion to MCing...