Clairmont The Second has shared Innermission: MAGMA or A Propagandous Film by Wes Side Anderson, a new EP that runs just under seventeen minutes. The Clairmont The Second Innermission EP is the latest chapter from one of the most self-contained toronto rappers of his generation, an artist who writes, produces and directs his own work.
Clairmont The Second Innermission Runs Seventeen Minutes
The EP was covered as a fresh release by Cups N Cakes Network on November 12, which heard downtempo, jazzy production with trap and experimental flourishes under Clairmont’s chilled-out cadence. Seventeen minutes is a deliberate frame. Nothing on the EP is given room to sprawl, and the short runtime suits a rapper whose records have always rewarded close, repeated listening over first-impression scale.
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A Toronto Rapper Who Builds Everything Himself
Clairmont The Second is Clairmont II Humphrey, a rapper, producer and director from Toronto’s west side, raised in the Jane and Weston area. He began his career in 2013 and released Quest for Milk and Honey on Black Box Music in 2016. His 2017 album Lil Mont from the Ave earned a Juno Award nomination for Rap Recording of the Year at the 2018 Juno Awards, and he won the Prism Prize Hi-Fidelity Award in 2019 for his self-directed video work. Do You Drive? followed in 2019.
I was born and raised in the west side of Toronto. I have been making music my whole life.
That quote, given to Clash, explains the EP’s sound better than any genre tag. Gospel, neo-soul and jazz were the household music of his childhood, and those influences still sit inside his rap records, softening the drums and stretching the harmonies. His older brother Colanthony Humphrey, of Toronto punk band The OBGMs, taught him to make beats, and the family thread still runs through everything he releases.
Why Innermission Matters for Canadian Hip Hop
Toronto’s rap story is often told through its biggest exports, but the city’s depth has always come from artists like Clairmont, who build a complete world at independent scale. Coverage of canadian hip hop that only follows the charts misses records like this one: short, strange, self-produced and entirely uninterested in sounding like anyone else. A Juno nomination and a Prism Prize already put Clairmont inside the national conversation. Innermission is a reminder that he never left it, he just kept working at his own pace.
The EP is streaming now. Listeners coming to Clairmont for the first time should start here, then work back through Lil Mont from the Ave and Do You Drive? to hear how the sound was built.
