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The Toronto edition of Hip-Hop Karaoke celebrates its second birthday at Revival tonight, and its organizers are experiencing anything but the terrible twos. For one thing, most two-year-olds don't have Maestro Fresh Wes perform at their birthday parties.

Wes Williams is synonymous with Canadian hip hop. Bursting on the scene as Maestro Fresh Wes, Williams brashly declared, "'89 is mine." And it was. His debut single "Let Your Backbone Slide" was a crossover success and is the only Canadian rap single to go gold. His debut album Symphony in Effect remains the best selling Canadian hip hop album of all time despite being a year shy of its twentieth anniversary. Williams is often cited as the Godfather of Canadian hip hop and as he once rhymed, "I'm not a rapper, I'm an icon. Don't get it confused."