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Breaking Kayfabe is a cohesive set of songs, backpacker in the best of senses, smart and witty and provocative, experimental and well-produced, but at the same time very raw and very real-sounding.
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His vivid, scattershot rhymes are clever without being cryptic, and his techno-tinged beats never veer off into tuneless arhythmia.
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Pemberton’s crafted a uniquely engaging sonic statement that stands on its own legs.
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Breaking Kayfabe is a record that demands and deserves undivided attention, its creator fashioning a brain-searing patchwork of ragged rap, electronic flourishes and truncated rhythms.
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Breaking Kaytabe is without a doubt one of the most impressive releases you'll hear all year, regardless of genre.
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Raised in a library of music and having already dissected his influences, Rollie takes confident first steps as Cadence Weapon.
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Too exciting for the underground (maybe), too weird for the overground (hopefully not), he deserves to be heard by both.
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UncutA dense and abrasive record of astonishing precocity, which, if it has a fault, is only that it occasionally offers brute intensity in excess of the impact Pemberton's razor-sharp verses. [Oct 2008, p.87]
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Q MagazineThis superior debut from Alberta rapper Roland Pemberton cuts adroitly from Oliver Square's booty shaking electro to the spare funk of Black Hand. [Oct 2007, p.101]
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