The Straw That Keeps the Drink Stirred: Cadence Weapon Shares “Raghouse” feat. Ariel
Cadence Weapon shares smooth rhyming “Raghouse” from forthcoming album Forager, an R&B-leaning song that digs deep into the album’s thrifting and vintage fashion themes. With its plush electric piano, complex metallic drums and soft sax, “Raghouse” moves through verses like a vintage collector digging through textiles. Featuring powerhouse vocalist Ariel and complete with a 90s Calvin Klein ad-inspired video by director Fatty Soprano, “Raghouse” is the third taste of Forager, due April 24, 2026.
With “Raghouse,” Cadence Weapon takes us into the underbelly of the used textile economy, a warehouse where the sheer volume of clothing moved by conveyor belts is both full of promise for the would-be thrifter and completely overwhelming to imagine on a global scale. “One big part of thrifting is the ecological side of it,” says Cadence Weapon. “There is so much clothing out there in the world that was made in the past. True vintage is made from natural materials and was made with a higher standard. This made me think of the classic hip-hop that I grew up listening to.”
Forager finds Cadence Weapon as archivist and lyricist, curator and collector. The new songs are the work of keen eyes and ears, a restless curiosity for depth of knowledge and appreciation for detail. With each single, from the strut of “Step Out” to the lyrical rap of “Alpenflage,” Cadence Weapon sports a wide range of sounds, looks, and lyrics, all befitting this organic, fresh alt-hip-hop collection.
Written alongside his second book, forthcoming “Ways of Listening,” due out May 26, 2026, the songs are the natural extension of a curious mind set to the task of expressing the essence of our relationship to music, and how that is changing.
Pre-Save/Pre-Order Forager here.
Forager Markets
4/25 Hamilton, ON - Cotton Factory with HVC Markets
4/26 Toronto, ON - Standard Time
5/2 Montreal, QC - Essai Futile
5/9 Edmonton, AB - Orange Hall
ABOUT CADENCE WEAPON
A Renaissance man for the Digital Age, Cadence Weapon aka Rollie Pemberton is rapper/producer/author with a list of accomplishments and credits so long - from receiving industry accolades for his music to receiving awards for critiquing this same industry in his writing - you might wonder what more is there for him to do. Even so, Fall 2025 finds the Polaris Music Prize winner with a new frame of mind and yet more on the go. From the bouncy new single “Step Out,” which sees Cadence Weapon in the company of Toronto hiphop lions Junia-T and DijahSB, to prepping his third book, an essay collection titled Ways of Listening, and running back his debut album, Breaking Kayfabe, with a twentieth anniversary tour, Cadence Weapon continues his impressive roll.
At once encyclopedically historical and presciently future-minded, Cadence Weapon is known first and foremost for his lyricism: charged commentary and cautionary tales of artificiality, tech-culture, classicism, gentrification, exploitation and more fit beside the self-aware chronicles of his own life and career, encapsulated in his most recent album, Rollercoaster. Cadence Weapon has made good on the critical acclaim of his early work and still remains at the avant-garde, pushing boundaries and buttons while his signature electronic/industrial sound, a “grimy clarion call,” (Pitchfork) rings on.
An award-winning columnist and contributor to urgent cultural conversations (CBC Commotion, Hazlitt, Mood Machine, docuseries Paid in Full and more), ‘music industry sage’ Cadence Weapon represents the best of the west as Edmonton’s former Poet Laureate. Now based in Hamilton, Pemberton is poised to surprise his listeners yet again in 2026 with the release of his next album, complete with live instrumentation and a thematic pivot.
