Obie

Obie’s self-titled EP is about possibility. The street savvy R&B singer writes about injustice, respect, love, beating the odds and building your own future. A native of Jamaica, now based in Toronto, the 23-year-old has a perspective that gives his hip-hop-tinged soul an edge, a realness, with light at the end of the tunnel. On the four original songs, he addresses the wrong turns of “Street Life,” violent tendencies in “War,” love for his late grandmother in “Broken Link” and equality in “Born To Be Free.