Northern Touch: The Best Canadian Songs Of The Month (February)

At the end of every month, we round up the songs and music videos by Canadian artists that were in heavy rotation. Here's your chance to catch up on some gems you might have missed in February.

We're only a couple of months into 2017 but it's already shaping up to be a big year for Smoke Dawg. The Halal Gang rapper just had his first overseas show with Nafe Smallz at XOYO in London, England and brought out Skepta, Giggs, Section Boyz and none other than Drake as special guests. It sent social media into a fury and definitely got more than a few new eyes and ears on the Toronto native. Smokey capitalized on the good publicity by dropping the new track, "Count It Up," on OVO Sound Radio, and simultaneously released the above video for the song that includes footage from that legendary XOYO show. Oh and did we also forget to mention he's also currently open up for the remainder of the Boy Meets World tour in Europe? Yeah, definitely stay tuned for more from Smoke Dawg in 2017.

Pressa has been on a steady glo up since releasing "Deadmihana" in January of last year, and especially so in the last few months after his appearance on "Novocane" from Murda Beatz's Keep God First mixtape. Earlier this month, the 19 year old (real name Quinton Gardiner) dropped a track with another Toronto heavyweight, Tory Lanez, entitled "Oh My." The video features the two cooling out in a downtown condo with a brigade of beautiful women at their side, while Pressa's lyrics discuss his growing, and maybe somewhat unlikely—"Ordinary black boy, why she find me so amazing?"—fame. Pressa is also joining Smoke Dawg on the last leg of Drake's Boy Meets World Tour, so it's safe to say he better get used to the attention.