Back before Fuse was a household name and emo mainstay, there was its precursor, MuchMusic USA, a Canadian super-music channel that seemingly, for awhile there, played nothing but the video for Thursday’s “Understanding In a Car Crash” (which, embarrassingly enough, I absolutely LOVE).

However, since the station was Canadian, they managed to throw in the occasional wacky video, like tracks from a then-obscure K-OS and “Ol Time Killing” by Kardinal Offishall, which I also fell immediately in love with. I remember the first time I saw it, even: it was some late-night hip hop show, and the dude hosting was counting down his top five producers of all time. If I remember correctly, the list went something like this:

1. Jay Dee
2. Ali Shaheed Muhammed
3. Premiere
4. Pete Rock
5. Some dude from Da Grassroots

Yeah, I don’t really know who Da Grassroots are either (crazy Canadians!), but apparently one dude from there produced Kardinal’s “Ol Time Killing” (as evidence by his “knew it was murder since Da Grassroots produced this” line), and this was the video they showed to accompany his number five producer pick.

And jeez if that song doesn’t kill. How Kardinal’s album, Quest For Fire, didn’t blow the hell up because of that song, I’ll never know. But now it’s time for round two, as the man from the T-Dot-O comes with a brand new track featuring none other than hit-maker extraordinaire Akon.

“Dangerous” has summer-jam written all over it, and something tells me the name Kardinal Offishall is going to be tossed around a lot more here in the near future.