--- description: The polemical politician took a crack at DJ-ing title: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Drops Beats At South by Southwest Fundraiser image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Dropping Some Sick Beats by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 23, 2014 3:24 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 23, 2014 3:24 PM CUT If the whole politics thing doesn’t end up working out, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford — you know, the guy who admitted smoking crack — might just have a future as a hip-hop producer. At a South by Southwest fundraiser for Toronto artists this weekend, Ford played DJ and laid down some sick beats before a very enthusiastic audience. A good DJ knows how to get a crowd pumped up, and Ford seems to know how to do that better than anyone. So, if his[ attempt at re-election](http://world.time.com/2014/01/02/rob-ford-to-take-another-crack-at-mayoral-run/ "undefined") doesn’t pan out, it’s nice to know he’s got a solid fallback. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/9388/rob-ford-drops-hip-hop-beats-toronto/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/9388/rob-ford-drops-hip-hop-beats-toronto/"},"headline":"Here's Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Dropping Some Sick Beats","datePublished":"2014-02-23T15:24:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:17.619Z","description":"The polemical politician took a crack at DJ-ing","url":"https://time.com/9388/rob-ford-drops-hip-hop-beats-toronto/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Beats","Canada","Rob Ford","Toronto","Hip-Hop","Mayor"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/9388/rob-ford-drops-hip-hop-beats-toronto/","name":"Here's Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Dropping Some Sick Beats"}}]}] ```