Hope in Dirt City

Hope in Dirt City is the third album by Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon. It was released on May 29, 2012, on Upper Class Recordings.^[1]

Hope in Dirt City
Studio album by Cadence Weapon
Released	May 29, 2012
Genre	Alternative hip hop
Length	38:13
Label	Upper Class Recordings
Producer	Cadence Weapon
Cadence Weapon chronology
Afterparty Babies (2008) Hope in Dirt City (2012) Cadence Weapon (2018)

Release

The music video for the first single "Conditioning" was released in April 2012.^[2]

The whole album can be streamed on the Exclaim! website since May 22, 2012.^[3]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Consequence of Sound	[5]
Pitchfork	6.0/10.0[6]
Prefix	favorable[7]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[8]
Toronto Star	[9]

The album was named as a shortlisted nominee for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize, the second time a Cadence Weapon album has been on the Polaris shortlist. He was previously nominated in 2006 for his debut album Breaking Kayfabe.^[10]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Get on Down"	1:59
2.	"Conditioning"	2:59
3.	"Jukebox"	2:52
4.	"Cheval"	2:27
5.	"(You Can't Stop) The Machine" (featuring Buck 65)	3:19
6.	"No More Names (Aditi)"	3:37
7.	"Small Deaths"	2:54
8.	"Hype Man"	3:55
9.	"There We Go"	5:28
10.	"Crash Course for the Ravers"	4:21
11.	"Hope in Dirt City"	4:22