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"\"&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_82137\\\" style=\\\"width: 640px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption alignright\\\"&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powdermag.com\\/files\\/2012\\/12\\/DL-Performing.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;img src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powdermag.com\\/files\\/2012\\/12\\/DL-Performing.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" title=\\\"Please quit with the glancin, he\\u2019s been doin\\u2019 this since Helly Hansen\\u2026PHOTO: COURTESY DL INCOGNITO\\\" width=\\\"640\\\" height=\\\"376\\\" class=\\\"size-full wp-image-82137\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2012\\/12\\/DL-Performing.jpg 640w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2012\\/12\\/DL-Performing-153x90.jpg 153w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2012\\/12\\/DL-Performing-100x58.jpg 100w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2012\\/12\\/DL-Performing-200x117.jpg 200w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt;Please quit with the glancin, he\\u2019s been doin\\u2019 this since Helly Hansen\\u2026PHOTO: COURTESY DL INCOGNITO&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Oliver Nestor earned his place in the past decade\\u2019s greatest ski movie moments. Dave Crichton\\u2019s comeback in &lt;em&gt;Forward&lt;\\/em&gt;, Sammy Carlson\\u2019s triple cork in &lt;em&gt;Seven Sunny Days&lt;\\/em&gt;, Corey Vanular\\u2019s Keystone throw down in &lt;em&gt;Long Story Short&lt;\\/em&gt;, Level 1\\u2019s coming out party in &lt;em&gt;Strike Three&lt;\\/em&gt;\\u2014Nestor played a part in all of them.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;But the Ottowa native wasn\\u2019t spinning off-axis. Instead, the 35-year-old, better known as hip-hop\\u2019s DL Incognito, was spitting rhymes for some of the most iconic film segments of the terrain park generation, becoming the cult artist on every skier\\u2019s playlist and a beneficiary of the unlikely partnership between skiing and hip-hop.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cI think [ski movies] opened up my music to a completely different demographic and let people that might not listen to my music otherwise\\u2026hear it through something else they love,\\u201d says DL. \\u201cIt\\u2019s a two for one deal\\u2014you get to see a crazy segment with a crazy trick pulled off for the first time, and the bass line for it is this really dope music from an artist you\\u2019ve never heard of.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;While DL may no longer be that \\u2018artist you\\u2019ve never heard of,\\u2019 he was when pro skier Scott Hibbert first heard him delivering his rhymes on the low in the summer of 2002. In an email interview, Hibbert says he received a mixtape from a friend that worked with DL and his twin brother, Nick Nestor, at Canada Post (Canada\\u2019s equivalent to USPS). He liked what he heard, and after convincing DL that skiing had progressed beyond spread eagles and double daffies, Hibbert contacted Level 1 founder Josh Berman.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Berman was also impressed\\u2014so much so that he used four of DL\\u2019s tracks in that year\\u2019s Level 1 production, &lt;em&gt;Strike Three&lt;\\/em&gt;. &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;And, after Level 1 introduced the young emcee with tracks like \\u201cAudio Coke\\u201d and \\u201cStreet Caviar,\\u201d the freeski world was hooked. \\u201cOnce you\\u2019re part of a certain subculture, other people in that subculture expose your music to everyone else and it kind of goes viral,\\u201d explains DL. \\u201cThat\\u2019s what happened to me [with freeskiing].\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The acclaim he gained in the ski and action sports community translated to success in Canadian hip-hop circles as well, helping him and producer DJ TechTwelve earn 2005 and 2007 nominations for the Juno Award for Best Rap Recording (he eventually lost out to other ski movie favorite Swollen Members). But despite the mainstream hype, he never lost his appeal in skiing.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cHe keeps appearing around the ski world. He\\u2019s always in edits on Newschoolers and what not,\\u201d says Berman. \\u201cIt\\u2019s cool to see that, with that little connection we had back in the day, he was able to parlay it into stoke and exposure in the ski community.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;A ski community that includes Poor Boyz and Stept Productions regular Matt Walker, who, in a 2010 interview, listed DL\\u2019s \\u201cAudio Coke\\u201d as the song that most reminded him of skiing. Sammy Carlson has included DL songs in three of his movie segments (&lt;em&gt;Ski Porn, Revolver&lt;\\/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Seven Sunny Days&lt;\\/em&gt;) in addition to his winning 2008 Jon Olson Super Sessions entry.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cI actually talked to him when I wanted to use his song \\u2018Hard to Do\\u2019 for my JOSS edit,\\u201d says Carlson, the 2011 X Games slopestyle gold medalist. \\u201cHe was really down with skiing, something that really motivated me to keep using him in other segments.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;While the rapper admits that the freeski community isn\\u2019t, \\u201cwhat you\\u2019d consider a typical audience for underground hip hop,\\u201d he has embraced his role in ski movie lore. In 2005, DL even performed at the Level 1 world premiere of &lt;em&gt;Shanghai Six&lt;\\/em&gt; in Boulder, Colorado, in what Berman remembers as, \\u201cone of my favorite world premieres ever.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;With his fifth studio album, &lt;em&gt;Someday Is Less Than A Second Away&lt;\\/em&gt;, scheduled for release in early 2013, we\\u2019ll have to wait and see if there\\u2019s a new chapter on tap for DL\\u2019s freeski legacy. &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cI feel like it all comes from the same place,\\u201d says DL. \\u201cIt\\u2019s just about being progressive in your art, progressive in your craft, and if I can provide a bass line for that, then it\\u2019s all good.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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