Media
TV interviews, print features, web interviews, and podcasts — a running archive as it's gathered.
TV
100 Huntley Street · February 1, 2017
ForestView Pastor Cyril Guerette
100 Huntley Street · December 10, 2010
Psalm Bombing: Beats Meets Bible
360Vision (VisionTV) · 2003
Take the Rap — Ill Seer
100 Huntley Street · August 9, 2011
Cyril Guerette, Part 1 of 2
100 Huntley Street · August 9, 2011
Cyril Guerette, Part 2 of 2
The Perspective with Mike Sherbino
Cyril Guerette — Pastor, Groundswell Church (Conspiracy Theories)
Feature
HipHop Helps — RAISE
Jim Cantelon Today · July 10, 2016
Jim Cantelon Today — Episode 127
100 Huntley Street
"Faith During Hard Times" — 100 Huntley Street (April 22, 2020)
Toronto Star · July 24, 2013
Toronto's youth churches make it hip to be holy
“The pastor is Cyril Guérette, a rare theologian known for mixing '90s hip-hop lyrics with Bible verses. ‘Paul quotes from Aratus. I quote from (rapper) Inspectah Deck,’ Guérette says. ‘Those who love Jesus, love him the same way he's been loved for 2,000 years.’”
Toronto Star · January 18, 2009
Pray for hope and change? Yes they can
“‘We try to weave it in tastefully,’ says Guerette. ‘We have to make sure ... we don't bring our own political views in but also respecting that we need to be able to speak at the topics at hand.’”
Toronto Star · September 13, 2007
Energy Pusher
“Cyril Guérette would like to see all the lights in the city powered by bikes. ... That's when he came up with We'Lo (the name is derived from We Love), an organization dedicated to producing clean energy to power the lights for non-profit, schools, government buildings and gyms.”
700 Club Canada, "Modern Fatherhood" week (Father's Day series, five episodes) — June 9–13, 2014
Hamilton Spectator, "Church of the Young and Hip" — August 10, 2013
Newstalk 1010, The Mike Bullard Show — July 24, 2013
CBC Radio One, Metro Morning, "Fasting from Facebook" — April 17, 2012
Toronto Sun, "Pedal Power to the People" — January 28, 2008
94.3 Faith FM, Radio interview — June 3, 2006
94.3 Faith FM, Radio interview — May 28, 2005
100 Huntley Street, Interview — March 11, 2003
FreeTV, Interview — December 26, 2003
No surviving copy found online for these yet — if you have a clipping or recording, send it over.
Podcasts
Jon Corbin Podcast
Jon Corbin Podcast Ep. 2 — Cyril Guerette: The Liturgy of Life
The Water Cooler Effect · July 6, 2016
Add Inspiration to Your Communication w/ Cyril Guerette
WikiGod Podcast with Mark Groleau
Episode 38: Unpayable Activities (Part 1 of 2)
The original hosting for this show has gone offline, so it's mirrored here directly. Part 2, "What Keeps Them Coming Back?" (Episode 39), is still being tracked down.
The Sophia Society of Tyndale
Fake News, Conspiracy Theories, and Social Media
Web
CBN.com · June 3, 2014
700 Club Canada: June 3, 2014
“Solo interview segment — the lead-in to the following week's "Modern Fatherhood" series.”
PreachPastor.com · March 26, 2012
ILL Seer: One on One with DJ Worship More
“As a believer, my parents came to faith when I was quite young, and I was raised in the ways of the Lord. As a teenager, I pushed back but God brought me around during a revival period in my hometown of Sarnia, Ontario... In 2002, God woke me back up by the amazing church which I now have come to pastor.”
Prophetic Poetic · February 24, 2010
“Nectar” — music video from Ill Seer
“Darryl Augustine... wanted to do something to get the word out about our ‘Fruit of the Spirit’ sermon series at FreeChurch Toronto. He and our Associate Pastor, Kevin Makins, got together 9 artists to meditate on each of the qualities... This particular video was for KINDNESS.”
Documentary
ONE, TWO, THREE — The Runaway Documentary
Love Movement
LOVEmovement feat. Cyril Guerette — Love is not...
Holy Week Series
The full six-part Holy Week video series — also on the home page, alongside the album it accompanies on the Music page.
Music Reviews
Press for Ill Seer's music, from the UK hip-hop outlets that covered Delegates of Culture in the early 2000s through to Exclaim!'s 2012 review of Doxological Freestyles Vol. 1.
“It's a definite must for Christian rap fans. Ill Seer's presentation and off-the-cuff wordplay should serve as ample compensation for any freestyle rap fans, delving into the "liturgical use of freestyle lyricism" — each song a public prayer recorded live at the final benediction of the weekly service, or the opening invocation to the theology and philosophy classes he teaches.”
“The Ill Seer drops brilliant inspired lyrics and has performed with countless hip hop artists from around the world.”
“Ill Seer's voice sounds angry, getting whatever is on his chest off. With some nice lyrical word play in there too.”
“Omni-present in the underground scene ... invest.”
“Ill Seer is quite a complex rhymer.”
“Underground superstars ... this is how it should be done.”
“F8 sees Hoodee's beat blessed with the vocal talents of Canadian mc “Ill Seer” from the Delegates of Culture. Seer displays a complex lyrical flow but has no problem fitting in over Hoodee's bass heavy beat construction. This is a nice track.”
“A quality record that will grow and grow on headz.”
“'F8' kicks things off with pure Edan/Necro-style sickness from Ill Seer (from the Delegates of Culture) — his flow getting more and more hysterical as the bass-heavy drone builds the tension.”
“The veteran delegates return ... 4/5.”
“Quite simply the bomb. If this fails to satisfy you may as well give up trying to appreciate real hiphop and take up crochet or something. Secure your copy before they cost 50 quid on Ebay.”
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