Pat Clifton is a Calgary based Canadian hip hop artist, songwriter, and producer who channels personal storytelling and candid self examination into his music. After earning multiple YYC Music Awards nominations over the years, he took home R and B Soul Recording of the Year in 2024 for his collaboration titled Blood Moon with The Nolias. Teaming up with Calgary hip hop legend Tea Fannie, his latest release builds toward his upcoming seven track album titled I Spoke With Aunt Nancy.

When mainstream culture routinely erases Black and Brown historical figures from collective memory, art becomes a vital tool for reclamation. Pat Clifton and Tea Fannie tackle this erasure head on with their single, The Night They Took Chloe Cooley. Rooted in the history of an enslaved woman whose resistance in Queenston, Upper Canada, sparked the 1793 Act to Limit Slavery, the track refuses to let historical struggles fade into the background. Tea Fannie anchors the first half of the record by addressing present day realities. She navigates workplace tokenism, performative allyship, code-switching, and the exhaustion of hypervisibility with raw honesty. Her performance shifts from sharp confrontation into powerful self-affirmation, rejecting silence and demanding space on her own terms. Following a gritty beat switch, Clifton steps in with a verse anchored in gritty hip hop drums. Instead of merely recounting historical tragedy, he deploys an alternate history approach where Chloe Cooley overpowers her captors, overturns the boat, and escapes. It is a deliberate refusal of historical victimization, opting instead for a narrative of active liberation.