{"id":17687,"date":"2019-05-15T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17687"},"modified":"2019-06-07T12:56:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T19:56:10","slug":"snotty-nose-rez-kids-bring-hip-hop-with-a-message-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/05\/15\/snotty-nose-rez-kids-bring-hip-hop-with-a-message-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Snotty Nose Rez Kids bring hip hop with a message to town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Quinton \u201cYung Trybez\u201d\nNyce and Darren \u201cYoung D\u201d Metz, the two members of\nVancouver-based hip hop band Snotty Noze Rez Kids, are doing more\nthan making music\u2014they are communicating a message of empowerment\nand healing. They’re not the first to voice injustices through music,\nand\u2014like other musicians who create music this raw, real, and\nimpassioned\u2014they move their fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now they’re moving\ntheir fans with the songs on Trapline<\/em>,\ntheir third album, which follows up 2017’s The\nAverage Savage<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe exposed this state that we live in for what it was,\u201d says Nyce about The Average Savage<\/em>. \u201cFrom a young age we had racial stereotypes put on us, which made us think about ourselves in a different way than we should have. And then when you listen to Trapline<\/em>, it\u2019s all about being empowered, and power through unity, and ancestral knowledge, and land and identity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vancouver hip hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids are touring in support of their new album, Trapline<\/em> (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Trapline<\/em> rings with truth and empowerment. The band continues to write about stereotypes, ancestral pride, and both strength and pain being passed through genes from one generation to the next. They attribute their growing success to many factors, including perseverance, state of mind, and a responsibility to share their message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe realized early on\nthat we have a message that needs to be heard, and we realized we\nwanted to pursue music as a career with that message,\u201d says Nyce.\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t until we recorded The Average\nSavage<\/em> that we were just like, okay, we have\nsomething special here that the world needs to hear. Once we started\ngetting all the acknowledgment that The\nAverage Savage<\/em> got through the Polaris Prize,\nthe Western Canadian Music Awards, and then the Junos, we realized we\ncan actually do this as a career.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as their career\nevolves, so does their sound. For Trapline<\/em>,\ncollaboration with several other artists produced a more dynamic\nalbum and was also symbolic of the unity that\u2019s possible among\npeople regardless of race or other differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne thing we all had in\ncommon was hip hop,\u201d says Nyce. \u201cAnd on top of that, we all come\nfrom a very similar struggle, and we found that to get out of that\nstruggle, or to persevere through it, was through unity and\nknowledge. The reason why we chose all these different artists to\nhave on Trapline<\/em> is to\nshow the world\u2014not only the Indigenous community but the\nnon-Indigenous community\u2014that we\u2019re all the same.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflecting upon the\nhistory in North America, one may wonder, with all the damage done,\nthe injustice, the conflict, the trauma, and all the dysfunction that\nstill exists today, is it possible to truly heal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYeah, definitely,\u201d\nsays Metz. \u201cWe did some really personal healing on the first album.\n‘Black Blood’ is the aftermath of losing somebody to suicide. That\nwas probably our most personal track, and we\u2019ve had some fans\ntattoo lyrics from that track. So it\u2019s not only healing us, it\u2019s\ndefinitely helping others heal, and once we realized that, you know,\nthere\u2019s no turning back, really.\u201d \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Snotty Nose Rez Kids\nare exposing deep-rooted and significant social, political, and\npersonal issues among Canadians. There are many questions and\nuncertainties about how we can coexist peacefully\u2014if at all\u2014given\nour history, but Nyce and Metz believe wholeheartedly that harmony\ncan be achieved. Nyce says that’s exactly what some of the lyrics on\nTrapline<\/em> are about.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was pretty much a\ncall-out to people that haven\u2019t figured it out yet, you know?\u201d he\nsays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snotty Nose Rez Kids
8 pm Friday, June 7
$15, Capital Ballroom
thecapitalballroom.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quinton \u201cYung Trybez\u201d Nyce and Darren \u201cYoung D\u201d Metz, the two members of Vancouver-based hip hop band Snotty Noze Rez Kids, are doing more than making music\u2014they are communicating a message of empowerment and healing. They’re not the first to voice injustices through music, and\u2014like other musicians who create music this raw, real, and impassioned\u2014they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-may-15-2019-issue"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17689,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687\/revisions\/17689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}