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- ↑ "CBC Music Live". CBC.ca. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
- ↑ "Hip-hop act quietly plotting world domination". Winnipeg Free Press , February 5, 2015.
- ↑ "Watch this year's Juno Awards". CBC.ca. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
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