Peanuts & Corn Records

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Peanuts & Corn is a Canadian independent record label, releasing hip hop recordings since 1994. [1] They have also been a distributor of Canadian hip hop releases since 2002.

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History

Peanuts & Corn was founded in Brandon, Manitoba, by Rod Bailey AKA mcenroe. [2] [3] The first recording to be produced under the label was The Space EP, created by mcenroe's band, Farm Fresh in 1994. [4]

The label has since relocated first Winnipeg, Manitoba, and later Vancouver, British Columbia, where it is now based. [5] One of the most actively involved artists at Peanuts & Corn hs been Pip Skid, who has also gone by the name of Wicked Nut. [6]

By 2004 Peanuts & Corn, along with its sister company Breadwinner Music Group, was producing and releasing tracks and albums for a number of artists in the Canadian hip hop music scene, [7] [8] As of 2010 there had been about 40 releases on Peanuts & Corn, and more on affiliated and subsidiary labels throughout Canada and internationally. [9]

Artists with releases on P&C

P&C imprints and affiliations

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References

  1. ↑ Breaking Bread with Peanuts & Corn. Exclaim! , November 2001.
  2. ↑ Wishahouse: Great white Northerner never-weres make a mountain out of a prole hill Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine . The Village Voice , August 30, 2005.
  3. ↑ Holy crap! Nuts and corn Archived 2005-11-14 at the Wayback Machine Gauntlet, March 24, 2005 by Nolan Lewis,University of Calgary. Archived at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "Label Life: Peanuts & Corn". Exclaim!, Archived at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ "A Winter Harvest". Uptown, Archived 2009-03-23 at the Wayback Machine Archived at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "Skid makes his mark". Now Magazine, by Jason Richards, September 29, 2005.
  7. ↑ Label Life: Peanuts & Corn. Exclaim! , September 2005.
  8. ↑ "Breaking Out". Georgia Strait, by Martin Turenne on February 26th, 2004
  9. ↑ "Foultone Records Presents: Pip Skid [PSA + Audio]" Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine . Hip Hop Canada, Mar 12th, 2010
  10. ↑ "Pip Skid Skid Row". Exclaim!, By Thomas Quinlan. Apr 24, 2010
  11. ↑ "John Smith – Pinky’s Laundromat (Peanuts & Corn / 29)". Debug, 27.8.2004
  12. ↑ "Birdapres Nothing Is Cool (with Mcenroe)". Tiny Mixtapes
  13. ↑ Peanuts & Corn Records". Stylus, APRIL — MAY 2016 Issue . Harrison Samphir.
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