By Tim Collins

Snotty Nose Rez Kids are a force to be reckoned with.

The duo of Darren 91裸聊视频淵oung D91裸聊视频� Metz and Quinton 91裸聊视频淵ung Trybez91裸聊视频� Nyce, originally from Kitamaat Village, produce some of the most exciting hip-hop music of their generation. They have become internationally recognized for their work, and although the awards keep coming, the group remains true to their core values and the lessons they learned growing up on the reservation.

91裸聊视频淭he greatest award we could get is that the next generation hears our music and gets inspired to be the best versions of themselves,91裸聊视频� Metz said.

91裸聊视频淲hen we first started performing, we wanted a name that would tell people who we are without having to explain it. The symbolism is that it is rough out there but that there91裸聊视频檚 always love there too.91裸聊视频�

Winners of the 2023 Prism Prize, and shortlisted for the Junos, the duo has also been shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize, nominated for Best Hip Hop Album at the Indigenous Music Awards and for Indigenous Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards.

In short, the hip-hop duo has had an amazing rise to success.

The First Nations Haisla rappers are now based in Vancouver, but it91裸聊视频檚 the 91裸聊视频渞ez91裸聊视频� that molded these remarkable artists into who they are today.

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And although rap and hip-hop have often been viewed as the music of the oppressed, characterized by a sort of rough anger, Nyce has a different perspective.

91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 not all about street life, and it91裸聊视频檚 not all about anger. There91裸聊视频檚 love and compassion there. It91裸聊视频檚 about life experience,91裸聊视频� Nyce said. 91裸聊视频淚f you live on the street, you express that, but if you91裸聊视频檙e and artist and you have love in your heart, you express that as well.91裸聊视频�

The duo has produced six albums to date and is poised to release their seventh this spring.

91裸聊视频淥ur next album has sort of an Indigenous futurism theme with hints of an apocalypse and how living in the old ways can be the answer,91裸聊视频� Nyce said.

Metz said when they put out an album, 91裸聊视频渋t91裸聊视频檚 like us checking in on the world.91裸聊视频�

That was certainly the case when the group released their 91裸聊视频淟ife After91裸聊视频� album in 2021.

91裸聊视频淭hat album came out after the pandemic and it reflected the tragedy and emotional pain that we all experienced during that time, but it also reflected the love and the hope that would allow us to go on.91裸聊视频�

Snotty Nose Rez Kids is now in their seventh year performing professionally, and although they are both now married with Metz expecting his first child, the duo still pursues a gruelling performance schedule.

91裸聊视频淲e do about 80 to 120 shows a year and we91裸聊视频檝e toured all over North America, and we91裸聊视频檝e toured the Netherlands, the U.K., Mexico, and Australia. Our next album actually has some big-name Australian artists as part of it, so we91裸聊视频檙e definitely branching out,91裸聊视频� said Nyce.

Metz added their music has changed as they gather more growth and maturity.

91裸聊视频淚91裸聊视频檇 never travelled outside B.C. before and now we91裸聊视频檝e been all over. But no matter where we go, we try to find the best of the situations and we grow and mature. It91裸聊视频檚 like our education.91裸聊视频�

That education began, however, back on the 91裸聊视频渞ez.91裸聊视频�

91裸聊视频淲e definitely grew up at a young age,91裸聊视频� said Metz. 91裸聊视频淎nd what inspired us most was family. I remember watching my mom taking the mike at a feast and how she was always confident and composed. Those moments shaped us as artists.91裸聊视频�

And being an Indigenous artist can be a challenge, to be sure.

91裸聊视频淚 think we probably had to work three times as hard to get as far as we have compared with the average white dude, but that struggle made us who we are,91裸聊视频� said Nyce. 91裸聊视频淭he truth is that now is a good time to be an Indigenous artist, in part because of the work that we91裸聊视频檝e all put in before. Rez dogs roll in packs, and so do we.91裸聊视频�

Their background continues to inform their approach to music and may well be the secret to their success.

91裸聊视频淚 feel that what we91裸聊视频檝e always wanted to do is make music that makes us feel good. If it makes us feel good, then someone out there hearing it will feel good as well,91裸聊视频� said Metz. 91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 like a modern-day medicine ceremony 91裸聊视频� all good vibes. If it91裸聊视频檚 healing for us, then we know it will help others too.91裸聊视频�

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