Patrick Skene, known professionally as Pip Skid and Wicked Nut, is a Canadian rapper and writer, and one of the most active creative artists at the Vancouver & Winnipeg-based independent hip hop label Peanuts & Corn.[1] Skid is known for his distinctive gravel-throated vocals.[2]
Pip Skid | |
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 Pip Skid performing at the 2007 Ellice Street Festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba. | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Patrick Skene |
| Genres | Canadian Abstract hip hop |
| Labels | Peanuts & Corn Records |
Career
editIn the early 1990s Skid was a co-founder of Canadian hip hop group Farm Fresh,[1] and recorded an EP and three albums with that group. He was also a member of other crews such as Fermented Reptile, Hip Hop Weiners, Taking Care of Business, and Break Bread.[3][4]
In 2001 Skid took part in the Close To The Coast Festival in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.[5]
In 2004 Skid's album Funny Farm was released; it hit #32[6] on the combined charts. His single "Alone Again" from this album Funny Farm was played in rotation on the Much Music network.[7]
In 2005 Skid and fellow rapper mcenroe released an album, Funny Farm 2[8] which hit #3[9] on the hip hop charts. Skid's 2010 album Skid Row peaked at #4[10] on the Canadian Hip Hop charts on May 1, 2010.
Selected discography
edit- Farm Fresh - Space EP (CD, Peanuts & Corn)
- Farm Fresh - Crazy Fiction (CD, Peanuts & Corn)
- Farm Fresh - Played Out (CD,
- Farm Fresh - Time is Running Out (CD, Peanuts & Corn)
- Pip Skid - Friends4Ever (CD, Peanuts & Corn)
- Pip Skid - Money Matters (7", Peanuts & Corn)
- Pip Skid - I'm Mean (CD, Peanuts & Corn)
- Pip Skid - Funny Farm (CD, Peanuts & Corn)
- Pip Skid - Funny Farm 2 (12", Peanuts & Corn)
- Pip Skid - The Pip Donahue Show (2007) (EP, Independent)[11][12]
- Taking Care of Business - Taking Care of Business (CD, First Things First)[13]
- Fermented Reptile - Let's Just Call You "Quits" (CD, Peanuts & Corn)
- Hip Hop Weiners - All Beef, No Chicken (CD, Peanuts & Corn)
- Pip Skid - Skid Row (CD, Foultone)[14]
Appears on
edit- Best of Winnipeg Vol. 1 - The Emcees (DVD, Quality Hip-Hop)
- Culturama Video Collection Vol. 4 (DVD, Culturama)
- DJ Neoteric - Indie-cent Exposure Part 3 (CD, Futility Records)
- Epic - Local Only (CD, Clothes Horse Records)
- Epic - 8:30 in Newfoundland (CD, Clothes Horse Records)
- Fishin' In Troubled Waters - Fishin' In Troubled Waters (CD, Hip Hop Infinity Recordings)
- Mcenroe - 5 Years in the Factory (CD, Vertical Form)
- Mood Ruff - Maxim (CD, Slo Coach Recordings)
- Parklike Setting - School Day 2 Garbage Day 4 (CD, Peanuts & Corn)
- Peanuts & Corn - Summer 2002 (12", Peanuts & Corn)
- Peanuts & Corn - Factory Seconds (CD, Peanuts & Corn)
- Recyclone - Corroding the Dead World (CD, Clothes Horse Records)
- Rheostatics - Nitelines Recording Sessions (CD, Drog Canadian Recordings)
- Scribble Jam - Tour Documentary (DVD + CD, Scribble Magazine Productions)
- Sixtoo - Songs I Hate (And Other People Moments) (CD, Anticon)
- Sound Barriers - Sound Barriers (CD, Sound Barrier Recordings)
- The Goods - 4 Four (CD, Camobear)
- Various Artists - Bare Skin Compilation (CD, HipHopHotSpot.com)
- Various Artists - States of Abuse (CD, Entartete Kunst)
References
edit- ^ a b "Pip Skid Skid Row". Exclaim!, Thomas Quinlan Published Apr 24, 2010
- ^ Covers + Features Urbanet Archived 2010-05-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Breaking Bread with Peanuts & Corn. Exclaim!, November 2001.
- ^ "Street Cred". Winnipeg Free Press. Rob Williams 03/11/2010
- ^ "Live: Close To The Coast Festival"[usurped]. Chart Attack, September 04, 2001, Charlottetown, PEI. Review by: Ryan O'Connor
- ^ General Top 50 Charts[usurped]. Chart Attack.
- ^ "Pip Skid - Music Choices. Georgia Strait
- ^ "McEnroe/Pip Skid — Disenfranchised 2/Funny Farm 2"[usurped]. Chart Attack, Jan 18, 2005
- ^ Hip Hop Charts top ten. Chart Attack[usurped]
- ^ Hip Hop Charts[usurped]. Chart Attack.
- ^ Winnipeg Free Press, 10 November 2007, "Pip Skid The Pip Donahue Show..." by Anthony Augustine
- ^ Pip Skid UGSMag Feb 23, 2009 Interview
- ^ Skratch Bastid, John Smith & Pip Skid — Taking Care Of Business[usurped] Chart Attack
- ^ "Pip Skid Has Arrived". Uptown. 210-03-11.