Pip Skid
Pip Skid | |
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Pip Skid performing at the 2007 Ellice Street Festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba. | |
Background information | |
Born | Brandon, Manitoba |
Origin | Vancouver |
Genres | Hip hop |
Labels | Peanuts & Corn Records |
Patrick Skene, known professionally as Pip Skid and Wicked Nut, is a Canadian rapper and writer, and a cornerstone of the Vancouver-based independent hip hop label Peanuts & Corn.[1] Originally hailing from Brandon, Manitoba, Pip is known for his distinctive gravel-throated vocals.[2]
He is a co-founder of Canadian hip hop group Farm Fresh, as well as a member of other crews such as Fermented Reptile, Hip Hop Weiners, Taking Care of Business, and Break Bread.[3][4] His album Skid Row peaked at #4[5] on the Canadian Hip Hop charts on May 1, 2010. This album follows in the footsteps of Funny Farm 2 which hit #3[6] on the hip hop charts and Funny Farm which hit #32[7] on the combined charts. His single "Alone Again" from the 2004 album Funny Farm achieved rotation on the national music network Much Music.[8]
Selected discography
- 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)[9]
- Taking Care of Business - Taking Care of Business (CD, First Things First)[10]
- 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)[11]
Appears on
- 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
- ↑ Beats & Rhymes
- ↑ Covers + Features
- ↑ Breaking Bread with Peanuts & Corn
- ↑ Street Cred
- ↑ Hip Hop Charts
- ↑ Hip Hop Charts
- ↑ General Charts
- ↑ Music Choices
- ↑ Winnipeg Free Press, 10 November 2007, "Pip Skid The Pip Donahue Show..." by Anthony Augustine
- ↑ Skratch Bastid, John Smith & Pip Skid — Taking Care Of Business
- ↑ Pip Skid Has Arrived