Snotty Nose Rez Kids - "Change (feat. ebonEmpress & Jenny Lea)" from the 2021 album Life After on Distorted Muse.

Vancouver-based duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids live up to their name. The duo of Darren “Young D” Metz and Quinton “Yung Trybez” Nyce formed the group in 2016 after seeing a show headlined by fellow-Indigenous artists, the hip-hop collective First Ladies Crew. As members of the Haisla nation, the pair knew they could use music to both celebrate and elevate their heritage.

“As Indigenous people who have been shit on year after year after year by the government, from the people, from our own people, the media, the police… I feel like Indigenous people have developed our own sense of humour that only we get,” Nyce toldRange. “For us, the way we grew up listening to rap and hip-hop, it was so dark and heavy and it just weighed on you. You couldn’t listen to it more than once unless you were in the right mindset. So for us, coming up, our message, our music, we wanted to talk about the heavy stuff but with a positive spin. And making sure that at the end of the day you left smiling — on a high note. We never want people to feel down on themselves. We want to lift our people up, not bring them down.” Metz adds: “It’s just like our name also, Snotty Nose Rez Kids; it explains who we are without having to explain who we are. You gotta have a sense of humour when you come through trauma.”

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Snotty Nose Rez Kids - "Change (feat. ebonEmpress &amp; Jenny Lea)" from the 2021 album Life After on Distorted Muse.
Vancouver-based duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids live up to their name. The duo of Darren &ldquo;Young D&rdquo; Metz and Quinton &ldquo;Yung Trybez&rdquo; Nyce formed the group in 2016 after seeing a show headlined by fellow-Indigenous artists, the hip-hop collective First Ladies Crew. As members of the Haisla nation, the pair knew they could use music to both celebrate and elevate their heritage.
&ldquo;As Indigenous people who have been shit on year after year after year by the government, from the people, from our own people, the media, the police&hellip; I feel like Indigenous people have developed our own sense of humour that only we get,&rdquo; Nyce told<a href="https://readrange.com/snotty-nose-rez-kids-cover-interview"> Range</a>. &ldquo;For us, the way we grew up listening to rap and hip-hop, it was so dark and heavy and it just weighed on you. You couldn&rsquo;t listen to it more than once unless you were in the right mindset. So for us, coming up, our message, our music, we wanted to talk about the heavy stuff but with a positive spin. And making sure that at the end of the day you left smiling &mdash; on a high note. We never want people to feel down on themselves. We want to lift our people up, not bring them down.&rdquo; Metz adds: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s just like our name also, Snotty Nose Rez Kids; it explains who we are without having to explain who we are. You gotta have a sense of humour when you come through trauma.&rdquo;
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