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Pip Skid
Pip Skid performing at the 2007 Ellice Street Festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Pip Skid performing at the 2007 Ellice Street Festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Background information
BornBrandon, Manitoba
OriginVancouver
GenresHip hop
LabelsPeanuts & 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

References

  1. ^ Beats & Rhymes
  2. ^ Covers + Features
  3. ^ Breaking Bread with Peanuts & Corn
  4. ^ Street Cred
  5. ^ Hip Hop Charts
  6. ^ Hip Hop Charts
  7. ^ General Charts
  8. ^ Music Choices
  9. ^ Winnipeg Free Press, 10 November 2007, "Pip Skid The Pip Donahue Show..." by Anthony Augustine
  10. ^ Skratch Bastid, John Smith & Pip Skid — Taking Care Of Business
  11. ^ Pip Skid Has Arrived
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