Pip Skid Explained

Pip Skid
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Background:	solo_singer
Birth Name:	Patrick Skene
Label:	Peanuts & Corn Records

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]

Career

In the early 1990s Skid was a co-founder of Canadian hip hop group Farm Fresh, 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 on the hip hop charts. Skid's 2010 album Skid Row peaked at #4^[9] on the Canadian Hip Hop charts on May 1, 2010.

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)^{[10] [11]}
• Taking Care of Business - Taking Care of Business (CD, First Things First)^[12]
• 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)^[13]

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)

Notes and References

1. http://www.exclaim.ca/musicreviews/generalreview.aspx?csid1=141&csid2=865&fid1=46039 "Pip Skid Skid Row"
2. http://www.urbnet.com/editorial.asp?ueid=152 Covers + Features
3. http://exclaim.ca/articles/research.aspx?csid1=27 Breaking Bread with Peanuts & Corn
4. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/music/street-cred-87318882.html "Street Cred"
5. . Chart Attack, September 04, 2001, Charlottetown, PEI. Review by: Ryan O'Connor
6. . Chart Attack.
7. https://www.straight.com/article/pip-skid "Pip Skid - Music Choices
8. . Chart Attack, Jan 18, 2005
9. . Chart Attack.
10. Winnipeg Free Press, 10 November 2007, "Pip Skid The Pip Donahue Show..." by Anthony Augustine
11. http://ugsmag.com/2009/02/pip-skid-3/ Pip Skid
12. Chart Attack
13. http://uptownmag.com/2010-03-11/page5498.aspx "Pip Skid Has Arrived"