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By Stuart Derdeyn
March 30, 2025
The Haisla duo from Kitamaat Village won the award for its most recent album, Red Future
Snotty Nose Rez Kids became the first Indigenous group to win the Juno award for rap album of the year at Saturday night’s Juno Awards Gala at the Vancouver Convention Centre. The Haisla duo from Kitamaat Village won the award for its most recent album, Red Future.
Fitted out in member Quinton “Yung Trybez” Nyce’s Savage Kids fashions, SNRK shouted out its love of hip-hop music and its pride in winning in their adopted homeland on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
“I would say that we are most proud of Red Future being our best work to date, but also all of the artists who were a part of it,” said Darren “Young D” Metz. “We all come from the same place, but have different points of view, and that is what every artist brought to the table and a rising tide raises all the boats. Red Future is about setting up the next generations.”
Given the popularity of rap music in the cultural landscape, the question of why the category is not awarded in the main Juno broadcast was put to CARAS/Juno head Allan Reid. He said that every year is a challenge to determine what to add or drop from the awards and the broadcast and that this year’s event in Vancouver is going to be honing in on both the most popular categories as well as the special honours, such as the lifetime achievement one being given to legend Anne Murray.
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