The album earned Swollen Members their second Juno Award and four MuchMusic Video Awards including best rap video, best director and best independent video. It appealed to both underground and mainstream audiences, reaching platinum status in Canada. The group began testing the international hip-hop waters by releasing four 12-inch vinyl singles on Madchild's own indie label Battleaxe Records initially distributed by New York-based Fat Beats the singles sold approximately 10,000 copies each.Ģ001-2002: Second album and mainstream success įollowing Balance, Swollen Members recorded and released Bad Dreams, released on November 13, 2001, and featuring guests such as Chali 2na of Jurassic 5, Son Doobie, Joey Chavez, and former member Moka Only. The group had to decide on a name and Moka Only suggested Swollen Members as a joke and it stuck. There he met Prevail and Moka Only, who had been working together. Having begun a solo career while living in San Francisco, California, Madchild returned to Vancouver to work. Swollen Members was founded in 1990 by Vancouverites Madchild (Shane Bunting), Prevail (Kiley Hendriks), and Moka Only (Daniel Denton). From 1996 to 2016, Swollen Members were the second best-selling Canadian hip hop artist in Canada (behind Drake) and were the best-selling Canadian hip hop group in Canada. Swollen Members has released nine studio albums, one greatest hits album and 2 compilations, as well as numerous other singles. Frequent collaborators include vocalist Moka Only (who was actually a member of the group for a short period of time in the mid-1990s when the group was formed, and then again from 2002 to 2005) along with the other former members Easy Roc & Zodak who were only in the group for a few years and producer Rob the Viking, an official group member since 2002. Swollen Members is a Canadian hip hop group from Vancouver, British Columbia, consisting mainly of Madchild and Prevail. PCP Productions, Suburban Noize, Virgin Records
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