Rich Kidd is a two-time nominee for the Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year as a solo artist, garnering nominations at the Juno Awards of 2013 for The Closers and at the Juno Awards of 2014 for In My Opinion.
13 Facts About Rich Kidd
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Rich Kidd graduated from Loyola Catholic Secondary School and was a graduate of The Remix Project; an educational youth program for music, art, and business.
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Rich Kidd began producing music as a teenager and received his first production credit at 19 years old for rap artists Frank n Dank's "Get Right Song".
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In 2010 Rich Kidd performed at Canadian Hip Hop festival Manifesto, and received production credits on Shad's Juno award-winning album TSOL with the song "Listen".
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Rich Kidd received a nomination for Producer of the Year at the 2010 Stylus awards and returned the following year to five nominations including an award for Artist Mixtape of the Year.
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Rich Kidd launched his directorial debut Trespassing, a semi-biographical short film featured in the City Life Film Project and debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival's Bell Lightbox.
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In 2011, Kendrick Lamar stated in an interview that Rich Kidd is a Canadian artist he would like to work with.
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Jay-Z's engineer, Young Guru, has said that Rich Kidd is one of his favorite producers due to him being exposed to his production on the unreleased Jay Electronica album: "Act II".
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In 2012, Rich Kidd released an instrumental mixtape Kiddstrumentals and his first studio album The Closers along with Vancouver MC SonReal which landed him a Juno Nomination for Rap Recording of the Year and another nomination for Hip Hop Video of the Year for the song "Hometown".
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In 2014, Rich Kidd hosted several Noisey and Vice Media documentaries such as "Rich Kidd in Iqaluit" and "First Out Here: Indigenous Hip Hop in Canada" that continue to play on Viceland, Vice's television station.
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In 2017, Rich Kidd starred alongside Melinda Shankar and Pat Thornton in the movie Filth City, a loosely-based parody of the Rob Ford crack scandal.
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Rich Kidd is very much involved in the community arts sector, working with various organizations and mentorship programs.
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Rich Kidd is currently serving as the Recording Arts program leader of The Remix Project.