Hip-hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids lose recording studio in Vancouver fire

CBC Music

· Posted: Apr 28, 2025 2:33 PM EDT | Last Updated: April 28

Recent Juno winners Snotty Nose Rez Kids lost their signaling studio, equipment, covering store and much successful an East Vancouver occurrence that took spot on April 23. 

The Haisla rappers Quinton "Yung Trybez" Nyce and Darren "Young D" Metz took to Instagram to stock the news, writing: "With a dense bosom we had to ticker portion a occurrence took retired our signaling studio, our store lodging RBRTH covering and our store for Savage Kids, not to notation irreplaceable items similar paintings, artwork, customized disguise carvings and different items we'd travel to cherish."

"So overmuch time, energy, wealth and effort went into these and we watched it either pain up oregon get pummeled by h2o for 6+ hours," they continued.

The occurrence burned the Wohlford & Company gathering wherever their signaling workplace and Savage Kids covering shop were located. Two different buildings were damaged successful the blaze, and the occurrence is being investigated arsenic suspicious.

In their Instagram post, Yung Trybez and Young D besides shared that they launched a GoFundMe to rise wealth for the store and studio, which is wherever they recorded their past release, Red Future.

The album focused astir themes of Indigenous futurism and featured collaborations with Sebastian Gaskin, Princess Nokia and more. Red Future won the rappers their archetypal ever Juno Award successful March for rap album/EP of the year, and they performed unrecorded during the broadcast successful Vancouver.

WATCH | Snotty Nose Rez Kids and Tia Wood execute Red Future, Dirt Roads, One of the Best, Shapeshifter and Free unrecorded astatine the 2025 Juno Awards:

On the GoFundMe page, they wrote that they had mislaid each of their signaling equipment, soundproofing panels and "everything you would request to tally a signaling studio."

"If you privation to connection a donation to enactment america getting done this and gathering these places backmost up, you tin bash truthful done the nexus successful our bio. Either way, each emotion and I conjecture it's lone up from here," they concluded successful their Instagram post.

As of April 28, much than $15, 000 has been raised.