Mcenroe (rapper)
Rod Bailey, stage name Mcenroe, is a Canadian hip hop musician, and music industry entrepreneur.[1] As an entrepreneur, he is the founder of his record label Peanuts & Corn Recordings, an independent hip hop distributor,[2][3] as well as a company specializing in the marketing and promotion of independent music in Canada, Breadwinner Music Group.[4]
Career
As Mcenroe, Bailey was part of the hip hop band Farm Fresh.[5] He founded Peanuts & Corn in Brandon, Manitoba in 1994,[2] and through it produced the band's first recording.[4] He then moved his studio and label to Winnipeg, where he continued to write, perform and produce in the hip hop scene.
Mcenroe took a musical as well as production part Birdapres' album Nothing is Cool.[6] The pair toured around Canada in support of the album.[7] He also released several solo albums of his own raps, including Disenfranchised in 2006.[8]
Mcenroe later moved to Vancouver, where his label is a part of the Farm Fresh collective.[9]
In 2013, Mcenroe was interviewed about the hip hop music industry in Canada for the documentary film Hip Hop Eh.[10]
Selected discography
Solo work
- mcenroe - Billy's Vision
- mcenroe - disenfranchised (2006)
- mcenroe - 5 Years in the Factory
- mcenroe - The Convenience EP
- mcenroe - The Ethics EP
- mcenroe - Burnt Orange
with others
- mcenroe and Birdapres - Nothing is Cool
- Break Bread - Break Bread EP
- Farm Fresh - Crazy Fiction
- Farm Fresh - Played Out
- Farm Fresh - The Space Ep
- Farm Fresh Time is Running Out
- Parklike Setting - School Day 2, Garbage Day 4
- Parklike Setting / Fermented Reptile - Split 12"
Selected productions
- Aberfoyle Springs Compilation
- Different Shades of Black - Next School Pioneers
- Fermented Reptile - Let's Just Call You "Quits"
- Fishin' In Troubled Waters - Fishin' In Troubled Waters
- Frek Sho - Kingpin 12"
- Gruf the Druid - Druidry
- Gruf the Druid - Hopeless
- Hip Hop Wieners - All Beef, No Chicken
- Ink Operated - Ink Operated Presents
- Ismaila - Just Stretching
- Ismaila - Mark of the Zebra
- John Smith - High Arctics
- John Smith - Blunderbus (or, In Transit)
- John Smith - Pinky's Laundromat
- John Smith - Smithtape Vol. 1: Foxhunting
- Josh Martinez - Buck Up, Princess
- Mood Ruff - Fluid
- Mood Ruff - night.life.types
- Mood Ruff - Maxim
- Pip Skid - Money Matters 7"
- Pip Skid - Friends4Ever
- Pip Skid - Funny Farm
- Pip Skid - I'm Mean
- Peanuts & Corn - Factory Seconds
- Peanuts & Corn - Fall 2003
- Peanuts & Corn - Spring 2001
- Peanuts & Corn - Summer 2002
- Peanuts & Corn - Tape Hiss (1993-97)
- Roddy Rod - Emissions
- Satchel Paige - Guy I'm From Here
- Shadez Ov Black - Comprehension
- Stace Prints - Soulivar
- Taking Care of Business - Taking Care of Business 12"
- Yy - Hold The Fort Down
References
- ↑ "A Winter Harvest". Uptown, Archived at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 Wishahouse: Great white Northerner never-weres make a mountain out of a prole hill Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine.. The Village Voice, August 30, 2005.
- ↑ Holy crap! Nuts and corn Gauntlet, March 24, 2005 by Nolan Lewis,University of Calgary. Archived at the Wayback Machine.
- 1 2 "Label Life: Peanuts & Corn". Exclaim!, Archived at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Peanuts & Corn Records". Stylus, April — May 2016 Issue . Harrison Samphir.
- ↑ "Birdapres Nothing Is Cool (with Mcenroe)". Tiny Mixtapes
- ↑ " Mcenroe & Birdapres Gypsy Co-Op, Toronto ON". Exclaime!, By Thomas Quinlan. May 01, 2005
- ↑ "Mcenroe Acts His Age". Exclaim!, By Thomas Quinlan Jan 01, 2006.
- ↑ "mcenroe" USG Magazine November 12, 2007. Archived at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Hip Hop Eh: A reverent Canadian doc, but not the last word". Dave Morris, The Globe and Mail, Mar. 15, 2013