Peanuts & Corn Records
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Peanuts & Corn is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

, releasing hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 recordings since 1994
1994 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.-January–February:*January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so....

. They have also been a distributor of Canadian hip hop
Canadian hip hop
The Canadian hip hop scene was first established in the 1980s. Through a variety of factors, it developed much more slowly than Canada's popular rock music scene, and apart from a short-lived burst of mainstream popularity from 1989 to 1991, it remained largely an underground phenomenon until the...

 releases since 2002.

Founded in Brandon, Manitoba
Brandon, Manitoba
Brandon is the second largest city in Manitoba, Canada, and is located in the southwestern area of the province. Brandon is the largest city in the Westman region of Manitoba. The city is located along the Assiniboine River. Spruce Woods Provincial Park and CFB Shilo are a relatively short distance...

 by Rod Bailey AKA mcenroe
Mcenroe
mcenroe, also known as Rod Bailey, is a Canadian hip hop musician, and entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur, he is the founder of his record label Peanuts & Corn Recordings, an independent hip hop distributor, as well as a company specializing in the marketing and promotion of independent music in...

, the label has since relocated to, first Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...

, Manitoba
Manitoba
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, and later Vancouver
Vancouver
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, British Columbia
British Columbia
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, where it is now based. To date, there have been over 40 releases on Peanuts & Corn, and many more on affiliated and subsidiary labels throughout Canada and the world.

As of summer 2005, Peanuts & Corn remains active in the Canadian hip hop music scene, along with sister company Breadwinner Music Group.

Artists with Releases on P&C Include

  • mcenroe
    Mcenroe
    mcenroe, also known as Rod Bailey, is a Canadian hip hop musician, and entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur, he is the founder of his record label Peanuts & Corn Recordings, an independent hip hop distributor, as well as a company specializing in the marketing and promotion of independent music in...

  • Pip Skid
    Pip Skid
    Pip Skid is a Canadian rapper and writer, and a cornerstone of the successful Vancouver based independent hip hop label Peanuts & Corn...

  • John Smith
  • Gruf the Druid
  • DJ Hunnicutt
  • Birdapres
  • Yy
    YY
    YY may refer to:* Yo-yo* YY, the call sign prefix for radio stations in Venezuela* Yakety Yak, the Coasters doo-wop song* Yakkity Yak, a Nicktoons Network show* XYY syndrome, a generic aneuploidy in which the Y chromosome is duplicated...

  • The Gallivanting Spoof
  • DJ Moves
  • Fermented Reptile (Gruf the Druid, and Wicked Nut)
  • Parklike Setting (DJ Hunnicutt, mcenroe, and John Smith)
  • Farm Fresh
    Farm Fresh
    Farm Fresh is a hip hop group from Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Made up of mcenroe, Pip Skid and DJ Hunnicutt, they released their first recording The Space EP in 1994 followed by a full length album named Crazy Friction in 1995....

     (DJ Hunnicutt, mcenroe, and Wicked Nut)
  • Break Bread (mcenroe, Pipi Skid, John Smith, Gruf, DJ Hunnicutt and Yy)

P&C Imprints and Affiliations Include

  • Camobear Records
  • Clothes Horse Records
  • First Things First
  • Foultone Records
  • Frek Sho
  • Fried Chicken Productions
  • Futility Records
  • Goodnight Musics
  • Hand'Solo Records
  • Low Pressure Productions
  • Plague Language Records
  • Sound Barrier Recordings
  • Your Brother Records
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