Team Rezofficial
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Team Rezofficial are a Canadian aboriginal
Aboriginal peoples in Canada
Aboriginal peoples in Canada comprise the First Nations, Inuit and Métis. The descriptors "Indian" and "Eskimo" have fallen into disuse in Canada and are commonly considered pejorative....

 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...

 group (primarily Cree
Cree
The Cree are one of the largest groups of First Nations / Native Americans in North America, with 200,000 members living in Canada. In Canada, the major proportion of Cree live north and west of Lake Superior, in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories, although...

 from First Nations
First Nations
First Nations is a term that collectively refers to various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 630 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. The...

 surrounding Hobbema
Hobbema
Hobbema may refer to:* Hobbema, Alberta, a hamlet* Meindert Hobbema, a landscape painter...

, Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

). Founded by former members of War Party
War Party (band)
War Party is an award-winning Cree hip-hop group from Hobbema, Alberta.Founded in 1995 by Rex Smallboy, the group won the Canadian Aboriginal Music Award for Best Rap Album in 2001, and was nominated again in 2002 and 2003...

, the group includes musicians Hellnback, Drezus, Jay Mak, Big Stomp and Tomaslav Miradovic, and was formed in 2003.

Their first album The Foundation won the Canadian Aboriginal Music Award (CAMA) for Best Rap / Hip-Hop album in 2004. In 2005 the group was nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award and in 2007 they were nominted for a Aboriginal Peoples' Choice Award and another CAMA.

In 2009 the group released their second album The World (And Everything in It). The album's first single, "Lonely", became the first ever song from an aboriginal group to enter the Top 10 on Much Music's RapCity and then to go to number one.
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