The nominees for this year's Western Canadian Music Awards (http://www.westerncanadianmusicawards.ca) were announced today:

Nominees for the 2012 WCMAs' Rap/Hip Hop Recording of the Year category:
Animal Nation – The Basement Tapes Vol.1 (http://www.everydayinthelife.com)
Cityreal & Wes Mackey – Good Morning Blues (http://www.cityrealmusic.com)
Evil Ebenezer – The Birds (http://www.evilebenezer.com)
Swollen Members – Dagger Mouth (http://www.swollenmembers.com)
ZZBRA – The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (http://www.camobeardigital.com)

Which of the nominated releases do you feel should win this year's Rap WCMA, and why?

Animal Nation!!!

I've only checked out The Evil and Swollen Members album. Going to check the rest soon. Evil's was really incredible though.

I would have thought you'd already have checked out the Cityreal & Wes Mackey album since D-Sisive is on it (and its available for "pay what you want" on his bandcamp which is linked from his website), and the Animal Nation project since it was an Urbnet release. Regardless I'm glad you're going to check out the rest of the projects you haven't heard yet as a result of the nominations, they are all definitely worth the time...

easy


Krafty

If anybody's interested - you can listen to the entire Animal Nation album on a youtube stream at -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZuzqAQ3LJo


I've only heard that one, and the City Real one which is an awesome album.
I'm gonna go check out all the other albums right now as well.

Swollen members baby!!

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