mcenroe (rapper)
Rod Bailey, stage name Mcenroe (stylized in all lowercase), is a Canadian rapper 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.
During the recording of Birdapres' album Nothing is Cool mcenroe took a musical as well as production part.[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]
He 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
- 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, [dead link] Archived at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b 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.[dead link] Archived at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b "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[dead link]. 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