In 2004, the Swollen Members song “Bottom Line” was featured in the videogames WWE Day of Reckoning and WWE SmackDown! vs. In the same year the songs “All Night” and “Deep End (Utah Saints Remix)” were featured in the videogame SSX3.
Production credits include Evidence from Dilated Peoples.
Monsters in the Closet was a collection of B-sides and outtakes along with three new songs, “Breathe” which featured British Columbian pop singer, Nelly Furtado. The album earned Swollen Members their second Juno Award and four MuchMusic Video Awards including best rap video, best director and best independent video.Ģ002’s Monsters in the Closet, their third release, brought official group membership for Moka Only and Rob The Viking to Swollen Members. It appealed to both underground and mainstream audiences, reaching platinum status in Canada. Featuring collaborations with artists such as Everlast, Divine Styler, and Dilated Peoples, the re-issued album received the 2001 Juno Award for Best Rap Recording.įollowing Balance, Swollen Members recorded and released Bad Dreams, released on November 13, 2001, and featuring guests such as Chali 2na of Jurassic 5, Son Doobie, Joey Chavez, and former member Moka Only. Balance received wide critical acclaim and has since sold over 47,000 copies in Canada. Their first releases were three 12″ singles on Mad Child’s record label Battleaxe Records, between the years of 19, then came the debut album Balance in 1999. Swollen Members is one of only three rap groups affiliated with Rock Steady, Others include Dilated Peoples and The Arsonists. In 1996, Mad Child and Prevail went to the B-Boy Summit in San Diego, California, where Mad Child won several rap battles and was initiated into the Rock Steady Crew. They joined together under the name Swollen Members. There he met Prevail and Moka Only, who had been working together. Having begun a solo career while living in San Francisco, California, Mad Child returned to Vancouver to work. Swollen Members was founded in the mid-1990s by Vancouverites Mad Child (Shane Bunting), Prevail (Kiley Hendriks), and Moka Only (Daniel Denton).
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