CBC, APTN quietly cancel planned comedy about Indigenous rap duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids – CityNews

Apr 30, 2025

Indigenous hip-hop duo the Snotty Nose Rez Kids say they don’t know why CBC and APTN have quietly cancelled plans for a comedy series about their rise to fame.

Originally slated to premiere this year, the half-hour scripted show was billed as the “not even true, real life story” of how Quinton (Yung Trybez) Nyce and Darren (Young D) Metz found their way from Kitamaat Village to award stages and music critics’ best-of lists.

“Unfortunately, we simply don’t really know what happened here. We felt the show was in a good place,” Nyce and Metz said Wednesday in a joint statement.

“We had a great team put together and good scripts, and we were taken aback by CBC’s decision not to move ahead.

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