The Vancity video was shot on the unceded ancestral lands of the Coast Salish people, where an ongoing investigation into the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women has shown that Canada is participating in a historic and ongoing genocide of Indigenous peoples, particularly Indigenous women.

With the 100s of documentaries and docuseries episodes online, if you are ignorant of the issues that face our First Nations people, that is 100% on you, and I suggest you take some time to do the education.
Here's is just one resources about MMIWG:
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CBC Conization Road:
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APTN
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Power to the People:
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I produced and released #Vancity in 2011. I originally rapped the entire track myself, and as I met more and more amazing artists in Vancouver, I re-recorded the track with Advocate (1st verse), Myself (2nd / 4th Verse), Lexx (3rd Verse), and Jay Kin (5th Verse). Inez Point smashed the chorus, and a friend of mine, Dal, came in to lay down the chants. The song sparked my culture of collaboration, which is a big part of the #Vancouver music scene.

The track itself talks about the duplicity of Vancouver. From the richest of the rich to the poorest of the poor, you will find it all in Vancouver. The beautiful to the ugly, the privileged to the marginalized, safe and dangerous, it's all here. I hope the visuals capture this paradox. How we can have such wealth and yet such poverty, inequality, and racism always weighs on me.

The video aims to highlight the most marginalized and neglected group in Vancouver and Canada: Indigenous Women and Girls. There is an ongoing movement to bring more awareness to the genocide that is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (#MMIWG) in Canada, and we hope the visuals can be another tool to keep the public’s eye and government’s resources on this issue. Thank you to Shamentsut (Mandy) and Benita for bringing this significant issue to this video. Thanks also to the team at Fotonik Films for ensuring these scenes were handled with perfection.

I'm re-releasing this song now because sadly, Advo, at the young age of 36 passed away this year. He was an incredible person as well as a talented rapper. I loved working with him because I was genuinely a fan of him and his musical ability. I hope to release more of our previously recorded music this year so that a new generation can hear him as well. Thank you to Sheryl for bringing his memory to the video.

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Written, Produced, Mixed & Mastered by A-SLAM
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Credits (Video):
Directed by A-SLAM
Visuals shot and edited by
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Additional editing:
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Artwork:
Spirits of the Realms
Haisla Collins
Jerry Whitehead
Sharifah Marsden
Mehren Razmpoosh
Richard Shorty
Vanessa Walterson

Featuring:
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Make-up:
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#Vancity #ASLAM #MMIWG

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