Editing Juno Awards (section)

===Rascalz===
In 1998, the [[Rascalz]] album ''[[Cash Crop (album)|Cash Crop]]'' was nominated for [[Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year|Best Rap Recording]]. Due to [[Canadian hip hop]]'s limited commercial notability, the rap award had never been presented during the main Juno ceremony, instead being relegated to the non-televised technical awards ceremony during the previous evening.

This fact had previously been criticized for creating a barrier to the commercial visibility of Canadian hip hop. Rascalz, however, alleged that [[racism]] was a factor in the award's disadvantageous scheduling, and became the first Canadian hip hop group to explicitly ''decline'' the award on that basis.<ref name="citizen">[http://www.octopusmediaink.com/CitizenHipHop.html "Kinder, gentler rap, eh? Canadians hip-hop onto centre stage"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022104623/http://www.octopusmediaink.com/CitizenHipHop.html |date=22 October 2008 }}, ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'', March 7, 1999.</ref>

Their move sparked considerable media debate about the state of Canadian hip hop. As a result of the controversy, the Juno Awards moved the rap category to the main ceremony the following year.