"Crabbuckit" is a single by Canadian hip hop musician

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, released in 2004 as the first single from his album ''

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'', and is the fourth track on the album. The title and work refers to the crab in the bucket syndrome where a group of crabs will pull down any crab that tries to escape, thereby ensuring their collective demise. The song won the

Juno Award for Single of the Year The Juno Award for Single of the Year has been awarded since 1974 for the best single in Canada. It has also been known as Best Single and Best Selling Single. The award goes to the artist. Best Single (1974) Best Selling Single (1975 - 1979 ...

at the

Juno Awards of 2005 The Juno Awards of 2005 were held 3 April at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba and were hosted by comedian Brent Butt. Avril Lavigne and k-os won three awards each, while Billy Talent and Feist won 2 apiece. Nominations were announced 7 Febr ...

, and was the first hip hop song ever to win the Juno in that category.

Music video

k-os walks down streets in Toronto, wearing sunglasses that allow him to see individual people who are crabs in disguise and he performs in a club. Both

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and Red1 (from

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) make a brief cameo appearance in the music video. Nelly Furtado can be seen playing guitar in front of a house block and Red1 can be seen in the bar sitting beside k-os.

Chart performance

The single reached number 23 on the ''

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''. The video also made No. 1 on the

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for two weeks in 2004. The song was also named the 37th greatest Canadian song of all time in the 2005

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series '' 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version''.

Peak chart positions

Covers

The song was covered by Canadian folk/country trio The Good Lovelies on their 2011 album ''Let the Rain Fall''. It was covered by the Canadian a capella quartet Cadence on their 2018 album "Home".

References

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