Dirty Circus

Dirty Circus is a Canadian hip hop group, initially consisting of Metty the DertMerchant, Mos Eisley, and DJ Itchy Ron of the music collective Sweatshop Union.^[1]

Metty, Eisley, and DJ Itchy Ron began performing on the local hip hop scene in their hometown of Vancouver in the year 2000.^{[citation needed]} They collaborated with Pigeon Hole (then known as "Creative Minds"), among others, to self-publish their first album "Wildlife Canada". In 2005 they released their second album "Over Easy" featuring more local hip-hop artists. A year later they would also end up re-issuing their "Over Easy" album as "Over Easy V.2".

They later formed Sweatshop Union with Pigeon Hole and other local Vancouver hip-hop artists that they had collaborated with in the past.^{[citation needed]}

Dirty Circus released their first album as a duo (without DJ Itchy Ron), Alive and Well, in 2010 on URBNET Records.^[2][3] As well as the two main rappers, the album features a number of guest musicians.^[4] The album's lead single, "Into the Sun", features contributions from Geo of Blue Scholars and Shad. Others on the album include Bootie Brown, Chin Injeti, Rhettmatic and Rob the Viking.^[2]

Alive and Well appeared on the EarShot campus and community radio hip hop chart in July and August that year.^[5] It was one of three albums released on the same day by side projects of Sweatshop Union, alongside Pigeon Hole's Age Like Astronauts and Trillionaire$' By Hook or by Crook.^[2]

• Wildlife Canada (2000)
• Over Easy (2005)
• Over Easy V.2 (2006)
• Alive and Well (2010)^[6]

• Dirty Circus on Myspace