One of the group members, Carl Badwa, MC B became the first Canadian emcee to win a Juno Award in 1990 for the category R&B/Soul Recording of the Year.

[3] During Breaking Wreckords Radio interview with Jackson, he stated the groups name “morphed from Def Force 3 to Get Loose Crew with 2 DJ’s and 1 MC.

In 2017, featured in NOW Magazine a captioned photograph appears of Nardwuar holding a copy of the album, proclaiming it as “the first Canadian rap record, produced by The Get Loose Crew in 1988.”[11] The Toronto Free Gallery T-Dot Pioneers exhibition in March 2010 explored the history and culture of Toronto hip-hop with a display featuring the Get Loose Crew album[12] and the Juno award won by Badwa[8] under solo moniker, B-Kool with Simply Majestic.

BlogTo’s article "10 most collectible Toronto albums of all time" included the Get Loose Crew's album with an honorable mention reporting that it was the first Canadian independent rap release to achieve international sales and featured MC Shadow, the first Canadian white rapper to be recorded, making him second only to the Beastie Boys internationally.

The research project focused on tracing the development of Toronto Hip-Hop and the challenges faced by practitioners and culture industry professionals from 1985 to 2020.