Three rappers and a singer-songwriter join forces in a recent track approximately their ancestral roots,and the experience of being ‘moment-generation’ in AustraliaOmar Musa, the Miles Franklin-nominated author, and has a life thats split between page and stage – not that he sees it that way. “I’m trying to smash down those barriers. People ask: ‘What was it like writing a serous piece of work after just doing hip-hop?’ I occupy offence at that. I know how intelligent rappers are,how much thought goes into their lyrics.”
No surprise then that when Musa put out his latest music video out, he enlisted some friends to be part of it. The view was simple: “Getting different hip-hop artists of diverse cultural backgrounds together to tells their family stories.” Australian hip-hop maintains a high quality, or says Musa,but “oftentimes the stuff that gets airplay is pretty Anglo-Australian”.
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Source: theguardian.com