I DEMAND AUSSIE RAP

There's an old Australian stockman lying dying
And he gets himself up onto one elbow
And he turns to his mates who are gathered around
And he says:

Watch me wallabies feed, mate
Watch me wallabies feed
They're a dangerous breed, mate
So watch me wallabies feed

All together now
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down.

Keep me cockatoo cool, Kool
Keep me cockatoo cool
Don't go away from the fool, Kool
Just keep me cockatoo cool

All together now
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down.

And take me koala back, Jack
Take me koala back
He lives somewhere out on the track, Mack
So take me koala back

All together now
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down.

Let me aboes go loose, Lou
Let me aboes go loose
They're of no further use, Lou
So let me aboes go loose

All together now
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down.

And mind me platypus duck, Bill
Mind me platypus duck
Oh, don't let him go running amuck, Bill
Just mind me platypus duck

All together now
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down.

Play your didgeridoo, Blue
Play your didgeridoo
Oh, like keep playing till I shoot through, Blue
Play your didgeridoo

All together now
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down.

Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred
Tan me hide when I'm dead
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde
And that's it hanging on the shed

All together now
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport,
Tie me Kangaroo Down.

Suddenly red blue lights
Flash us from behind
Loud voice booming
"Please step out onto the line"

Pele breathes words of comfort
Zina just hides her eyes
Policeman taps his shades
Is that a Chevy 69?

How bizarre
How bizarre
How bizarre

Oh wait, that's KIWI rap. (Or something. Never mind!)

But don't Angel City and AC/DC have rap songs, sort of??

TAKE A LONG LINE LYRICS

(Brewster-Neeson-Brewster)

He was selling postcards from a paper stand
a whiskey bottle in his withered hand
he put a finger on a photo from an old magazine
and saw himself in the shadow of his dream

They found him with his head inside a tin-pot crown
told him his feet stank and took him downtown
called him agitator, spy and thief
shut him up in solitary third degree
take a long line, reel him in

He tried to appeal to the king of might
he said "I'm just excercising my sacred right"
the king he said "You ain't got no rights
you're a madman, a traitor, get outta my sight"
take along line, reel him in

They put him aboard a well wound whirlwind
pulled out his teeth and rold him to grin
he gave them a smile, pulled out a bottle of wine
and said "I never existed, you've been wasting your time"
take a long line, reel him in

Love your mate
Don't suffocate on your own hate
Designate your love as fate
A one world state
As human freight
The number eight
A white black state
A gentle trait
The broken crate
A heavy weight
Or just too late
Like pretty Kate has sex ornate
Now devastate
Appreciate
Depreciate
Fabricate
Emulate
The truth dilate
Special date
The animal we ate
Guilt debate
The edge serrate
A better rate
The youth irate
Deliberate

Fascinate
Deviate
Reinstate
Liberate
To moderate
Recreate
Or detonate
Annihiliate
Atomic fate

Mediate
Clear the state
Activate
Now radiate
A perfect state
Food on plate
Gravitate
The Earth's own weight
Designate your love as fate
At ninety-eight we all rotate

Hallucinate
Dessegregate
Mediate
Alleviate
Try not to hate

Love your mate
Don't suffocate on your own hate
Designate your love as fate
A one world state
As human freight
The number eight
A white black state
A gentle trait
The broken crate

A heavy weight
Or just too late
Like pretty Kate has sex ornate

Now devastate
Appreciate
Depreciate
Fabricate
Emulate
The truth dilate
Special date
The animals we ate
Guilt debate
The edge serrate
A better rate
The youth irate
Deliberate
Fascinate
Deviate
Reinstate

Liberate
Liberate
Liberate
Liberate

They bust some about fish and chip shops. ahhh scallops.
aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi

except 'mediate'.

top move, mr. diamond!

octopus tentacles locking....RAP FEE VUR!

Why isn't it around so you can hear it? Just try releasing anything in Aust right now that isn't ultra-commercial. It won't get past community radio in the cities. There is an unwritten law about independent music getting no radio play without payola/favours/back scratching. Even highly publicised music struggles to break even. Record co's here are experiencing falling sales etc, same as the rest of the world, but the problem is worse as there's not a big population.

However, if Aussie hip-hop is like Aussie techno, you can probably tap into the Aussie hip-hop network by just exploring/mailing/emailing. I'm sure with a bit of effort you can get hold of all this stuff, 95% of which is on CD-R.

http://hiphop.net.au/main.html

Some of the best stuff I've heard is Aboriginal hip hop, not for its subcultural authenticity but just because the flows are really distinct and occasionally quite wacky-in-a-good-way.

You forgot Germany.

As to Australia, I second The Herd but beware, their quality control with regard what they choose to release is, shall we say, lax.

Also try Resin Dogs, whose last album Grand Theft Audio (yeah I know, bear with them) was pretty fine - proper unreconstructed bogan rhymes too.

Chris, things are not THAT bad.

*shudders*

Phew! I was worried...

BTW - I just got hold of a Melbourne hip-hop demo that actually quite good - MGM & DEZ, all Dre styled sonics, with 'More South than the Word of Mouf' shout-outs

You should check it out.

www.villageidiotrecords.com - go there.

and you know i like that sound minna, but...ptah!

on the other hand nz could never produce something as gonzoid as the avalanches, so.

http://www.ozhiphop.com

I'm not really part of the scene, but Melbourne has a growing hiphop movement with such heads as The Obese Crew (of Obese Records, a central oz hiphop record store), with MCs like Bias B, Pegasus and Soloman Klepto

If your interested in hearing some trip-hop-esque instrumentals from Melbourne, check out the top link - Polemic(me)'s site. Ozhiphop.com is a further look into aspiring producers, djs and Emcees.

http://cdbaby.com/places/5AU0?cat=8

(I was going to make a Falco joke, but he's AUSTRIA, duh.)

I've always found them to be consistent without ever doing anything really spectacular, and this album seems like more of the same. Nothing really jumped out at me much - the posse cut with Funkoars etc sounded good at least.

Haha x-post

Was that by The Herd, and does anyone have lyrics?

OK got a real good one for ya this time - 'Smash a Kangaroo' by Heaps Decent. This could only come from one country and is kind of really inspiring for me even if it isn't perfect.

http://www.myspace.com/heapsdecent

New website...

http://www.urbanaustralia.com/

Chopper with Brad Strut and Bias B:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv9QXkL4D

Macromantics, anyone?

http://www.myspace.com/macromantics

Fr.esh Recordings:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=397388088

"Centrelink believed in me when no-one else did".

What about rap about Australia? Does that count?

Bustacap:

http://soundcloud.com/bustacap/no-entry-bustacap-vs-andy

better than most

PK Crew. Stick with it past the slow intro, these guys are awesome once they get rolling:

http://www.youtube.com/porkhuntproductions

KillaQueenz & South Rakkas Crew Feat. Lady Chann - Double Up (Full length version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUrqxf2Hq_I&feature=share&list=PL88DE1DCBBE7899DE

speaking of Killaqueenz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9T-TNymeRk

amazing that this thread never became an R.A.E.D. dump

Indig Hip Hop show, Xmas edition, available as a free d/l on Mediafire. The show presents a good cross section of what's happening in Indigenous Australian hip hop at the moment.

http://www.mediafire.com/?wg0d7qm75mtb5y7

Track listing and links (courtesy of the show)

01. Yung Warriors - Just A Thought (read what they have to say in the new free ebook 'Real Talk' http://goo.gl/YkAAE)
02. Wire MC - Bring It On (more info at: http://au.myspace.com/wiremc)
03. The Swanz - Brown Skin, Black Woman (buy the album at: http://www.wowhd.com.au/CD/various-culture-music-from-black-australia/dp/171901)
04. Native Ryme - Together (read what they have to say in the new free ebook 'Real Talk' http://goo.gl/YkAAE)
05. Sneake1 - Looking For A Change (read what he has to say in the new free ebook 'Real Talk' http://goo.gl/YkAAE)
06. Yung Nooky - Clouds (read what he has to say in the new free ebook 'Real Talk' http://goo.gl/YkAAE)
07. Tribal S.U.N.S (feat Murri Boy aka Tommy Weatherill, DeeKay from Native Ryme & Fred Leone from Impossible Odds) - All My People (more info at: http://www.vibe.com.au/component/content/article/34-about-deadly-sounds/1729-February.html)
08. The Last Kinection - Burning Bridges ft. Briggs (read what they have to say in the new free ebook 'Real Talk' http://goo.gl/YkAAE)
09. Street Warriors - Novocastrians (buy their album at: http://streetwarriors.com.au/)
10. Sky'high - Look At Me Now (read what she has to say in the new free ebook 'Real Talk' http://goo.gl/YkAAE)
11. WZA - Mission Breed (buy his album 'Dreamtime' at: http://www.gadigal.org.au/kooriradio/SongList.aspx?aId=24)
12. Thumbs Up Mob - Thumbs Up From Alice Springs (more info at: http://www.jlf.org.au/alice-springs-gives-its-thumbs-up-to-healthy-tucker/)
13. Dreamtime Brothaz - Aboriginal Sound (buy the EP at: http://www.aedmusic.com.au/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=26)
14. South West Syndicate - Are You With Me Out There (more info at: http://www.vibe.com.au/conditions-of-use/item/3203-south-west-syndicate.html)
15. Impossible Odds - Look in my eyes (buy it at: https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/impossible-odds-ep/id285407613)

Curse Ov Dialect

i remember attending a rehearsal of some group that r4c3less of CoD was one of the rappers... would have been 95 or so.. it was eye opening..

straight outta canberra

An Australian rapper called 2pec racked up a large bill in a seafood restaurant, before running into the sea to avoid paying, a Queensland court has heard.

Police set off in hot pursuit on jetskis for the man, who later claimed he ran to help a friend give birth on the beach, according to local media.

His bill was over A$600 (£360, $450).

Terry Peck, who has been charged with theft and assault, later said the lobsters were overcooked.

The 33-year-old appeared in court on Monday morning after the incident at Omeros Bros restaurant in Surfers Paradise on the east coast.
He allegedly consumed two lobsters, a baby octopus, 21 vodka oyster shots and "a number of Coronas".

"Oh God! By himself?" said magistrate Joan White when she granted bail, according to ABC News.

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A restaurant representative, Mark Hunnybun, rejected the criticism of the standard of cooking, telling the network: "We pride ourselves on cooking our lobsters perfectly."

Australian media have uncovered some of Mr Peck's self-produced music, including one track entitled Ozi Ozi Ozi Oy Oy Oy.

brb gotta help a friend give birth on the beach

this is more "lol gold coast" than "lol aussie rap"

A restaurant representative, Mark Hunnybun

Mark what?

kbp otm