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Take Me Home (feat. Gurrumul)

[Verse 1: Briggs] You can't contain my authority, restrain the minority Take the head, everybody, and follow me From a long line of leaders and warriors I paved a path through the face of intolerance

[Verse 2: Trials] Through the face of a colonist, half-arsed apologist Celebrating death on Australia Day More they making a change, more they staying the same In a blink watch an officer turn into a coroner

[Verse 3: Briggs & Trials] You ain't got the balls to walk these corridors Gripped with claws in Namorrodor's jaws "Everything's getting hairy," no doubt, brother And if things don't change, somebody's getting buried

[Chorus: Briggs & Trials] You wanna take this home? (Yeah) Where it at though? I don't know Where it at though? I don't know They put a bed in a cell and they call that home You wanna take this home? (Yeah) Where it at though? I don't know Where it at though? I don't know And when I find that, leave it all behind and then I go

[Verse 4: Trials] Yeah, I stay clever to the man Hip to the game, watch them reclaim Saw them speak up, watch them detained Again, again, again, again

[Verse 5: Briggs] They claim brotherhood, but never act how a brother would Put it on my name, we ain't the same, get it understood And pass the nulla nulla to the other fulla

[Verse 6: Trials] See, love is good, but love is blind You got pride in what, son? Leaving kids behind until they die and the rest getting locked up? Nah, we making change, no question Call myself Trials 'cause my people don't get them

[Bridge: Briggs & Trials] Take me home Take me home, where I live Where I love, where I fight, where I feel Take me home, where I live Where I love, where I fight, where I feel Take me home, where I live Where I love, where I fight, where I feel Take me home, where I live Where I love, where I fight, where I feel Take me home, where I live Where I love, where I fight, where I feel Take me home (Yo, Cleverman)

[Chorus: Briggs & Trials] You wanna take this home? Where it at though? I don't know Where it at though? I don't know They put a bed in a cell and they call that home You wanna take this home? Where it at though? I don't know Where it at though? I don't know And when I find that, leave it all behind and then I go

You should really listen to this. Best hiphop act I’ve heard in a hell of a long time - A.B. Original - spittin’ some real shit with Paul Kelly...reworking his classic track Dumb Things.  One of the best collabs I’ve ever heard, and probably my favourite track of 2017.

Welcome strangers to the show I'm the one who should be lying low Saw the knives out, turned my back Heard the train coming, stayed right on that track In the middle, in the middle In the middle of a dream I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings I've done all the dumb things Yeah, them dumb things This goin' out to all my brothers down there in Don Dale Dealin' with that disaster that them guards are there and not jail Thinking we gettin' our welfare, huh? Thinking we gettin' our healthcare, huh? Think about if it was your son, now think about sending some help there, yeah What's dumber than that mate? What's dumber than dressing up blackface? What's dumber than doing it knowing it hurts and don't even work to make that change Let's go In the middle, in the middle In the middle of a dream I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings I've done all the dumb things We got We got islands for the ones who seekin' asylum We got silence for the ones who died in confinement If you're complacent to the words of a racist Don't you dare complain when that's what leading your nation Send in the clowns, they're blackfacing They're locking up couples, they're locking up brothers, but they ain't leavin' the station The date's changin' In the middle, in the middle In the middle of a dream I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings I've done all the dumb things Yeah, them dumb things Lumped in, looking for peace, but won't find it They holdin' us back from closing the gap by keeping them close minded See, no surprises there, hearing both of them sirens blare Them coppers where I'm from are kind of fair, if you kinda fair

ARIA Award Noms For 2017

The full list of nominees for the 2017 ARIA Awards has been unveiled, with big names such as Tash Sultana, Amy Shark, Sia, Illy and AB Original scoring multiple nods. Gang Of Youths and Paul Kelly led the pack this year, scoring eight and seven nominations respectively. The 2017 ARIAs will be held at The Star in Sydney on 28 November and televised live. Check out all the categories and nominees…

2017 Sprung Hip-Hop Festival Line-Up Announced

The Queensland-based Sprung Hip-Hop Festival has returned in 2017 with a huge line-up announced today via Triple J, following a 4-year break in which Australia was left without a major Hip-Hop festival. (more…)

New vinyl from A.B. Original - 2 Black 2 Strong 7″.

The new single from A.B. Original (Briggs & Trials) ‘January 26 feat. Dan Sultan’ is out now!

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