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‘This water is our lifeblood’: First Nations hip-hop artist Dobby talks about his new album Warrangu: River Story. Photograph: Joel Pratley/The Guardian
“There are four elements of hip-hop music: graffiti, breakdancing, DJ and rap. We have the same things in Aboriginal cultures. Ochre is our graffiti. Our DJ is didge player, our yidaki. Our dancing is our corroboree. And our song lines are our rap music,” he says.“Hip-hop is a language, so it can be educational. It can be misogynistic, materialistic, exploitative. But it’s also a powerful resistance tool because it’s bound to our lives and it is whatever we make of it.
between agricultural misuse and the state of the river systems. This is what Dobby wants people to understand: riverbeds aren’t dry just because the world is getting hotter, but because of deliberate theft. “Irrigators hide their face, from the papers,” he raps on Matter of Time. “This our nation / Watergate investigation / Rivers taken / Look at what we facing / All the fish are dead in the Murray-Darling Basin … Nothing for cotton / it’s nickels and dimes / Nobody stopping them doing it twice.
Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning“Hip-hop is a powerful tool to remind people to see past the crap. I hope the album sparks conversation. I want to bring back the journalists, I want to see more action taken. And even if you don’t know much about what’s happening and just want to enjoy the music, I want to help people understand.
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