Tasman Keith is a rapper, like his dad before him, who uses his music to make sense of the history wrapped around his home and community.
In rural eastern Australia, along a winding river, is a tiny town with a hard history — and a thriving hip-hop scene. Bowraville is a"mission" — an indigenous community established in the 19th century to be deliberately segregated from the white population.before him, who uses his music to make sense of the history wrapped around his home and community.
: What role does hip-hop play in turning a place of oppression and division into a place of community and pride?: It has a role of giving us a voice in a country where we were pretty much voiceless for the longest amount of time. I think that's definitely why a lot of us turned to hip-hop, or music in general, because it was our way of speaking our opinion and changing what needs to be changed through music.
Yeah, for sure. It also speaks on how, sometimes, being born as a person of color – and indigenous – there's a pressure on you to do it for many reasons, that you kind of just get thrown into. Before you do that, it's very important to just to make sure that within, inside yourself, that you are okay to do that.
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