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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (1991 – present)
Hilltop Hoods is a hip hop group, formed in 1991, from Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Their name comes from a part of Adelaide known by all the local B-Boys as the Hilltop, where the group comes from. One day, another local rapper, Flak, from the Cross Bred Mongrels said that’s what they should call themselves, and the name stuck.
The group formed in the early 1990s when MCs Suffa and Pressure met at high school. When they later hooked up with DJ Debris through a mutual friend, the trio was complete. The group’s name refers to the Hilltop commercial precinct of O’Halloran Hill, a southern surburb of Adelaide.
They were inspired by American hip hop artists such as KRS-One, Gang Starr and Pete Rock, which encouraged them to spread this style of music to Australia as well.
The Hilltop Hoods have released seven successful recordings - Back Once Again (EP - 1997), A Matter of Time (LP - 1999), Left Foot, Right Foot (LP - 2001), The Calling (LP - 2003), The Hard Road (LP - 2006), The Hard Road: Restrung (LP-2007) and State Of The Art (LP - 2009). The Calling achieved gold status in Australia (35,000+ copies sold), the first hip-hop album to do so. Two tracks (The Nosebleed Section and Dumb Enough) received places in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2003, at 9th and 44th respectively. The Nosebleed Section also came in at number 17 in the Trible JJJ Hottest Hundred Of All Time, making it the highest ranked Australian song on the list, and the only hip-hop track to make the cut. LP The Hard Road also topped the Australian charts, another first for Australian Hip-Hop.
The group formed in the early 1990s when MCs Suffa and Pressure met at high school. When they later hooked up with DJ Debris through a mutual friend, the trio was complete. The group’s name refers to the Hilltop commercial precinct of O’Halloran Hill, a southern surburb of Adelaide.
They were inspired by American hip hop artists such as KRS-One, Gang Starr and Pete Rock, which encouraged them to spread this style of music to Australia as well.
The Hilltop Hoods have released seven successful recordings - Back Once Again (EP - 1997), A Matter of Time (LP - 1999), Left Foot, Right Foot (LP - 2001), The Calling (LP - 2003), The Hard Road (LP - 2006), The Hard Road: Restrung (LP-2007) and State Of The Art (LP - 2009). The Calling achieved gold status in Australia (35,000+ copies sold), the first hip-hop album to do so. Two tracks (The Nosebleed Section and Dumb Enough) received places in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2003, at 9th and 44th respectively. The Nosebleed Section also came in at number 17 in the Trible JJJ Hottest Hundred Of All Time, making it the highest ranked Australian song on the list, and the only hip-hop track to make the cut. LP The Hard Road also topped the Australian charts, another first for Australian Hip-Hop.
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w0bbEL wrote:
guys are fun
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markpcronin wrote:
woo the bogans of music are here!! i wonder if you can put 'rapping in a hip-hop band' in your dole diary... obviously you can!!
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theArod wrote:
@ thesexninja - yes. thank you. the 'hoods' and other similar artists are representing the percentage of our population who walk around housing commission suburbs in wu-tang clothes with rock star hats on. luckily no body internationally is even aware of their existence otherwise i'd be embarrassed for this fantastic nation to be associated with such pure, utter garbage
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markpcronin wrote:
yeah... fuck you too
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robwhalley wrote:
yeah... lamb of god rules
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markpcronin wrote:
Australian hip-hop is a disgrace. they might aswell be sitting at home on the dole. and they would be if they weren't wannabe gangsta's
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robwhalley wrote:
pretty sure I'd be proud to be an aussie due to hilltop. but whatever you say
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thesexninja wrote:
australia is embarrased by kylie minogue, as well as these guys amongst others. I am of the strong opinion that supporting this talentless shit because it is australian is unpatriotic.
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CaiUnderground wrote:
great songs! ;D
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Ninty wrote:
don't read the shit alicenroses types. She's anti-Australian and should leave the country.
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Zeman98 wrote:
Damn, I live in the middle of nowhere and still I'm hunting for Hoods' releases. Aussie sound can be heard even here. Don't think that is embarassing for Australia...
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shanterusan wrote:
Why stop at just insulting Hilltop, you know, there are a lot of other hip hop acts whose listeners need to be set straight.
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alicenroses wrote:
He's talking about the truth.
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thesexninja wrote:
talentless. these guys are not music and all australians should be embarased
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LucasLazaro wrote:
fucking genius!! speechless...
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Funkeman wrote:
Hilltops are so dope !
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sktterbrn wrote:
Ninty's got it right.
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snowblinzz wrote:
fucking great
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Ninty wrote:
State of the Art isn't that great IMO, there has been better Aussie hip hop releases this year too... The Calling > The Hard Road > State of the Art > Left Foot, Right Foot > A Matter of Time. They're still awesome live, I saw them for the fifth time tonight... But they'll never beat the first time I saw them at the BDO in '05... That gig was bloody awesome.
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L_Shinobi wrote:
Excellent
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'STILL STANDING' SINGLE OUT NOW
18 Sep 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/hilltophoods
The second single from the Number 1 Platinum album 'State of the Art' is out now Australia wide. On the single Suffa provides a remix that delivers that distinct Hilltop sound.BUY IT ON ITUNES!
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