Hilltop Hoods

   
Artist: Hilltop Hoods

   Genre(s): 
Hip-Hop
   Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 Hard Road: Restrung

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 14


   
 The Calling

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 17


   
 Left Foot, Right Foot

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 18

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Australian hip-hop outfit the Hilltop Hoods formed in Adelaide in 1993. MCs Suffa and Pressure met as classmates at Blackwood High School, recruiting DJ Next through a reciprocal admirer. While inspired by American conscious tap icons like Public Enemy and KRS-One, the Hilltop Hoods took their identify from the Hilltop, the sobriquet disposed the suburban area where Suffa and Pressure were brocaded, and rapped in all-embracing Aussie accents; their debut EP, Back Once Again, appeared in 1997, and 2 years later the trio issued their first full-length endeavor, A Matter of Time. Upon complemental the album, DJ Next resettled to Sydney, and with the addition of DJ Debris, the Hilltop Hoods recorded 2001's Left Foot, Right Foot. Its 2003 followup, The Calling, was the group's commercial breakthrough, becoming the first Australian hip-hop LP to accomplish gold status. With 2006's chart-topping The Hard Road, the Hilltop Hoods likewise jagged their number 1 Australian Top 40 hit single, "Goofball Prince."





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