Over on the RRR site Top Billin’ has posted their Top 10 Australian Hip Hop music videos for 2009, i’d swap some for others as you’d expect but that’s not to say his choices are any less valid, you should support all those artists.  Not sure if this just Sheriff Rosco’s Top 10 or what? guys?

Checking it out i got stuck in a YouTube Blackhole, searching and collating. Before i knew i had a YouTube playlist of all the Aussie Hip Hop  music videos i could find that’d been released this year, i started wondering what to do with it.  The first choice is obvious, a poll to see which is the best aussie hip hop music video from 2009, what comes next i’m still not sure.  I think over the course of the year i might sticky post the Top 10 videos on the site, 1 each month and the winner take the title of “Voted #1 Music Video 2009 @ Rhythm  & Poetry”.

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The Thundamentals heat up the digital distribution space being what I believe is the first Australian Hip Hop artist/group to put up an iTunes Live release (correct me in the comments if i’m wrong).  The 6 track release can be purchased from the iTunes Music Store for a little over $10 AUD and i assume will be an exclusive to iTunes release, like the rest of the iTunes Live content.

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If you managed to miss this when it screened on JTV, you can catch it now on YouTube thanks to user MrJimBob2707.  Urthboy, El Gusto (hermitude) & Jane Tyrrell present a cover of The Clash’s song London Calling.

This post, while not hip hop related is going to be helpful to all those managers and other music industry representitives out there reading this site (i know you’re out there!).  If you’ve got an iPhone and it seems like all you do is try to find contacts for Artists or labels, this is the must have application for you.

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In preparation for the new album, The Out of Money Experience (due out March 2010) The Optimen are offering up a free single titled Fire Fighter which is off their forthcoming new album.  If Fire Fighters is anything to go by, i’m sure it’s safe to say 2010 is going to be a big year for Brisbane’s The Optimen. Read the rest of this entry…

Round 2 of Allaussie Hip Hop Blog‘s monthly cooking has taken to the stage, with the announcement of the first round due this Friday.  Horrorshow‘s man of the beats, the producer Adit has given up his recipe for Nepali Dumplings and giving you the chance to win tickets to their upcoming national Inside Story Tour, so get your arse over to All Aussie Hip Hop Blog and learn to cook and take your chance for free entry into a Horroshow show in your closest city.

All you have to do to enter the comp is tell the guys at All Aussie Hip Hop Blog your top 3 songs off the album Inside Story, so get over there now and enter.

The Hilltop Hoods drop the next video clip from their recent album State of The Art, The Light You Burned feat. Trials.  The video clip features a very sweet cartoon style that seems to be an evolution of what was used in the video for Clown Prince.  According to the lads Facebook posts, this animated clip was inspired by cartoons of old, especially the works of Hanna-Barbera. It’ll take you back to a time when cartoons were an artform, drawing inspiration from the likes of The Jetsons, Magilla Gorilla and The Flintstones.

You can grab the Hilltop Hoods latest album State of The Art from iTunes now, also available is the Still Standing EP, which contains instrumentals and remixes of Still Standing.

Melbourne MC Class A drops a video for the track titled Fitzroy off her forthcoming EP ‘Me me me me and him- The Secret Life of a Receptionist’.  This track is produced by Akouo, with other tracks on the EP being produced by BVA, Urban Monk, Doc Felix and M-Phazes.

You can check out the track by M-Phazes, titled So Bad over at Class A’s MySpace now also other tracks will be previewed on MySpace over the next few months leading up to the release of the EP, so stay tuned.