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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So alot of us knew Bliss N Eso are popular, but just how popular maybe just reared it’s head.  The original release of Bliss N Eso’s Flying Colours album has gone gold, for those out of the loop this means the lads have sold over 500,000 units.  That’s alot of CD’s and is a true testament to  the Bliss N Eso team’s hard work.

On the weekend of the release of their highly anticipated Flying Colours Live deluxe edition, the original version of the Sydney trio’s hugely acclaimed third album has gone GOLD after 58 weeks in the ARIA charts.

Hats off to Bliss, Eso & Izm for their new achievement and we hope it’s a sign of bigger and better things to come for Australian Hip Hop.  You can grab Flying Colours w/ bonus tracks from iTunes (which includes On Tour) or grab On Tour seperately here.

You can read the official word here

Illusive artist’s Bliss N Eso have been nominated twice  for the 2009 APRA Urban Work of The Year.  You can check out all the details over here if you want to check the offical documentation.  Both Woodstock 2008 and The Sea Is Rising have been nominated and just quietly, i think they could have this one in the bag.

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On Thursday May 7th the West Australian Music Industry held it’s annual awards night for 2009, with west australian hip-hop’s finest Downsyde & Drapht being nominated for a few awards.  WA hip-hop artists Downsyde were nominated for 2 categories in in Most Popular Music Video, which they won and Best Urban/Hip Hop Act where they were beaten by SBX bedfellow Drapht.  Drapht was also nominated for Most Popular Single/EP with his single Jimmy Recard in which he was beaten by Tame Impala (who “make psychedelic hypno-groove melodic rock music” and also won some other awards).

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