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Also known as Omar bin Musa

Australian singer

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
AU
Active from
1984-01-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
915
Total plays
8,526

Tags

poetHip-HopQueanbeyan

Sharp and poetic, Australian hip-hop has a confident new voice. Omar Musa, 2008 Australian Poetry Slam champion, releases his debut The Massive EP. From his poignant thoughts on big city life in “Hemingway” to the languid summer jam “Opal”, The Massive EP marries hip-hop, rock and funk. After winning the Triple J sponsored Realise Your Dream competition, he relocated to London to work in the music industry, collaborate with British rappers such as grime star Akala, and pen the beginnings of his

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Quotes

  • We try to portray ourselves as a very egalitarian society, the land of the fair go…But I think that we are quite segregated. And class exists in Australia – it’s much more slippery and hard to get your hands on than in other places where it’s more structured and stratified. But it’s there.
  • I’ve always grown up as an in-betweener…Malaysian hyphen Australian, between really a working-class town, ‘struggle town’, and a really privileged private school, between secular and religious – even Queanbeyan is known as part city, part country.
  • I think Australia’s sense of itself is very insecure, very shaky. And what I see around us is constant simmering tension and some kind of violence beneath the surface of this country.

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