It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop

Music generates sub cultures trespassing age, gender, and ethnicity to gather together people all dubbing their heads to the same beat. Hip-hop, with all of its flows and rhymes has cultivated a style of gold chains, graphic tees, and of course the speedy outpour of lyrics.

The 1970’s saw angst driven teens in the Bronx populate before outdoor speakers to express themselves in the new form of the spoken word. Gangsta-rap initiated talk about drugs, sexualisation, and hard life grit in the 90’s as it refurbished boys Shawn Corey Carter and Curtis James into multi-millionaires. In the 2010’s it’s ‘flown around the world twice’ as new kids like Justice & Kaos throw out rhymes with slap stick lyrics, heavy beats, and a DIY attitude that has garnared them thousands of fans from not only Australia, where they are from, but also a budding fanbase in the states from Chicago to New York. 

On a Saturday evening the hipster dive, the Laundry Room, headlined the duo.  Falling into the buzz and stimulation Justice & Kaos bring to a room, I readied my body to bounce to the beats.

 With a steady flow of lyrics that apparently all the raised hands knew, the duo romped around the stage seamlessly jumping from track to track all while making it a little personal with a few jokes on the mic.

Admirably, each verse was posed with a rush of adrenaline and they paid homage to all that hip-hop was and is. 

"Yo, I’m out of my head son clinically insane. In a different lane, I don’t fit into the frame. I can change the world...a revolution trickling through my veins.”

If only the cute boys partitioned a real revolution or posed a radical new feature to the beats of the hip-hop scene...I think I would have left the scene dazed and hooked like the groupies of old school days...

Because, isn’t something ‘new’ and radical what we’re all searching for in music these days...

What the shining boys of Austrlia’s Rap Scene did bring was a true skill of rhyming, good beats, and an adrenaline rushed show outshining the other rapping kids that went before them. And, judging from the packed crowd all driving their lips and heads to the beats...Justice & Kaos are on the cusp of creating their own culture in Aussie Hip Hop. Or perhaps they already have...