There are few things as exciting in life as the rush of pride you feel when you're favourite rapper shouts-out your hometown, and/or country of birth. Actually, I can think of hundreds of things more thrilling than hearing the word 'Australia' muttered over a drum break, but it's still vaguely amusing. Right? Anyways, here are 15 examples of rap songs that reference the nation which gave the world Yahoo Serious.
Immortal Technique "Reverse Pimpology"
A$AP Rocky "Jukebox Joints"
'It's not just model bitches on my genitalia/Did Azalea's from Australia, trips to Venezuela.'
This line works since it's both factually accurate and uses Iggy's name as a noun for random white chicks at the same time. Well played, sir.
Cypress Hill "No Rest For The Wicked"
Westside Connection "King Of The Hill"
'As I stick it like King Kong and play ping pong/with this fake ass Cheech and Chong/Did you tell ya momma that I had to help ya/when Sen Dog left your bitch ass in Australia?'
Cube replied to "No Rest For The Wicked" by stating that 'B-Real sounding like he got baby nuts,' calling them 'hip-hop hippies' and countering the line about how he shaved his head to copy him by reminding the Cypress Hill front-man that he helped out on stage when Sen Dog had to leave an Australian tour early. Hardly "No Vaseline", was it?
Curren$y feat. Corner Boy P, Fiend and Smoke DZA "The Usual Suspects"
'From Australia up to Montauk, I kill 'em with the don talk/And when it comes to this indie bread, I'm the hip-hop Thom Yorke.'
Bonus points to DZA for name-dropping the lead singer of Radiohead of instead of another hackneyed Coldplay reference, although a Bon Scott mention would have been more appropriate to tie it all together.
F.T. - "Southpaw Cypher"
F.T. - "Southpaw Cypher"
'Southpaw Cypher' - Shabaam Sahdeeq, El Gant, FaMo$o, Nutso, F.T., Bekay, Dov, Flo, 151 Proof & Climax/ In the lab developin' flows that's elegant/Eatin' like a polar bear, shittin' like an elephant/Now I get to smoke my bud instead of sellin' it/out in Australia at the beach pettin' pelicans'
Redman "Back Inda Building"
Lupe Fiasco "Girls"
Cam'Ron "Leave Me Alone, Pt. 2"
Elzhi feat. Phat Kat "Yeah"
JJ Doom "Rhymin' Slang"
'Chip in the head, MCs is bought and sold/Their rhymes ain't worth the weight it cost to gold hold/It's like a thin chain from here to Brisbane/Y'all shall not print his name in vain, rep the insane.'
Fun fact: MF Doom borrowed an M-Box from Brisbane's Len-One (his manager picking it up from Len's 77 year old mother-in-law) to lay down some tracks while he was touring in 2012, before chowing down for a BBQ lunch with local rapper dude Simplex. This explains why Dumile chose to shout-out/mispronounce Brisvegas on the song in question for his project with Janeiro Janel.
Souls Of Mischief "Tour Stories"
7L & Esoteric "Restrospect"
Mathematics feat. GZA, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Cappadonna & Masta Killa "Wu Banga" [Remix]
'Australia - Ghost, Mount Everest, cactus heads/Raid the desert, clench a camel thirst - Polish Spring beverage'
The remix of this posse cut from Ghostface Killah's Supreme Clientele album (found on Mathematics' Wu-Tang Clan and Friends Unreleased) features what are either new lyrics at the end of Ironman's verse or just restores the section that was trimmed from the original session. Either way, this is vintage Tony Starks non-sequitur brilliance.