Aussie rapper 360 is close to announcing the release of his new studio album, which is likely to feature collaborations with The Presets’ Julian Hamilton and Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns.
The Melbourne-based MC recently debuted a handful of new material live at the Sprung hip hop festival in Brisbane, including a new number “about racism in Australia.”
Titled ‘On A Planet No One Knows’, 360 first teased the track online back in August, but framed by a rousing speech at Brisbane’s Sprung, the rapper made the song’s message about criticising racism in Australia clear, as FasterLouder reports.
Footage of the live performance turned up online, with 360 posting the footage himself on his Facebook page over the weekend, showing him introducing ‘On A Planet No One Knows’ with a no-nonsense speech.
“There’s a lot of fucking racist cunts in this country,” begins 360, real name Matthew Colwell. “I don’t know if people are proud to admit it or not, but there is.”
The song’s rhymes – featuring 360 taking aim at bigotry in Australia – was inspired by an incident where Colwell poste a photo of himself and his “mates with different shades of skin” on his social media; the song also finds him directly criticising the ‘fuck off we’re full’ mentality during the song’s breakdown.
“If you’re someone that believes in ‘Fuck off we’re full’, you’re a fucking dickhead straight up,” Colwell tells the Sprung crowd. “No matter what colour or background we are, there are fuckheads in every single race, generalising everyone is fucking ignorant and uneducated and stupid, yeah? If you’re offended by this then you’re probably fucking racist then you should fuck off.”
As 360 puts it on his Facebook, he’s not tarring patriotic Australians – such as those with southern cross tattoos – with the same brush that racists do. “You’re allowed to be proud of where you come from but a lot of the cunts with southern cross tatts are racist, and that’s a fact,” explains the rapper in the Sprung footage.
“Enough of that shit, I don’t wanna preach anymore,” says 360 at the conclusion of the new track, set to feature on the follow-up to the award-winning Falling & Flying.
Both the performance and subsequent posts on 360’s Facebook has stoked some serious discussion, with commenters falling into both camps that support the rapper’s stance, and those vehemently opposed to it.
360 has been offering a number of clues and tidbits through his fertile social media accounts about his new album, tentatively titled Utopia.
“I have put everything into Utopia, my rapping is 10 times better, my lyrics, songwriting, singing, everything,” 360 recently tweeted, while posting a fuzzed-out image on Instagram of the album’s tracklisting, along with a forthcoming mixtape – both scheduled to drop in the coming months.
Following on from releasing videos that indicate that Julian Hamilton of The Presets would be featuring on the new album, as well as a vocal appearance from Silverchair’s Daniel Johns, 360 recently tweeted that he’d recorded a spiritual sequel to ‘Boys Like You’ collaborator Gossling.
Just did a song with the lovely @gosslingmusic ! So glad to have worked with her again on the new record
— 360 (@3ree6ixty) September 26, 2013
Read Tone Deaf’s coverage of Sprung Festival in Brisbane here and check out our photo gallery here.
