Brothers Stoney is an
Australian hip hop
Australian hip hop traces its origins to the early 1980s and is largely inspired by hip hop and other urban musical genres from the United States. As the form matured, Australian hip hop has become a commercially viable style of music which i ...
group hailing from
Brisbane
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,
Queensland
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. The crew comprises
emcees Lazy Grey and Len One. Both Lazy Grey and Len One are members of the Brisbane hip hop crew, 750 Rebels.
History
Boney & Stoney
Lazy Grey and Len One, along with Melbourne MC
Bias B
Adam Stevens, better known by the stage name Bias B, is an Australian hip hop artist. He started writing lyrics in 1989 and began performing in 1991 and released his first album, ''Beezwax'', in 1998. The album took two years to sell its first 50 ...
,
were in a crew called Boney & Stoney. Boney & Stoney released a self-titled EP in 1999,
which has become known as one of the top pioneering releases of Australian hip hop. It was rated as the number 1 Australian hip hop 12" record by Melbourne-based DJ/producer Doc Felix.
The group reformed for individual performances in more recent years, including a show in
Perth
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in December 2010 and at a gig forming part of the
Robert Hunter Cup
Robert Alan Hunter (1 October 1975 – 20 October 2011), better known as Hunter or Huntz, was an Australian rapper and hip hop artist. He was a founder of Perth's hip hop scene in the 1990s and a member of the MC collective Syllabolix (SBX) ...
in
Melbourne
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in October 2012 in memory of MC Hunter.
Brothers Stoney
Brothers Stoney have played at Livid Festival (2001),
Good Vibrations Festival (2004)
and performed alongside artists such as
Native Ryme Syndicate (2001).
Brothers Stoney have had airplay on Australian radio programs and stations such as national broadcaster
Triple J
Triple J (stylised in all lowercase) is a government-funded, national Australian Radio in Australia, radio station intended to appeal to listeners of alternative music, which began broadcasting in January 1975. The station also places a greate ...
,
Melbourne station
3RRR
3RRR (pronounced "Three Triple R", or simply "Triple R") is an Australian community radio station, based in Melbourne.
3RRR first commenced broadcasting in 1976 from the studios of 3ST, the student radio station of the Royal Melbourne Institut ...
,
and Brisbane station
4ZZZ
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.
Lazy Grey
Lazy Grey was in a Brisbane band called ''Towering Inferno'' with
DJ Damage and B-Boy Flex in 1994–1997.
The group performed at the first ''B-Boy Kingdom'' hip hop jam in 1996.
Lazy Grey has collaborated with artists such as Brisbane band,
Resin Dogs
Resin Dogs is an Australian hip hop group, formed in Brisbane, Queensland in 1996. Resin Dogs are a loose collective, a cut and paste sample band who use live drums, live bass, and elements of hip hop via turntables and samplers to create all f ...
(Hi Fidelity Dirt album, 2003),
Bias B,
Brad Strut
Brad Strut is an Australian hip hop emcee and singer based in Melbourne. Strut has performed and released material as a solo artist, and is also a member of hip hop group Lyrical Commission.
Biography
Brad Strut was born in Yarrawonga in the Vi ...
, Pegz, Tornts. Lazy Grey's musical style has been described as ''Ocker hip hop'' by Tony Mitchell in his paper "The Reography of Reason: Australian Hip Hop as Experimental History and Pedagogy":
"'Ocker' hip hop is mainly Anglo-Australian, insists on using a broad Australian accent, with frequent swearing and recourse to Australian slang, decries MCs who rap with an American accent as 'wack' (ridiculous) and often celebrates aspects of Anglo-Australian working class culture
Working-class culture is a range of cultures created by or popular among working-class people. The cultures can be contrasted with high culture and folk culture, and are often equated with popular culture and low culture (the counterpart of high ...
like barbecues, sport and pubs. Prominent exponents include the Hilltop Hoods, Brisbane’s Lazy Grey and Perth-based 'femcee' Layla."
OzHipHop.com's hip hop music reviewer, gerling in her review of Lazy Grey's ''The Soundtrack'' album, noted that,
"Lazy Grey has lost none of his frustrated verbal elegance, and with 'The Soundtrack' he proves that he is one of Oz hip hop's pre-eminent MCs. His diction is crisp, his flow is effortless and he can still write intricate, clever rhymes".
Discography
Albums
Boney & Stoney
Boney & Stoney (1999)
Brothers Stoney
Stone Broke (2003)
Tappin Buttons (Instrumentals) (2004)
Lazy Grey
On Tap (with Len-one) (Cassette only) (1997)
On or Off Tap (1998)
[
Banned in Queensland (2004)]
Len-one (AKA Lenwun)
Begged, Borrowed or Stolen (2006) (with DJ DCE)
References
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Australian hip hop groups