Adam Stevens, better known by the stage name Bias B, 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 ...

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 500 copies. In 1999, Bias B released an album called '' Boney & Stoney'' along with fellow crew members Len One and Lazy Grey. His third album in 2007 sold out its first 3000 copies in less than two weeks. Bias B worked at Obese Records and hosted two radio shows with Stewbakka on PBS FM (The Formula) & RRR-FM (Wordburner).

Stage name

Bias B described to the ''Cairns Post'' the origin of his stage name:

"The name 'Bias' didn't come from prejudicial attitudes, it came from the frequency on a cassette tape. Bias is the inaudible, high-frequency tone mixed with the input signal that passes through the recording head to excite tape particles, preparing it to record effectively."

Discography

Bias B

* ''Beezwax'' - Wild Child Productions (1998) * ''Hip Hop Life'' EP -

Obese Records Obese Records was a record label that released music from the Australian hip hop genre. It was the largest Australian independent hip hop label, including performers Pegz, Thundamentals and Dialectrix. Obese Records also operated two retail st ...

(2001) * ''In Bed With Bias'' - Wordburner (2003) * ''Been There, Done That'' - Obese Records (2007) * ''Beemixes'' - Wordburner Entertainment (2007)Planet Urban
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* ''Aerosol Era'' - Wordburner Entertainment (2009) * ''Baccapellas'' - Wordburner Entertainment (2010) * ''Biaslife'' - Wordburner Entertainment (2011) * ''Back Burners'' - Wordburner Entertainment (2018)

Boney & Stoney

* ''Boney & Stoney'' - Wild Child Productions/Blackstump (1999)

References

{{Authority control 1974 births Living people Australian hip hop musicians Musicians from Melbourne Obese Records artists