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Five women to watch (and listen to) in Australian hip hop

  • Written by GJ Breyley, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University
Sampa the Great won the Australian Music Prize this year but until recently, few women in hip hop were acclaimed here. Valerie Maciver PR/AAP

Sampa the Great (Sampa Tembo), a hip hop artist, poet and singer-songwriter, won the Australian Music Prize this year. She was the first female hip hop artist to do so, despite the fact that Australian women...

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