Redfern Records

It has been assumed by progressive Australians that there would be Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander representation in the mainstream Hip Hop and R&B music industry. Redfern Records has received the endorsement by the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander community of Australia, thus certifying that a strong collective approval for its activities exists amongst the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander community. With the backing of the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander community of Australia, Redfern Records confidently anticipates providing world-class National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Hip Hop and R&B awards night showcase.

Purpose

To establish the celebration of Urban Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Culture through the National Bump Hip Hop and R&B Awards being held in a major city every year. It is one of the main objectives of the National Bump Hip Hop and R&B Awards to promote and provide mainstream Australia with an understanding of Urban Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander history and culture. To provide the Indigenous Hip Hop and R& B community of Sydney and Australia the opportunity to demonstrate to Mainstream Australia that we are here. Through the establishment of the National Bump Hip Hop and R&B Awards encouraging a more active life for younger Aboriginal children through music and dance and also provide the younger Generation with Aboriginal role models and the music leaders of tomorrow that they can relate to.

Why Have a National Awards Acknowledging Indigenous Hip Hop & RnB?

Why you say???

Hip Hop & RnB has been a vehicle for Indigenous people to express themselves, just like other black cultures across the world.

In a sense, Indigenous Australian Hip Hop & RnB can be understood as a musical conversation between Indigenous Australian people, the wider Australian nation and the world. Hip hop & RnB is a powerful vehicle for the expression of identity and resistance in contemporary Aboriginal popular music.

Hip Hop & RnB to many Indigneous Artists has political significance. It creates an avenue, which enables Aboriginal Australians to be seen and most importantly heard in this modern society and world, to be politically present, in a way which has in the past been denied to us by the conditions imposed by the colonisation of our people.

Hip Hop & RnB functions as a vehicle for the performance of Aboriginal culture. Aboriginal culture is orally and visually passed down, our traditions, our values and our lores are taught through, song, dance and music, and one of the main principal elements of Hip Hop & RnB in this respect, is its orality, its emphasis on storytelling. So its not suprsing that our people would strongly identify with Hip Hop & Rnb. There isn’t one Aboriginal kid today who doesn’t like these genres because it’s that oral communication that we’re so used to over the thousands and thousands of years.

This is why we have created the National Indigenous Hip Hop & RnB BUMP Music Awards, to ackknowledge both the pioneers of the Indigenous Hip hop & RnB movement and the up and coming new artists and groups and Indigenous People in all fields of the Music Industry who are assisting our people get into main stream and helping our people's voices and our talent be seen and heard.

The Evolution of Indigenous Hip Hop & RnB has now become a REVOLUTION!