Latest Release
- 15 JUNE 2023
- 1 Song
- Laced Up - Single · 2023
- Drinking from the Sun (Deluxe Version) · 2011
- The Nosebleed Section - Single · 2003
- The Great Expanse · 2019
- Walking Under Stars · 2014
- Drinking from the Sun, Walking Under Stars Restrung · 2016
- The Great Expanse · 2019
- State of the Art (Bonus Edition) · 2009
- The Highlights · 2009
- I'm Good? - Single · 2020
Essential Albums
- Hilltop Hoods’ fifth album is a testament to perseverance. By 2009 the Adelaide trio had established themselves as one of Australia’s premier hip-hop acts yet were still to receive commercial radio play, something that finally changed with the single “Chase That Feeling”. The song “Fifty in Five” was also the product of persistence—utilising a sample from a 1960 song called “Twenty Ten”, which pondered what the world would be like in that year, MC Suffa spent three months writing the answer, penning lyrics that break down the events of 1960 to 2010. A harder, darker album than 2006 predecessor The Hard Road, moments of braggadocio (“Super Official”) are balanced by more philosophical songs, with MC Pressure writing “Last Confession” for his son, and “She’s So Ugly” airing the trio’s frustration with the state of hip-hop. Other tracks draw on pop culture for inspiration: “Chris Farley” is an ode to the American comedian. If the three-year gap between State of the Art and The Hard Road had some wondering if the Hoods still had it, the trio scoff at such concerns in “The Return”: “You spit like Bon Jovi/We spit like Bon Scott/We got it on lock, deadlock, non-stop”.
Albums
Artist Playlists
- Sit back, enjoy the sunshine and dive into the hip-hop trio’s weekend playlist.
- The classic MCs behind the Hoods' sound.
Compilations
About Hilltop Hoods
Formed in suburban Adelaide in the early '90s while its members were still in high school, Hilltop Hoods went on to become one of the most successful rap groups in Australia, bringing hip-hop to a country where rock still reigned. Influenced by the reflective, jazz-oriented sound of mid-’90s New York boom bap, the group—Suffa, Pressure and DJ Debris—quickly grew into its own, breaking out with 2003’s The Calling, which vaulted them from underground curiosity to national renown. Standard MC-boasting aside, the trio’s sound—friendly, lived-in—tends to eschew the high life for the simple one: Take early hit “The Nosebleed Section”, which describes success with uncommon gratitude, or 2016’s “1955”, which conjures the quiet life of a bygone era. Reflecting in 2012 on the world the group tries to capture and create, MC Suffa said, “The sort of music we write isn’t about material things—what car we drive, who we sleep with, things we own. It’s more about how we live, what we love and the culture.”
- ORIGIN
- Adelaide, Australia
- FORMED
- 1991
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap