Music for... Pride, Power & Protest by DOBBY
DOBBY is a rapper, drummer, speaker, and proud member of the Murrawarri Republic of Weilmoringle, NSW. His Music for... Pride, Power and Protest playlist, compiled for the Sydney Opera House, represents essential listening selected from the works of blak artists, a stark musical reminder of our times and a call to arms for change.
This is only a small sample of our abundant blak excellence. If you haven’t heard of these songs and artists, I strongly encourage you to explore the rest of their music and their related artists. I’m so proud of our mob for speaking up, demonstrating blak resilience, blak strength and contributing to that long intergenerational tradition of Pride, Power and Protest.
“What you know about Black Deaths in Custody? What do you know about that?”
“Unfortunately, this song is still relevant. This song is bigger than Hip Hop. It’s bigger than music. These are actual lives. Since the 1991 Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody, there have been 437 (and rising) blak deaths in custody. Not one conviction has been made, despite the fact that in many cases such as the case of David Dungay Jr, these murders were caught on film. The families of these lost lives are forced to feel this trauma again and again as the hearings are adjourned, court cases postponed month after month, year after year. The legal costs are crippling, and when we call for justice, we are lectured and demeaned. They say “Stop copying America.” Where is the justice? Yung Warriors wrote this song for you. So what next?”
“Unfortunately, this song is still relevant. This song is bigger than Hip Hop. It’s bigger than music. These are actual lives. Since the 1991 Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody, there have been 437 (and rising) blak deaths in custody. Not one conviction has been made, despite the fact that in many cases such as the case of David Dungay Jr, these murders were caught on film. The families of these lost lives are forced to feel this trauma again and again as the hearings are adjourned, court cases postponed month after month, year after year. The legal costs are crippling, and when we call for justice, we are lectured and demeaned. They say “Stop copying America.” Where is the justice? Yung Warriors wrote this song for you. So what next?”