Teaching Ears - Ep 6 - Going Back Forever with Fred Leone A.K.A Rival MC

Fred Leone A.K.A Rival MC is a Butchulla Song Man of Kgari also known as Fraser Island. He’s a very respected community leader, musician, educator, curator of culture, performer, dancer as well as family man. He is a Project Manager, Creative Producer, Artistic Director, Indigenous, Youth and Community Engagement Consultant and also an award Winning Australian Indigenous Hip Hop artist with his group Impossible Odds. On this episode we talk the origins of his learning as hip hop artist in many elements, involvement in hip hop workshops, song lines, Zillmere Multicultural Festival, Pig City, Stylin Up, Bowraville, Aboriginal role models, Bass X, Willing and Able, John Butler, Visible Ink, Contact Ink, Taiko Drums, Kingfisha, Impossible Odds, Malcom X, Youth Work, Ask Jeeves, Stealing Dictionaries, Sega, The Creative Assembly, Video Games, The Amato Brothers, Mattriks and the Book of Kin, Graffiti, Recipe for Disaster, DJ Daddy Dupe, Records, Promiscous, Murders, Wild Time, Aboriginal Linguistics and Languages, Embala, Massacres, Yellow Paddy, King Plates, Sweeny Brothers, Australian Slavery,  His new song with Birdz Bagi-La-M Bargan, Ted, Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky, Black Arm Band, Dance, Assimilation and Aboriginal Stockmen.