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Hip Hop & Hymns

by Mawunyo Gbogbo

Narrator Chantelle Jamieson

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Length 9 hours 36 minutes

Language English

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'Hip hop and hymns: the two would always go hand in hand for me. My life would always straddle both. The sacred and the profane, all living on the same block, all divine in the end.'

Mawunyo Gbogbo is a church-going African Australian girl growing up in the sleepy mining town of Muswellbrook, NSW. At home, her parents fight all the time, and sibling rivalry runs deep. At primary school, Black Is Beautiful until a racist bully dares to tell her otherwise. But at high school, she falls in love with two things that will alter the course of her adult life: the seductive thrill of hip hop music and charismatic bad boy Tyce Carrington. Tyce also feels like an alien in Australia, despite his Aboriginality - or because of it.

When Mawunyo's offered a chance to further her budding media career in New York City at the Bible of hip hop, The Source magazine, she throws herself headlong into the city's heady buzz and hustle - but even as it lures her in, it threatens to derail her dreams.

Hip Hop & Hymns is a tussle between the search for belonging and ultimately accepting who you are, and a clear-eyed, heartfelt story about daring greatly and what it can mean to be Black in Australia.

Biography & Memoir Nonfiction

Mawunyo Gbogbo (Author)
Mawunyo Gbogbo is a music and pop culture reporter for Double J and ABC News, and the author of Hip Hop & Hymns.

She has worked as a journalist for ABC NewsRadio; a features reporter and producer for ABC Radio Sydney; a segment producer for the Today show on the Nine Network; and an associate producer for Insight on SBS TV, where she won a UN Media Peace Award.

Mawunyo was born in Ghana, raised in Muswellbrook in the NSW Hunter Valley, and now calls Sydney home.

Chantelle Jamieson (Reader)
A WAAPA graduate, Chantelle Jamieson is enjoying a flourishing career across film, theatre and television. Chantelle was most recently seen in the Ensemble Theatre production of Killing Katie: Confessions of A Bookclub, and The Sydney Theatre Company production of Home, I'm Darling. Previous theatre credits include Still Point Turning (STC), Girl in the Machine (NToP), Fierce and Look Back in Anger (Redline) and Wit (Clock and Spiel). In 2021 she appeared in the US feature Peter Rabbit 2, as well as Aussie drama June Again. On the small screen, Chantelle joined the fifth season of Nine Network's Doctor Doctor as new series regular 'Sharna'. Other television credits include Frayed, Crownies and Diary of an Uber Driver for the ABC and House Husbands for the Nine Network.