Description
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 churchgoing 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 Mawunyos 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 citys heady buzz and hustle but even as it lures her in it threatens to derail her dreams
Hip Hop amp Hymns is a tussle between the search for belonging and ultimately accepting who you are and a cleareyed heartfelt story about daring greatly and what it can mean to be Black in Australia
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