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Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Watch Tasman Keith Go In On Outkast's ‘B.O.B.' For NAIDOC Week ‘Like A Version'
Tasman Keith has made his debut on triple j's flagship segment Like A Version, covering Outkast's 'B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)'. The Gumbaynggirr rapper was joined in the ABC Studios by his longtime musical director Nikos Haropoulos-Smallman, as well as a full live band and four backing vocalists – one of whom was his brother, Sammy Jarrett (AKA Kapital J). Keith, donning coloured contacts and with a black, yellow and red scarf wrapped around his mic stand, blended André 3000's original opening verse with his own lyrics during the cover, while keeping the song's original chorus. The performance also, notably, saw percussionist and fellow Gumbaynggirr man River Langford wearing a t-shirt expressing Indigenous solidarity with the people of Palestine. Earlier this week, former ABC journalist Antoinette Latouf won her unfair dismissal case against the broadcaster, following her contract being terminated last year on account of supporting Palestinian liberation. 'I grew up always loving this song,' said Keith in a post-performance interview. 'It was always on the list for if I ever did Like A Version. For me, with a lot going on right now here and everywhere, it just felt like what I needed and what I wanted to say. Also, to be able to pen a verse after an Andre 3000 verse is a challenge, and so I wanted to take that on.' The cover can be viewed below. Keith's appearance on the segment comes ahead of this year's NAIDOC Week, which commences on July 6th. 2025 sees the week-long celebration of Indigenous people within Australia celebrate its 50th anniversary. This year's theme is 'The Next Generation: Strength, Vision And Legacy'. More information on NAIDOC Week for 2025, including events and award finalists, can be found here. Previous performers for Like A Version around NAIDOC Week include Gumbaynggirr Bundjalung singer-songwriter Jem Cassar-Daley, who covered Gwen Stefani's 'The Sweet Escape', as well as the late Archie Roach, who performed a Bob Marley medley in one of his final performances. In addition to performing the cover, Keith also performed his recently released single '70 Somethin'. Released on Wednesday (June 25th), the introspective ballad sees Keith reflect on the lives of his uncle and father, and openly ponders whether he would have met a different fate were he born in the same generation as them. Keith's stripped-back performance of the song can be viewed below. 'B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)' was originally released in September 2000, when Keith was four years old. It served as the lead single to the Atlanta duo's fourth studio album Stankonia, which also featured the group's mainstream breakthrough hit 'Ms. Jackson'. Although the song was not a major commercial success upon its initial release, the ensuing 25 years have seen it develop a reputation as one of the era's most culturally significant songs. Both Rolling Stone and Pitchfork featured the song in their respective lists of the best songs of the 2000s, with the latter ranking it number one. Tasman Keith Releases New Single 'LEFT RIGHT' – 'I Just Feel this Country is Ready to Hear It' triple j Announces 'Hottest 100 Of Australian Songs' For 50th Anniversary Watch The Amity Affliction Take On Turnstile For Their First Ever 'Like A Version' The post Watch Tasman Keith Go In On Outkast's 'B.O.B.' For NAIDOC Week 'Like A Version' appeared first on Music Feeds.
ABC News
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Tasman Keith - '70 Somethin'' (live for Like A Version)
Witness Tasman Keith hold important space with his performance of '70 Somethin'' live in the Like A Version studio. Swirling with a rumbling power, Tasman spits about his Uncle's story – who spent his life in prison – and the resilience he showed in the face of his situation. "In the third verse I was like 'ok well if I was born in that generation, how would my life be impacted?'," he said. "Would I end up in a cell? Would I end up unfortunately dying in there? Or being a victim of police brutality?" Sit with this heavy but incredible performance from the Gumbaynggirr man, Bowraville's finest. Posted 42m ago 42 minutes ago Thu 26 Jun 2025 at 10:30pm
ABC News
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Behind Tasman Keith's cover of Outkast 'B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)' for Like A Version
The seminal hip-hop track from Atlanta's slickest duo Outkast was always on the Like A Version dream list for Tasman Keith, he just needed the right moment to unleash it. "For me, just with a lot going on right now here and everywhere, it just felt like what I needed and what I wanted to say in the moment," he said. "And also to be able to pen a verse after an Andre 3000 verse is a challenge, and I wanted to take that on." Not only did he body his verse, creating bars that would make Three Stacks himself proud, Tasman was able to weave in his own history, perspective and truth into an already-powerful song. "Speak on, you know, freedom of my people, freedom of all people," he said. "Really putting us at the forefront. The favourite line of the band was the 'Weetbix and powdered milk' bar, when I brought that to rehearsal it was like 'yeah, that's the one'." Tasman aimed to represent mob from a broad range of areas with his performance, joining together performers from Gadigal, Gamillaraay and his own mob, the Gumbaynggirr people. "For me, I'm from regional Australia," he said. "So I wanted to bring regional mob to city mob and have us share this moment together. Yeah it was special." Posted 42m ago 42 minutes ago Thu 26 Jun 2025 at 10:30pm
ABC News
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Tasman Keith covers Outkast 'B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)' for Like A Version
What's cooler than being cool? Tasman Keith running it up on a stone-cold Outkast classic in the Like A Version studio. From Atlanta to the streets of Eora, the Gumbaynggirr man brought his own powerful spin on the alternative hip-hop duo's iconic 2000 hit, 'B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)'. "I grew up loving this song and it was always in the list for when I would do Like A Version," he said. "For me, just with a lot going on right now here and everywhere, it just felt like what I needed and what I wanted to say in the moment. And also to be able to pen a verse after an Andre 3000 verse is a challenge, and I wanted to take that on." After starting with Andre's flow, Tasman took it in his own direction where he spat venom on things that were more intimate and personal to him. "Speak on, you know, freedom of my people, freedom of all people," he said. "Really putting us at the forefront. The favourite line of the band was the 'Weetbix and powdered milk' bar, when I brought that to rehearsal it was like 'yeah, that's the one'." Run it back and check out more from Tasman Keith's debut in the Like A Version stuido below. Behind Tasman Keith's cover of Outkast 'B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)' for Like A Version Tasman Keith - '70 Somethin'' (live for Like A Version) Posted 39m ago 39 minutes ago Thu 26 Jun 2025 at 10:30pm
The Guardian
14-02-2025
- The Guardian
Sixty years ago, 29 students took a bus ride that changed the way Australia thought about race
When 29 students boarded a bus outside the University of Sydney on a summer night in February 1965, they had no idea the trip would become a defining moment for race relations in Australia. Inspired by the civil rights movement in the United States, they spent two weeks travelling country New South Wales, calling out racism in towns where cinemas, pools, clubs and shops were segregated or off-limits to Aboriginal people. The trip became known as the Freedom Ride. Sixty years on, two of the original riders and their descendants spoke to Guardian Australia about its enduring legacy. Sign up for Guardian Australia's breaking news email Before the Freedom Ride, many of the students had never experienced racism or poverty. But for Gary Williams, one of three Aboriginal people on the trip, it was nothing new. 'This bus trip, for the students, was life altering,' he says. 'I'd seen it all before.' The Gumbaynggirr man grew up in the coastal town of Nambucca Heads, a short drive from Bowraville, where Aboriginal people were denied entry to the pub and made to sit in flimsy wooden seats in the segregated front section of the cinema. At 17, Gary began an arts degree at the University of Sydney in 1963 alongside Charles Perkins, the charismatic leader of the Freedom Ride who went on to become one of the nation's most prominent Aboriginal activists. They were the first Aboriginal students to study at the institution. They formed a collective of like-minded young scholars called Student Action for Aborigines, from which the idea for the Freedom Ride was born. 'It was a way to bring attention to the situation in the country areas … put a bit of sunlight on it,' Gary says. Shortly before the bus departed, Gary was called home to deal with a family matter. He rejoined the group at Bowraville, where he was promptly nominated to walk into the local pub and order a beer, in defiance of its segregation policy. 'It was a bit daunting, but you had reporters there and some supporters and photographers, so basically they couldn't say no,' he recalls. The photo of Gary sipping a schooner alongside fellow student Brian Aarons – who went on to hold senior communications roles with Reconciliation Australia and the federal government – became a defining image of the tour. It is an image that Gary's granddaughter, the actor and playwright Dalara Williams, knows well. She found it as a teenager while scouring family albums to better understand where she came from and who she was. 'Growing up as an Aboriginal kid in this country … you do have this feeling of worthlessness,' says Dalara. 'To see that achievement really brought joy and pride back into my own identity.' Deterred by the 'aggressiveness' of politics, Dalara carved out her career on the stage. The Nida graduate, who starred alongside Miranda Tapsell in Top End Wedding, will soon make her writing debut with a play about Aboriginal people living in Redfern in the lead-up to the 1967 referendum. It features a character named Ernie, a law student who was part of the Freedom Ride. Dalara says she wanted to capture the spirit of those who fought for change in the 1960s. 'Their courage, their freedom of expression and their determination during that time … that's something that I carry with me to this very day,' she says. Asked whether her grandfather will be in the audience on opening night, she replies, 'I think he has no choice!' Gary is not one to overstate his achievements. After the Freedom Ride, he campaigned for the 1967 referendum and helped set up several Aboriginal legal services 'and things like that'. He is now head of the Muurrbay Aboriginal language centre at Nambucca Heads. In Bowraville, 'little legacies' of the Freedom Ride remain: there is a house on the edge of town that the students helped build, and a plaque at the refurbished cinema (now open to all) is dedicated to the group. Racism still exists, Gary says, 'but it's not as open as before'. 'I would say that life's a little better for the Freedom Ride having happened.' It was on the third day of the trip, in the north-west NSW town of Walgett, that Ann Curthoys began to suspect the Freedom Ride would be more significant than any of the students had imagined. Sign up to Breaking News Australia Get the most important news as it breaks after newsletter promotion The group was staging its first protest outside the local RSL, which refused membership to Aboriginal ex-servicemen. They stood in the hot midday sun, holding placards that read 'bullets did not discriminate' and 'Good enough for Tobruk. Why not Walgett RSL?'. Ann's diary, hand-written each night in her spiral notebook, recounts what happened next. 'After five [pm] a lot more people came to argue with us and it seemed as if half the town was there,' she wrote. 'The feeling in the town seemed very excited.' That night, as the bus left town, they noticed a truck approaching from behind. 'About 3 miles out of town a truck tried to push us off the road,' Ann wrote. 'On the third try he scraped the truck along the side of the bus and forced the bus driver to swerve off the road. It tipped slightly but not right over.' Ann, now 79, says it felt like a 'turning point'. 'That's when we really thought, this is something,' she recalls. Decades later Ann's adult son, Ned, would see the now-iconic images of his 19-year-old mother in a smart shift dress, holding a protest sign on a Walgett street. 'She kind of looks unflappable in those photos – I think that's what struck me,' he says. 'For the students to put themselves out there like that was just incredible.' During his formative years, Ned says, his mother was reticent to speak about the 'incredible hostility' she and the students faced on the trip, but it was generally understood that she had 'done something very important' when she was younger. Ann shrugs this off as a typical parent-child dynamic: 'I don't think parents tell their children anything, really,' she says with a laugh. That dynamic changed when Ned was in his mid-20s and living back with his parents in Canberra. He and his mother were both busily writing: Ned was working on his literature PhD, while Ann was compiling a book that would become the definitive account of the Freedom Ride. 'It was lovely, actually,' Ned says. 'My mother and I were going for walks, having some chats about the book.' For Ned – who learned little about Aboriginal Australia at school – the conversations helped fill some of the gaps in his formal education, driving home the gravity of the bus tour and his mother's role in it. 'It made a huge difference at the time in terms of the struggle against overt discrimination,' he says. 'I'm just really proud of her.' After the bus quietly returned to Sydney, Ann says the students mostly got on with their 'ordinary lives' – though the trip had left its mark. Several of the Freedom Riders gravitated towards careers that progressed Aboriginal affairs: some as lawyers and teachers, others as health administrators or political campaigners. Ann became an historian, her work often interrogating the origins and nature of racism. 'To me, that's a significant thing,' she says. 'Because one of the criticisms at the time was everyone was just out for a bit of fun. 'If that was true for anyone at the beginning, it wasn't by the end.'
