7 days ago
Feature Video: 3% - Our Greats
Coming in as a hot contender for 2025's most wholesome music video, First Nations hip hop supergroup 3% light the (Sydney Olympic) torch for 'Our Greats'.
Artists Nooky, Dallas Woods and Angus Field are back at it with a deeply personal release, one that Dallas says is a tribute to 'the ones who dared to believe, who fought through adversity, and who laid the foundation so we could stand tall today'. The video clip for 'Our Greats' has been co-directed by Gabriel Gasparinatos, Nick Rae and 3%'s own Nooky and features a string of First Nations legends including Cathy Freeman and Patty Mills. What makes this clip and track even more special is its inclusion of so many indigenous youth (including Nooky's children!), who are the true stars of the show. 'Andy said it'd be good to get some kids on the hook' Nooky explains. 'My eldest daughter had been asking to do a song with us ever since hearing her sister Calula on 'Coming Home'. Also through the work we do with We Are Warriors we have a lot of young mob in the programs who can rap and sing. A few months later I flew to Melbourne with Olivia and Calula to record the hook and I was blown away by how quick they picked it up, I didn't know they could sing like that.'
'Not long after that through We Are Warriors I got to take young Taphiao to Miami to hang out with Patty Mills, then when we got back to Australia all the other kids recorded their parts. In the song the kids shout out a bunch of mob who are achieving and have achieved at the highest level. They were rattling off too many names to fit in the song, but I felt proud that these kids knew who Cathy Freeman is; who Ash Barty and Adam Goodes are. I could see the greatness reflected in them and to hear them stand up and sing with such strength and hope blows me away. I'm just glad they let me put a verse on their song.'
