A.B. Original

A.B. Original
A.B. Original
Origin	South Australia, Australia
Genres	Australian hip hop; political hip hop;
Years active	2016–present
Labels	Golden Era; Bad Apples;
Members	Briggs; Trials;

A.B. Original is an Australian hip hop duo made up of Indigenous Australian rappers Briggs and record producer Trials. A.B. Original stands for Always Black, Original. Both members are Indigenous Australians; Briggs is a Yorta Yorta man and Trials is Ngarrindjeri.^[1] Their music is overtly political and has been described as "angry, polemical, brutally frank and meant to inspire a response, good or bad".^[2]

^ Byron, Tim (25 November 2016), "A.B. Original: 'We wrote the hardest shit we could write, and it's being supported'", The Sydney Morning Herald
^ Zuel, Bernard (27 November 2016), "A.B. Original album Reclaim Australia is a necessary shock to the system", The Canberra Times

[Byron-1] Byron, Tim (25 November 2016), "A.B. Original: 'We wrote the hardest shit we could write, and it's being supported'", The Sydney Morning Herald

[Zuel-2] Zuel, Bernard (27 November 2016), "A.B. Original album Reclaim Australia is a necessary shock to the system", The Canberra Times

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