Yolngu musician Baker Boy is a six-time ARIA Award winner and performed with American rapper Snoop Dog at the 2025 AFL grand final.<\/p>\n
He has established himself as a superstar of the Australian music scene, but told ABC News Breakfast that it created pressure to “sonically evolve” for his new album DJANDJAY.<\/p>\n
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Baker Boy’s new album DJANDJAY is named after his late grandmother. (Supplied: Island Records Australia)<\/p>\n
“The whole album process was kind of like, this trying out different hats,” Baker Boy said.<\/p>\n
“There’s a choir, a punkiness, a lot of bratty, sort of, vibe music and then, of course, hip-hop there as well.”<\/p>\n
Performing with Snoop Dog<\/p>\n
Last month Baker Boy took the internet by storm with his yidaki performance to one of Snoop Dog’s most iconic songs, Still D.R.E..<\/p>\n
“It was actually one of the incredible moments of my life,” Baker Boy said.<\/p>\n
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“Being up on the riser and having Snoop say Baker Boy. It’s crazy.” \u00a0<\/p>\n
Channelling difficult emotions<\/p>\n
Baker Boy told News Breakfast co-host and Dja Dja Wurrung and Yorta Yorta woman Bridget Brennan that the 2023 Voice referendum made it difficult to work on his music.<\/p>\n
“It was just clouding my creative thoughts,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The whole atmosphere was just, kind of, dark and eerie, I was like, maybe, we should write about it and just get this feeling out so we can move past it.<\/p>\n
“When it was the neo-Nazis going and destroying Camp Sovereignty, I turned the music on again and played it on repeat.<\/p>\n
“I felt really proud and comfortable under my skin,” he said about listening to his new album.<\/p>\n
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He was not alone.<\/p>\n
“There have been a lot of mob coming up to me and saying, this song is amazing.”<\/p>\n
DJANDJAY<\/p>\n
His new album is named after his late grandmother.<\/p>\n
“I wanted to dedicate it to my late grandma,” he said.<\/p>\n
‘She was the one who introduced hip-hop to my dad and uncle and the families and the community.”<\/p>\n
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Yolngu\u00a0musician\u00a0Baker Boy. (Supplied: Island Records Australia)<\/p>\n
Baker Boy says he wantedto inspire the younger mob to live up to their dreams.<\/p>\n
“I can do it, you can do it.”<\/p>\n
DJANDJAY by Baker Boy is out on October 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yolngu musician Baker Boy is a six-time ARIA Award winner and performed with American rapper Snoop Dog at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49418,64,63,76406,126221,134,126222,6521,50625,113109],"class_list":{"0":"post-202458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-afl-grand-final","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-baker-boy","12":"tag-djandjay","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-indigenous-artists","15":"tag-new-album","16":"tag-snoop-dog","17":"tag-yolngu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}