Artist:Johnny Row

Born in Brisbane and raised in North Queensland, John Rowbotham (aka Johnny Row) leads pretty much as normal a life as any other Australian. His introduction to Hip Hop Rap music dates back to his primary school years, where he happened upon a cassette tape that just so happened to be N.W.A- Straight Outta Compton. “Imagine an 8 year old white kid singing F!*k the Police, that was me,” he remembers, and with that the seed was planted. From that point on he would grow to love the boom-bap sound combined with edgy lyrical content delivered through fluent, exciting word play. In the beginning he was drawn to the sound of heavy hitting percussion at a slow to moderate tempo more so than the actual words of a song due to him being too young to understand or make any sense of the lyrics- apart from the swearing! By the time Row was 13 he and his mother had moved to Innisfail, North Queensland, where he began to play rugby league. Spied early by the North Queensland Cowboys, he was placed ...