Diggy Dupé
Celebrating 36 finalists across 15 different categories in a special live television event The 2021 Aotearoa Music Awards will be a live television event screened on TVNZ 2 and TVNZ OnDemand from the Aotea Centre. The event will take place in December and will be rescheduled to a date in early 2022 if Covid-19 restrictions […]
This week’s Local Eyes is from Hip hop young gun and Pacific Music Award Nominee (Best Pacific Hip Hop Artist) Diggy Dupé signals that the grind of the working week is coming to a close and celebrates the start of the good times with ‘WEON’. This latest release with producer Tamagotchi and mixed by SmokeyGotBeatz samples Nesian Mystik’s unforgettable hit ‘It’s On’.
This week on Native Tongues we get to know rising hip hop artist ‘IAC’ and hear his latest single ‘Poly Mentality ft. Rizván’ plus new music from Ahlei, OD and more. Featured Tracks and Artists: Wait 4 It – SWIDT, Teeflii FROM 0 – Od 5:35 – Diggy Dupé, Rizván, REDDXROZAY War Outside – Church […]
TALKING POINTS on Base FM – hosted by Ian Beatmaster Wright Thanks to NZ On Air Music Date: 17th March 2021 Guest reviewer: Aidan Fine Featured release: Choicevaughan ‘deuce’ Released: 2020 Featured track #1: Kentucky Gold Featured track #2: End of the Weak Featured track #3: Beyond DEUCE is a six track collection produced by […]
This month on Native Tongues… 1st March 2020 Featured Track and Artist: Lightning Bolt – Team Dynamite, Bailey Wiley Taken from their latest release Respect The Process, ‘Lightning Bolt’ features the glorious vocals of Bailey Wiley. Following on from the fast paced challenge of ‘Who?’ ft. Diggy Dupe and ‘Dragon Fruit’ ft. Louis Baker, ‘Lightning Bolt’ […]
This week’s Local Eyes is from New Zealand MC MELODOWNZ with ‘Money’, the Polynesian wordsmith’s first drop of new music for 2021. Where previous release ‘Big Deals’ featuring Diggy Dupé celebrated the hustle, ‘Money‘ charts what comes next, when you’ve secured the bag. “Everybody want a piece of the pie right, so we can all eat?” MELODOWNZ raps – when you’re determined to grind and […]
This week on Native Tongues!… Featured Artist: Poetik, Raggadat Cris Featured Track: ‘FAME’ Award winning artist Poetik is known for his outspoken opinions on racism, Polynesian culture, mainstream media and for putting Samoan Hip Hop on the map. Raggadat Cris ‘Chris Tongi’ grew up in South Auckland but now resides in Australia where he juggles […]
This week is Niue language week so we’ve picked some very talented artists from ‘the Rock’! Definitely no stranger to Base, Diggy Dupé is picked to start the show with ‘Island Time‘ and ‘40oz (The Gate)‘ both from his iconic 2018 release via Renaissance Music. Haz Beats, in-house producer of Team Dynamite, Homebrew and beat maker […]
Starting off this week on Native Tongues is Ōtautahi rapper Big Sima with his latest track ‘Back Up‘ which features Auckland rapper bKIDD. He’s also worked with Summer Thieves, Tiki Taane and Dick Johnson. After releasing his EP ‘The Underground King’ (released in 2019), he became one of the highest streamed South Island rappers on Spotify […]
The new single from Auckland rapper Diggy Dupé sees him join forces with AP of Church & AP and Smokey Got Beatz of SWIDT. ‘That’s Team’ is the third single from Diggy’s forthcoming debut album That’s Me, That’s Team. Diggy Dupé has been making music since he was a teenager. In 2017 he released his debut […]