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Tasman Keith didn't come here to point fingers

The First Nations rapper comes from "a place of understanding [that] at the end of the day everybody is human and we all have a lack of knowledge that we can expand on." His debut album is out today.
Tasman Keith, whose debut album <em>A Colour Undone</em> released July 8, 2022.

In rural eastern Australia, along a winding river, is a tiny town with a hard history — and a thriving hip-hop scene. Bowraville is a "mission" — an indigenous community established in the 19th century to be deliberately segregated from the white population.

Tasman Keith grew up in Bowraville. He's a rapper, before him, who uses his music to make sense of the history wrapped around his

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