Irish/Australian/Palestinian artist Big Rigs has shared the thought-provoking alternative hip-hop track ‘Falasteen Flow’.

The Sydney rapper is the daughter of a Dublin dad and a Palestinian mother – whose Catholic family was displaced during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Taking inspiration from ‘80s and ‘90s hip-hop, The Black American struggle resonated strongly with the rapper, echoing her Irish and Palestinian background.

“It’s a similar violence and hypocrisy that Australia’s Indigenous first nations people experienced in the colony I grew up in,” she says. “Rap records spoke the truth, a truth schools, universities and other curricula hid.”

“00s rappers like Immortal technique, Lowkey and Missy Elliot really shaped me too in terms of finding a unique sound and story truth telling style. They proved to me it was mad cool to be different and speak truth.”

‘Falasteen Flow’ was produced by Sereensounds, a Sydney-based artist and producer whose grandparents similarly lived through what is commonly referred to as ‘The Nakba’ in the 1940s.

“I feel the Palestinian story and music movement is an ode to rap and hip-hop’s true roots,” added Big Rigs. “This may well be the first rap track to ever be written, performed and produced solely by Palestinian women. “