AB Original on Reclaim Australia, the album: 'Being black, everything you do becomes a protest'

Hip-hop act AB Original, which consists of Briggs and Trials, named their album Reclaim Australia as a reference to the rightwing, self-declared ‘patriots’ who go by the same name. Photograph: Michell Grace Hunder/Golden Era Records

If there’s one positive takeaway from the furious sociopolitical mess that has been 2016, it’s that protest music is alive and well in Australia. And not before time.

AB Original is the project of Briggs (aka Adam Briggs), the Yorta Yorta rapper, writer, Cleverman actor and Black Comedy star, and Trials (aka Daniel Rankine), the Ngarrindjeri MC and producer best known as one third of Adelaide hip-hop crew Funkoars.