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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Brodie Lancaster

‘We weren’t planning to be this popular!’ Australian-Korean rappers 1300 hit the big time

1300, the Australian-Korean rap crew
‘We always thought, the language barrier is a pretty big fence to go over’ … 1300, the Australian-Korean rap crew. Photograph: Jordan Munns

In director Park Chan-wook’s 2003 neonoir thriller Oldboy, a man is held captive for 15 years before being stuffed in a trunk and hauled out into an empty field, left alone to solve the mystery of how he got there and why.

Two decades and 8,000km away, the members of high-octane hip-hop collective 1300 (pronounced one-three-hundred) smooth down their collars, mess up their hair and do their best impressions of the character Oh Dae-su and the goons terrorising him for their single, also named Oldboy. But where Oh Dae-su stood alone, 1300 mob the camera as a pack, grinning while rapping with some of the most impressive delivery seen in an Australian outfit in years.

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