Inkabee Makes ‘Like A Version’ Debut With Black Eyed Peas Cover

Inkabee has made his triple j Like A Model debut, protecting the Black Eyed Peas‘ 2003 hit “The place Is the Love?” — changing into one of many youngest artists to ever carry out within the studio.

The Noongar Wongi rapper from Boorloo (Perth), nonetheless a youngster, delivered a full-band tackle the 2003 aware hip-hop basic, leaning into its themes of worldwide division and compassion with a confidence that belied his age.

For Inkabee, the track choice was instinctive. “Me and my mum had been driving within the automotive and we already had our Like A Model track picked out,” he mentioned. “However we had been simply listening to songs and ‘The place Is The Love?’ got here on. We had been listening and I simply thought it’s probably the most good track for a way the world is correct now.”

That sort of intuition has been there from the beginning. Inkabee launched his debut monitor “Beat the Odds” in December 2022 alongside his father, rapper and activist Flewnt, at simply 11 years previous. That debut attracted nationwide press and radio consideration and earned two West Australian Music Award nominations.

The pair’s subsequent collaboration, “We Dat Good”, went viral after a dwell triple j Bars of Metal efficiency racked up greater than 10 million views on-line, introducing Inkabee to a far wider viewers.

Inkabee has since gathered the sort of resume that may flip heads at any age. At SXSW Sydney in 2023, Likelihood the Rapper launched him on stage and referred to as him “the way forward for Australian hip-hop.”

He has carried out the Indigenous spherical of the AFL at Perth’s Optus Stadium in entrance of 60,000 individuals, performed Vivid Sydney on the Sydney Opera Home, and showcased at SXSW Texas. He was additionally named the triple j Unearthed Excessive Indigenous Initiative winner, a program whose alumni embrace Genesis Owusu, The Child LAROI and Hockey Dad.