TIPENE

TIPENE

TIPENE

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Tipene is an established Hip-Hop artist hailing from ​Hastings, NZ. Tipene is considered one of Aotearoa’s ​leading bilingual Hip-Hop artists with an uplifting ​message deeply rooted in Te Ao Māori(Māori ​Worldview).


Tipene is most known for his debut track “West Side ​Hori” an autobiography of Tipene which earned him his ​first APRA Silver Scroll finalist nomination and the ​Remix featuring Sid Diamond and Sir T at 9 million ​streams. Hs Debut album ‘Tautoko’ featured Prince Tui ​Teka, Scribe, Che Fu and more winning Tipene his first ​music award “Best Maori Urban Artist 2019”.


In just over a decade-long career, Tipene has quietly ​amassed over 15 million streams across 3 studio ​albums, 3 x national tours, 2 x APRA Silver Scroll top 5 ​Finalist, WMMA Winner of Best Māori Urban Artist ​Best Māori Hip-Hop album, nominations for for multiple ​music awards including Best Māori Songwriter, best ​music video by Māori artist, best Māori solo male and ​over 100,000 online followers.


2019, Tipene became an ambassador for Māori Music ​and has been a finalist for multiple Waiata Māori Music ​Awards since 2019 including consecutive nominations ​for Best Solo Māori Male, Best Music Video by a Māori ​Artist, Best Song by a Māori artist and Best Māori ​Songwriter and Best Hip Hop Album.


His 2021 album ‘Heritage Trail’ is a landmark release ​for that set the bar for bilingual Hip-Hop


His 2022 project “We No Muck Around” released ​through LOOP won Tipene his second music award for ​Best Maori Hip-Hop Album and so far generated 400k ​online streams, 3 music videos shot by award winning ​Videographer Shae Stirling and Tipene touring 3 major ​shows with L.A.B playing to around 40k people in ​attendance.


Tipene is now working on Heritage Trail 2 due to ​release September 2024...


International Support

Joe Walsh(The Eagles)

The Wailers(Bob Marley)

Bone Thugs N Harmony


NZ Artists Support

L.A.B

Scribe

Che Fu

Troy Kingi

Maisey Rika

NZ Festivals

LAB Summer Tour 2023

(Tauranga, Hawkes Bay & Whangarei)

SPLORE (Coromandel)

RaggaMuffin Road Show (Hastings)

Exodus (Tauranga)

East Coast Vibes (Gisborne)

Waitangi Day Celebrations (Hastings)

World Indigenous Tattoo Festival (Tauranga)

Waiata Māori Music Awards (Hastings)

Summer Frequencies (Gisborne)

Newtown Festival (Wellington)

SXSW (Sydney)

NZ Hip-Hop Summit (Christchurch)

Matariki Celbrations (Auckland)

3 x NZ Tours



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TOI TU TE REO 2024

20TH ANNUAL PACIFIC MUSIC AWARDS

BACK IN THE LAB CREATING...

TOUR WRAPPED UP IN HAMILTON 2024

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Tautoko (2019)


Won - Best Hip-Hop Album

WMMA Finalist:

Best Māori Male

Best Music Video

Best Māori Songwriter

ARPA Silver Scroll Top 5


Produced by Tipene

Empire Records NZ

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Summer Tour 2024

Christchurch Hip-Hop Summit 2023

Tipene Performing at SXSW Sydney

Tipene & DJ Jayrasik LAB Summer Tour 2023

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MUSIC VIDEO BY SHAE STIRLING

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TIPENE - WE NO MUCK AROUND

MUSIC VIDEO BY SHAE STIRLING

TIPENE - FREEDOM

MUSIC VIDEO BY SHAE STIRLING

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ARTIST DEVELOPMENT

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Tipene has a BA in Education and has been a youth mentor for 17 years working in hard to reach communities, Kura Kaupapa, secondary schools, youth justice and adult learners largely through his various teaching roles and also mentoring in schools program through the NZ Music Commission.


Tipene’s main passions are people, Māori culture and music. He has managed to combine all of these passions to create ‘Poutama Music’ which involves self expression, self determination while developing self confidence and cultural connection.


Tipene is currently facilitating Poutama Music in Whitianga developing young talents into future leaders. Read..


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Chance ‘C33Y’ Haddon

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