Nooky - Run Dingo feat. I.AmSolo (Official Video)

Official single 'Run Dingo' feat. I.AmSolo - Out Now
Click to listen here - https://Nooky.lnk.to/rundingo

Official Music Video for 'Run Dingo'
This video was filmed on Gadigal Land

The concept for Run Dingo came about last invasion day when I was sitting at home with my daughter. I was thinking about the prejudice and racism I experienced as a child growing up here in Australia and how my daughter was inevitably going to experience those things too. Invasion day is a draining day for us and I started laying down how I was feeling sitting there with my daughter reflecting on my childhood. one of my brother boys had shown me a song called “Run Dingo Run” by Black Allen Barker back in 2010 with the idea I should sample it. The lyrics in the song talk about the dingo culling’s and there being a price on a dingos head, drawing a comparison with blackfullas, like Allen, I feel there’s a price on our heads too especially when being vocal about certain issues and topics. I took the song idea and sample to I.AmSolo, and that’s how “Run Dingo” was born. I think it’s one of the strongest songs I’ve made. Making this song brought me back to the essence of why I began to make music in the first place.

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Written by Nooky, I.AmSolo, Black Allan Barker and 18YOMAN
Produced by Mansus
Mixed by I.AmSolo & Nooky

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Lyrics:

Sometimes it hurts when I look into the eyes of my daughter
Coz I know the pain that lays in when we take this corner
I put the weight of the world on my back tryna break these chains
So she don’t carry my trauma
And she’s only four so how the fuck can I warn her

That she might called a boong
She might get called coon
And school teachers won’t teach the truth
And she'll have white friends and they’ll have different views
Whole worlds confused

Do you know what that’s like?
When their blessing is your curse
That’s the privilege of being white
Now here’s the part where they say I’m as white as them,
See was called a black cunt by the white kids
But the black kids never called me a white one.

Now the fights on, Pick a side, pick the right one,
Coz when it’s said done and truth comes to light that’s the side you die on
See I couldn’t give a fuck if they change the day not
And I use my pain to paint a lot, Fukn right it takes a toll tryna save lost

Run Dingo, Run,
There’s a price upon your head, there’s a price, run.
I said run dingo, run
There’s a price upon your head, there’s a price, run

Fuk that! Let em feel my hurt
Rose grown from the bloodied earth
Odds stacked up from the day of birth
Made half the pay for twice the work

Still tryna figure out how much my life worth
Is that Ten years less? Or a hundred thou plus
What I gotta say it to get it through to them cunts

Still no love for us, but I got no hate for them
Hands firm I’m a pray for them
It’s to late we can’t start again
Let’s get it right if there’s two sides

I don’t know yours and you don’t know mine
I’ve got pain you’ve got pride
All the shame, they fukn hide
Let’s bring it to the surface

Give these words some purpose
Try heal that hurtin, One thing that’s certain
I couldn’t fuck about southern cross or Union Jack
white yellow brown brindle black

Lies and facts the past present and futures black
Cuz I hate this fight and I hate this song
Who’s gunna tell the kids we got it wrong
And Now who’s gonna fix it

Who’s the hero? who’s the villain? who’s the victim?
They stole that wisdom and the children they took held the keys to the kingdom
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A Sonder Films Production:

Directed by Josh Lee
Director of Photography by Paven Gill
Produced by Sonder Films
Edited by Josh Lee
Photography by Nikhil Ninan
Assistant: Jenn Poon
Visual Effects by Josh Lee
Locations: The Oaks
Studio Nest Creative & Bad Apples Music
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