Bam Bam to Unveil New EP

Bam Bam to Unveil New EP Bam Bam (Joel Chamaa) is an upcoming Australian rapper who has an EP ready to drop later this week, called “The Good Life”. This is his first EP after the 2013 mixtapes “Straight Outta Bedrock” and “Miwk Hawk”.

Two singles are out from this new project: “Bags Packed”, featuring fellow Melbourne rapper Allday, and “Feel Like I’m Alive”, featuring r&b singer Tigerilla. Joel Chamaa says collaboration on the Australian hip hop scene is very important and it’s actually one of the defining traits for hip hop culture in general: “Rappers tend to stick together. We’re still a new kind of thing to the mainstream market of Australia so we all need to help each other out. In the rock scene, or any other genre, I don’t know if people tend to work together as much as rappers like to work together.”
“The Good Life” has six tracks and it also features another Aussie rapper: 360. He makes a guest appearance on “Day By Day”. He is also from Melbourne, a city that until now has only been recognized for its great rock bands. But as we can see it now also nourishes a strong rap community. “Melbourne has a lot of awesome hip hop artists, so it’s good to all feed off each other. Not all the time, but a lot of the time everyone wants to help each other out because we’re trying to achieve the same goal here. It’s a good scene to be a part of,” says Chamaa.

But being part of a tightly knit community doesn’t mean that all music coming from here will sound the same. “If every artist does what they do it’s going to be unique anyway,” Chamaa says. “I’m not trying to copy any other artist or do what other artists are doing. I tried to create something that I was really happy with and I felt translated me as an artist to the listener. I didn’t aim to create anything in particular, I just worked on it until I was like, ‘This is the ‘me’ that I want people to hear and this is what I want people’s first impression of me to be.”

Talking about the most challenging parts he had to face while working on his new EP, Joel Chamaa said, “The writing part is the easy part for me. [The hard part’s] been trying to find the right beats. Because it is my first release I wanted to get it right and really sum me up as an artist. To do that you need to find the right music that accompanies what you want to do lyrically. For me it was trying to find the right producers to work with and locking down the right beats. I know what I’m looking for, but I just have to find it. So you just go from producer to producer until you find what it is exactly that you’re looking for.”

We can only hope that he found the perfect beats and balance and by the sound of his first singles, things are looking great. Have a look here at the official music video for “Bags Packed” and get ready for the entire Australian hip hop experience once the EP is out. Enjoy!