Tipene

Tipene, is a multi award winning hip-hop artist, producer. Hailing from Aotearoa, NZ, Tipene is widely considered one of Aotearoa’s leading bilingual Hip-Hop artists with an uplifting message deeply rooted in Te Ao Māori(Māori Worldview). In just over a decade-long career, Tipene has quietly amassed over 19 million streams across 3 studio albums, winner of WMMA 'Best Urban Artist 2019' and 'Best Māori Hip Hop Album 2023' is a two-time APRA Silver Scroll finalist, completed 3 Nationwide tours, played at multiple NZ Festivals, had multiple NZ charting singles, and over 100,000 online followers. In 2019 Tipene became an ambassador for Māori Music, and won the award for “Best Māori Urban Artist 2019”. His autobiographical track “West Side Hori” from his debut album ‘Tautoko’, earned Tipene his first APRA Silver Scroll finalist nomination followed by the Remix featuring Sid Diamond and Sir T at 9 million streams across Youtube and Spotify which features as a theme song for the webseries ‘Kura’ on TV on Demand. Tipene won WMMA 'Best Māori Hip Hop Album' 2023 and has been a finalist for multiple Waiata Māori Music Awards 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 Māori Hip Hop Album