Phrase & Brad Strut

Phrase, born Harley Webster in 1981, discovered that hip-hop was cool when his parents confiscated all his tapes after hearing one of the Body Count cassettes he kept under his bed. As a teenager, Phrase was living the life of the typical white Australian homeboy, graffiti and drugs and rap battles on the train tracks. Two wakeup calls changed his life. One came when former footballer Jim Stynes came to speak at his school about the Reach Youth program and their Dream Factory, helping young people build confidence and set goals for themselves. The other came when he was hospit...