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Brothers Stoney is an Australian hip hop
Australian hip hop
Australian hip hop music began in the early 1980s; originally it was primarily influenced by hip hop music and culture imported via radio and television from the United States of America. However, since the 1990s, a distinctive local style has developed. Australian hip hop is an underground music...

 group hailing from Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

. The crew comprises emcees Lazy Grey and Len One. Both Lazy Grey and Len One are members of the Brisbane hip hop crew, 750 Rebels.

Boney & Stoney

Lazy Grey and Len One, along with Melbourne MC, Bias B, were in a crew called Boney & Stoney. Boney & Stoney released a self titled EP in 1999.

Brothers Stoney

Brothers Stoney have played at Livid Festival (2001), Good Vibrations Festival (2004) and performed alongside artists such as Native Ryme Syndicate
Native Ryme Syndicate
Native Ryme Syndicate is a Brisbane based rap group. Native Ryme Syndicate won a Deadly award in 1998 for Most Promising New Talent They have played with Spiderbait, Regurgitator and 28 Days and at the Big Day Out and Livid festivals....

 (2001). Brothers Stoney have had airplay on Australian radio programs and stations such as Triple J (2005), 4ZzZ (2011) and RRR (2009), (2010).

Lazy Grey

Lazy Grey was in a Brisbane band called Towering Inferno with DJ Damage
DJ Damage
DJ Damage is an Australian hip hop DJ and turntablist from Brisbane, Australia. He started in hip hop culture via breaking and buying records in 1983. DJ Damage was in Brisbane mid 90s hip hop group Towering Inferno, and a member of the Big Rigs six turntable DJ team from the same period...

 and B-Boy Flex in 1994–1997. The group performed at the first B-Boy Kingdom hip hop jam in 1996. Lazy Grey has collaborated with artists such as Brisbane band, Resin Dogs
Resin Dogs
Resin Dogs are a Brisbane, Australia-based hip hop band, originally formed in 1996. Resin Dogs are a loose collective, a cut and paste sample band who use live drums, live bass, and elements of hip hop via turntables and samplers to create all forms of ritual dance sounds...

 (Hi Fidelity Dirt album, 2003), Bias B, Brad Strut
Brad Strut
Brad Strut is an Australian hip hop emcee and singer based in Melbourne. Strut has performed and released material as a solo artist, and is also a member of hip hop group Lyrical Commission.-Biography:...

, Pegz, Tornts. Lazy Grey's musical style has been described as Ocker hip hop by Tony Mitchell in his paper "The Reography of Reason: Australian Hip Hop as Experimental History and Pedagogy" :
"‘Ocker’ hip hop is mainly Anglo-Australian, insists on using a broad Australian accent, with frequent swearing and recourse to Australian slang, decries MCs who rap with an American accent as ‘wack’ (ridiculous) and often celebrates aspects of Anglo-Australian working class culture like barbecues, sport and pubs. Prominent exponents include the Hilltop Hoods, Brisbane’s Lazy Grey and Perth-based ‘femcee’ Layla."


OzHipHop.com's hip hop music reviewer, gerling in her review of Lazy Grey's The Soundtrack album, noted that,
"Lazy Grey has lost none of his frustrated verbal elegance, and with 'The Soundtrack' he proves that he is one of Oz hip hop's pre-eminent MCs. His diction is crisp, his flow is effortless and he can still write intricate, clever rhymes".

Lazy Grey

On Tap (with Len-one) (Cassette only) (1997)

On or Off Tap (1998)

Banned in Queensland (2004)

The Soundtrack (2009)
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