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Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road

Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road Turns 20 As Landmark Australian Hip Hop Album

by Paul Cashmere

Twenty years after its release, The Hard Road by Hilltop Hoods remains a landmark Australian hip hop album, becoming the first in the genre to reach No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart.

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