As Hilltop Hoods Complete Biggest Tour Yet, Australian Hip-Hop Legends Reflect on ‘Creativity Outside the Creativity’

Variety, we were reliably told in our youth, is the spice of life. If so, Hilltop Hoods has been cooking with the stuff for decades. The Australian hip-hop trio has enjoyed the type of career that isn’t written in any guidebook, one that’s busted records and consistently tracked up. With their tally of seven total leaders, HTH stand alone as the Australian band with the most No.

1s, besting the likes of AC/DC, Powderfinger, Cold Chisel and Silverchair. Their achievements will be set in stone. The City of Adelaide will rename Clubhouse Lane , a spot just off Hindley Street, the entertainment district in the CBD, as Hilltop Hoods Lane. “That’s one of the ways that you extend your stay,” Suffa tells Billboard . “That sort of creativity outside the creativity is what keeps it interesting, for you and for other people as well.

Rather than just album, tour.” He identifies the Beastie Boys fan-filmed concert project from 2006, “Awesome; I F—in’ Shot That!,” as a “thought outside of the box about how people can be involved with you, with...