Adam
Briggs

Briggs is a Yorta Yorta man and Australian rapper, lyricist, hip-hop artist, writer, presenter, author and actor.

Briggs became well-known as a solo rapper before co-founding the hip-hop duo A.B. Original in 2016. In the live arena, he has supported international artists such as 50 Cent, Ice Cube, Ice-T and KRS-One and worked with The Hilltop Hoods, Midnight Oil, Paul Kelly and Henry Rollins.

A.B. Original were crowned APRA’s 2018 Songwriters of the Year and in 2017 won the ARIAs for Best Independent Release and Best Urban Album and Triple J’s J Award for Album of the Year for their album Reclaim Australia. In 2022 the duo released their first new music in almost four years with the track ‘King Billy Cokebottle’ and toured the country with Hilltop Hoods.

Extending his career beyond music, Briggs has written on the Netflix animated series Disenchantment from the creators of The Simpsons and Futurama, wrote and performed in all three seasons of the sketch comedy series Black Comedy, played the role of Maliyan in the drama series Cleverman, was a regular on the Stan original series The Other Guy, appeared as a guest on Get Krack!n and is a regular on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering as well as The Yearly with Charlie Pickering. More recently, Briggs voiced the character of Adam in season 7 of Netflix’s Big Mouth and starred as Alex Bermuda in Boy Swallows Universe.

Briggs is the chair of the Adam Briggs Foundation, a First Nations-led charity organisation that plays a vital role in filling the gap of representation and skills-based development in the creative industries, for First Nations people.

In 2017, Briggs was named the GQ Agenda Setter of the Year.

Briggs released his first children’s book, Our Home, Our Heartbeat in 2020.