Music: She twerks hard for the money

Australian hip-hop is a divided scene. There are the stalwarts, such as Hilltop Hoods or Bliss n Eso, who have made a career of thrilling middle-of-the-road festival-goers and Triple J listeners with emotionally charged anthems, and arrayed against them are posturing suburban gangsters, such as Seth Sentry and the execrable 360, who rhyme sulkily about stuck-up girls failing to pay them attention. Absent from either camp are high-profile female performers. Largely confined to providing backing vocals or the occasional catchy chorus (for instance, Jane Tyrrell guesting on the Herd's wonderful Howard government eulogy 'The King Is Dead'), women in Australian hip-hop are usually attractive addenda to preening all-male posses.