Wabs Whitebird
Wabs Whitebird shares his insights, experiences and deepest reflections on urban aboriginal life through his Story-Mind Rap performances and recordings.
In their own words (transcript)
The quality of the music, how it sounds that’s how I basically decide if anybody’s music is good. You always got to have the production value of it has to be good, and that basically means you’re serious about it. If you want to be professional about it, you got to take the professional route. So I pretty much was fortunate enough to hook up with the right people. And I am doing what I’m doing right now. It was hard at first but it’s not so hard now. 
In the mainstream context it’s like, rap music is about, you know: sex, drugs, money, all that. But a story mind rap, basically what i’ve done is, I’ve taken that teaching tool. That teaching tool and that story tool that Native People basically just have, that we are born with. And I’ve taken that story tool and that teaching tool, and I use it in my music. So that’s why I call myself a story mind rapper. So that’s what I prefer to call myself.
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