Adelaide street renaming to honour global hiphop stars in the hood
The unveiling of a west end tribute to a top Adelaide hip-hop trio that took the hard road from Blackwood is only A Matter of Time, well a matter of months to be more precise.
Clubhouse Lane off Hindley Street will be renamed ‘Hilltop Hoods Lane’ with the unveiling scheduled for later this year.
Hilltop Hoods Lane will feature a dynamic public art installation, custom street signage and commemorative plaques, honouring the trio that took ‘The Hard Road’ to achieve their own laneway, with humble beginnings in Blackwood three decades ago in 1994.
Adelaide City Lord Mayor Jane Lomax-Smith took to Instagram this morning with a rap of her own to make the announcement.
“From playing gigs at the Worldsend Hotel and Adelaide UniBar to performing in front of crowds of 50,000 adoring fans, hip-hop royalty Hilltop Hoods have helped reinforce a familiar Adelaide truth – that great talent starts local and can reach audiences across the globe,” she says.
“While they have entertained millions with their music, they have also shown young musicians cutting their teeth in South Australia that they too can end up on the Triple J Hottest 100 and play some of the biggest stages across the world.
“It seemed fitting to add the band to our cavalcade of City of Music Laneways as they prepare to shake stages across the country, with current national arena tour underway this month.”
It was at the turn of the century when the trio began to make head waves with the independent album releases of A Matter of Time in 1999 and Left Foot, Right Foot in 2001.
It was in 2003, however, that the group rose to mainstream success following the release of their third album The Calling.
The album’s lead single ‘The Nosebleed Section’ has since become a classic of Australian hip-hop and was recently voted as the second greatest Australian song of all time in a 2025 Triple J Hottest 100 countdown.
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Since then, the group have become one of most prolific artists at the ARIA Music Awards, winning 10 awards from 41 nominations. They have sold more than one million albums, amassed 1.9 billion streams and achieved seven ARIA number one albums.
The group have played internationally at the world’s biggest festivals including Glastonbury in 2008 and Reading and Leeds Festival in 2018, and have since maintained a strong international fanbase.
Hilltop Hoods rapper and producer ‘MC Suffa’ says the group were honoured to join other legendary artists with their own laneway.
“We love our city, and this gesture just connects us even further to the place that we call home,” he says.
Hilltop Hoods will become the sixth South Australian artist to receive a City of Music Laneway, joining The Angels, No Fixed Address, Paul Kelly, Cold Chisel and Sia Furler in the city’s west end. There are plans for laneways to be named after Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach.
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