| Made with Fox Sports, the video carries the same weight as the sound – arresting, loud, impossible to ignore. It opens at The Skillion on Darkinjung Country, where the cliffs meet the sea, Fred Leone playing the yidaki and a brother beside him beating bilma (clapsticks). Moving between Australia and Aotearoa, it throws to the stadium stage, Nooky and Scribe take the halftime show at the Warriors vs Panthers game. Cutting to Dallas, floodlit, the Provan-Summons Trophy over his shoulder. Running through it all, the footy itself – old and new, all up against the same odds.
Having spent twelve weeks at #1 on the New Zealand Singles Chart, the original release went on to become the top single of 2003. A remix version featuring Savage and Con Psy appeared on the Australian Singles Chart for twenty-eight weeks, as well as finding its home in the Australasian charts. During its run at #1, Scribe released his debut album, The Crusader, which landed at #1 on the New Zealand Albums Chart and #12 in Australia, becoming the first NZ artist in the charts’ histories to simultaneously top the singles and album charts. The album went Gold within hours and Platinum within days, eventually reaching four times Platinum status in NZ and Platinum in Australia, selling over 180,000 copies combined across Australasia. Dominating the award season the following year, Scribe took home 7 titles at the New Zealand Music Awards (The Tuis), including Album of the Year, Best Male Solo Artist and Single of the Year, as well as winning the prestigious APRA Silver Scroll with co-writer and producer P-Money.
This single follows a breakthrough year for Fred Leone, who took Artist of the Year at the 2026 NIMAs with his cousin Birdz off their debut joint EP GIRA. His Yirinda project with Samuel Pankhurst debuted on the ARIA Charts and drew praise from NPR, while 2020 track “Bagi-la-m Bargan” – mixed in London and mastered at Abbey Road – has passed three million streams and won Best Song Composed for Screen at the 2022 Australian Screen Music Awards. He founded Impossible Odds Records, Queensland’s first Indigenous internationally distributed label, and worked on the Wunungu Awara research project, an initiative that collaborates with Aboriginal communities to preserve and revive endangered Indigenous languages, songs and Dreaming stories. On stage he’s taken his music to Vivid, Dark Mofo, Golden Plains and across Europe with Xavier Rudd.
“Not Many – Ganay Biralunbar” follows “All Gucci”, 3%’s sun-soaked collab with The Terrys, and before it the group’s most urgent release to date, “Welcome 2 Country” – delving into the true history of a Welcome to Country and the cascade of ironies that it carries within today’s context. As so-called Australian society continues to prove, the group are building one of the country’s most essential catalogues of Blak power, pride and protest – backed by ARIA wins, four NIMA nominations, triple j and Rolling Stone praise and a live run that’s taken them from Vivid Sydney and Dreamtime at the ‘G to supporting Denzel Curry on a national tour. More recently, 3% took We Are Warriors – Nooky’s initiative shining a light on Blak excellence to inspire, mentor and empower Indigenous youth – to interview the cast and crew of the new live-action Moana, finding common ground in the kinship between Blak and Pasifika storytelling and what it means to put culture front and centre.
That same kinship runs right through “Not Many – Ganay Biralunbar” – an Aotearoa classic, flipped by mob and sent back across the water. One fight, two countries, one song carrying it.
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