Adelaide emcee Everyday talks politics, equal rights and his debut album, ‘Equality’.

A drummer in a hardcore band seems like a funny way for a hip hop artist to break into the business, but that's how Everyday got his start, playing in his best friend’s band. However, it didn't feel right playing hardcore when it was hip hop that was playing through his headphones.

“With a lot of hardcore music, the vocals are lot more distorted and a lot of the time the lyrics go over the head whereas I think with hip hop, it's mainly the lyrics. I think hip hop allows you to get the message across that you want to say while still giving you a beat you can nod your head to.”

Everyday was raised in a family where music was always an integral part of the household. It was a childhood filled with fond memories of staying up all night singing and dancing to 'Saturday Night Jukebox'.

“There's a couple of tracks on the album, my childhood is reflected through them but a lot of it is pretty politically driven as well.”

Everyday's 'Equality' has been gaining a lot of traction as intelligent hip hop that touches on issues of equal rights, political agendas and power tactics.

“It was more about touching on the right now, what's going on in the world. It's 2013 and we're still fighting the same bullshit fights. This album was purely to put that out there, you know, my views on how have we not progressed past things like same-sex marriage and white versus black. As soon as we can push past that we can start living more in peace.”

Usually very collaborative, Everyday chose to go solo on this record to release all of the ideas he had building up.

“I had a lot of stuff I wanted to get out and when I'm inspired and driven and want to get something done I get a bit obsessive and that's all that I want to do.”

It wasn't long until he was back to collaborating with his mates though; he recently released a limited edition 7” 'Death From Above' featuring Realizm and Tomorrow who also collaborated on tracks for 'Equality'.

‘Equality’ and ‘Death From Above’ are both available now.