360 is an Australian hip hop

Australian hip hop

Australian hip hop music began in the early 1980s; originally it was primarily influenced by hip hop music and culture imported via radio and television from the United States of America. However, since the 1990s, a distinctive local style has developed. Australian hip hop is an underground music...

 artist from Melbourne.

Biography

360 (born Matt Colwell) attended Luther College

Luther College (Victoria)

Luther College is a co-educational independent secondary school of the Lutheran Church of Australia located in the outer-eastern suburb of Croydon in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It maintains a close relationship with the Outer Eastern Lutheran Church parish of the Lutheran Church of Australia,...

 in Melbourne's Eastern suburbs. In February 2007 he signed to Soulmate Records, and released his debut album, What You See Is What You Get, in March 2008. 360 also achieved a degree of notoriety with the release of a music video for "Mamma Mia", which featured desire for Bec Hewitt

Bec Hewitt

Rebecca June "Bec" Hewitt is an Australian actress and singer. From 1998 to 2005, Hewitt played Hayley Smith Lawson on the soap opera Home and Away. As Bec Cartwright, Hewitt released an eponymous pop music album in 2002...

 and his disdain for her husband, Lleyton Hewitt

Lleyton Hewitt

Lleyton Glynn Hewitt born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world no. 1.In 2000, Hewitt had won ATP titles on all three major surfaces and reached one final on carpet. By 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked no. 1 at the age of 20...

.

360 owes much of his popularity to rap battling in both Australia and overseas. He plays live shows and creates many collaborative works with Pez

Pez (musician)

Pez is a Hip-hop MC from Melbourne, Australia. He attended Kew High School in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. His debut album, A Mind Of My Own peaked at #19 on the ARIA Urban album charts.-Biography:...

 as part of the duo Forthwrite. In 2010, 360 started a phenomenon in the Australian hip-hop scene known as Rapper Tag on YouTube, which has gained a large following. 360 featured on Pez's single, "The Festival Song", which peaked at #14 on the Australian artists singles chart. In a video interview with Sam James, Danny Haneman and Aisha Glen for Peak Street Magazine, 360 described his musical style as "there's some pop influences, electro and dubstep".

In 2011, 360's single "Just Got Started" entered at #74, and peaked at number 30 on the ARIA Urban Singles Chart

Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...

. His second album, Falling & Flying, was released on the 30th of September 2011, topping the Australian iTunes charts for 3 weeks.

Albums

• What You See Is What You Get – Soulmate (SOLM8002) (22 March 2008)
• Falling & Flying – Soulmate (30 September 2011) #4 AUS

Singles

• "Just Got Started" – Soulmate (SOLM8005S1) (17 December 2010) #74 AUS
• "Throw It Away" – Soulmate (2011) #99 AUS
• "Killer" (September 2011) #87 AUS
• "Boys Like You" (featuring Gossling) (October 2011) #47 AUS

Mixtapes

• The Forthwrite Mixtape (2008)
• What You Hear Is What You Buy (2008)
• Please Be Seated 1 (2010)
• Please Be Seated 2 (2010)
• Stand the Fuck Up (2011)

External links

• Official 360 website