“Rattling the Keys to the Kingdom” by Hilltop Hoods

"Rattling the Keys to the Kingdom" was the fourth and last single from Drinking From the Sun, Hilltop Hoods' sixth studio album, arriving in September 2012 and entering the ARIA singles chart at number 64. It's a victory lap by design, a song about the group conquering Australian hip-hop, and as the country's most successful rap crew and the first to crack the mainstream, they'd earned it.

Suffa produced, DJ Debris works the turntables, and the writing credit lines up Barry Francis, Matt Lambert and Daniel Smith with Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn and Al Jackson, Jr. The video turns the boast into a roll call: Australian rapper after Australian rapper takes a turn on the track against a black backdrop, name on screen, cut with the Hoods rapping before a wall of graffiti.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.