Wildlands Comp Winner, Meet WA Prodigy Zafty

2024 Unearthed High finalist and WA Wildlands Festival competition winner, this week’s Feature Artist is bringing heat to the country’s west. “I can’t believe I won… I’m just gonna play and rap my heart out” Loading It’s no surprise that hip-hop innovators like Tyler, The Creator, redveil, Vince Staples, Isaiah Rashad, Knucks, Aitch, Smino, Saba, Doechiiii and Samara Cyn fall under Zafty’s list of inspirations. “There was this kid like Ben or something, he used to rap and everyone was like, damn he’s so good, and in my head I was like… I’m better than this dude.” Very quickly recording freestyles to generic online beats, it wasn’t long before his music started having an impact on his local community and he began building on that momentum. Using the triple j Unearthed website as a strong source of creativity, he unpacks how he’s built his musical community through the platform… “There was this artist from Perth called benison, I love his music.