Teether & Kuya Neil

When rapper Teether & producer Kuya Neil began to collaborate in late 2020, two powerful forces in the Australian rap underground came together to create something rare and special. They release their debut album YEARN IV in 2025 after two acclaimed mixtapes.

The duo signed to Chapter Music and released 8 song mixtape GLYPH in November 2021, with airplay across Triple J, NTS and Dublab, plus writeups via Brooklyn Vegan, NME, Acclaim and elsewhere. Four songs from GLYPH were also featured in the Netflix hit series Heart Break High.

Second mixtape STRESSOR came out in Feb 2023. It was a feature album across Australian community radio, charted in the Australian independent top 10 and made it into end of year best of lists for The Guardian, Rolling Stone and NME Australia. Stressor was nominated for Best Hip Hop Album at the 2024 Australian Independent Record Label Awards.

Teether & Kuya have performed at Australian and New Zealand festivals such as Bigsound, Melbourne Music Week, RISING, Meadow, Vivid Sydney and Camp A Low Hum, supporting the likes of MC Yallah & Debmaster, Shabazz Palaces, They Hate Change, Stas Thee Boss and RP Boo. Teether supported Armand Hammer around Australia in March 2023, and played with Kim Gordon in 2024. 

Based in London as of mid 2024, Teether has a deep dive catalogue of solo releases to his name, many released via the X Amount collective of which he was a founding member. He has also collaborated with Billy Woods, Don Glori, Agung Mango, Two Birds and Nikodimos. Teether has even featured on a single by punk band Dregg released by the legendary Epitaph Records.

Kuya Neil is just as prolific. He is the founder of Australian creative collective content.net.au , and has produced tracks for the likes of Mirasia, Bayang the Bushranger, Papaphilia and ZK King. He has released tracks on UK labels Chinabot and Moveltraxx and toured South East Asia.

Together, Teether & Kuya Neil make future-focused rap informed by everything from experimental sound art to modern club styles like footwork, gqom and bass music. Teether’s nonchalant but vivid words infuse Neil’s hyper-modern production.

“Two of the country’s most forward-thinking artists” – Acclaim Magazine
“A powder keg of bangers primed to shake the rat race to its core” – The Guardian Australia