Briggs is a Yorta Yorta man and Australian rapper, lyricist, hip-hop artist, writer, presenter, author and actor.

Briggs became well-known as a solo rapper before co-founding the hip-hop duo A.B. Original in 2016. In the live arena, he has supported international artists such as 50 Cent, Ice Cube, Ice-T and KRS-One and worked with The Hilltop Hoods, Midnight Oil, Paul Kelly and Henry Rollins.

A.B. Original were crowned APRA’s 2018 Songwriters of the Year and in 2017 won the ARIAs for Best Independent Release and Best Urban Album and Triple J’s J Award for Album of the Year for their album Reclaim Australia. In 2022 the duo released their first new music in almost four years with the track ‘King Billy Cokebottle’ and toured the country with Hilltop Hoods.

Extending his career beyond music, Briggs has written on the Netflix animated series Disenchantment from the creators of The Simpsons and Futurama, wrote and performed in all three seasons of the sketch comedy series Black Comedy, played the role of Maliyan in the drama series Cleverman, was a regular on the Stan original series The Other Guy, appeared as a guest on Get Krack!n and is a regular on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering as well as The Yearly with Charlie Pickering. More recently, Briggs voiced the character of Adam in season 7 of Netflix’s Big Mouth and starred as Alex Bermuda in Boy Swallows Universe.

Briggs is the chair of the Adam Briggs Foundation, a First Nations-led charity organisation that plays a vital role in filling the gap of representation and skills-based development in the creative industries, for First Nations people.

In 2017, Briggs was named the GQ Agenda Setter of the Year.

Briggs released his first children’s book, Our Home, Our Heartbeat in 2020.

Awards

Winner Film Clip Of The Year – Life Is Incredible, National Indigenous Music Awards 2019
Winner Artist Of The Year – National NAIDOC Awards 2018
Winner Songwriter Of The Year (A.B. Original) APRA AMCOS Awards 2018
Winner Best TV theme Award for “Here” featuring Caiti Baker – APRA AMCOS Screen Music Awards 2017
Winner Breakthrough Independent Artist Of The Year, Best Independent Artist, Best Independent Single, Best Independent Album or EP, Best Independent Hip Hop Album (A.B. Original) – AIR Awards 2017
Winner Best Urban and Best Independent Release (A.B. Original) – ARIA Awards 2017
Winner Best Album (A.B. Original) – Australian Music Prize, 2017
Winner Agenda Setter Of The Year – GQ Men of the Year Awards 2017
Winner Song Of The Year – The Children Came Back, National Indigenous Music Awards 2016
Winner Song Of The Year – Bad Apples, National Indigenous Music Awards 2015
Winner Album Of The Year – Sheplife, National Indigenous Music Awards 2015
Winner Best Music Video – Bad Apples, National Indigenous Music Awards 2015
Winner Best New Talent – National Indigenous Music Awards 2014
Winner Best Hip Hop Album – Sheplife, Music Victoria Awards 2014

Television

BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE
Role: Alex Bermuda. Dir: Various, Brouhaha Entertainment 2024
BIG MOUTH (Season 7)
Role: Adam. Dir: Alex Salyer, Brutis Pink / Titmouse / Danger Goldberg Productions 2023
SPICKS & SPECKS (Series 12)
Guest. ABC TV 2022
HAVE YOU BEEN PAYING ATTENTION? (Series 10)
Guest Quizmaster. Working Dog 2022
THE WEEKLY WITH CHARLIE PICKERING (Series 6)
Presenter. Dir: Jon Olb, ABC TV 2020
HUMP WALLACE (TV Movie)
Role: Principal Grumps. Dir: Aaron McLachlan & Campbell Walker, Struthless Studios 2021
THE WEEKLY WITH CHARLIE PICKERING (Series 5)
Presenter. Dir: Jon Olb, ABC TV 2019
GET KRACK!N (Series 2)
Role: Bekjut. Dir: Hayden Guppy, Katering Productions 2019
SPICKS & SPECKS REUNION SPECIAL
Guest. Dir: Jon Olb, ABC TV 2018
BLACK COMEDY (Series 3)                                
Role: Various Characters. Dir: Beck Cole & Steven McGregor, Scarlett Pictures 2018
THE WEEKLY WITH CHARLIE PICKERING (Series 4)
Presenter. Dir: Jon Olb, ABC TV 2018
TOUGH CONVERSATIONS (Documentary)
Himself. Dir: Christopher Nelius, FINCH 2018
GET KRACK!N (Series 1)
Role: Bekjut. Dir: Hayden Guppy, Katering Productions 2017
THE OTHER GUY
Role: Dog Murphy. Dir: Kacie Anning, Entertainment One Television 2017
THE WEEKLY WITH CHARLIE PICKERING (Series 3)
Writer / Presenter. Dir: Jon Olb, ABC TV 2017
CLEVERMAN
Role: Maliyan. Dir: Wayne Blair & Leah Purcell, ABC TV 2016
BLACK COMEDY (Series 2)
Writer / Various Characters. Dir: Beck Cole & Erica Glynn, Scarlett Pictures 2016

Film

SPIN OUT
Role: Jock the barman. Dir: Tim Ferguson & Marc Gracie, Sony Pictures 2016
HILLTOP HOODS: RATTLING THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM (Short)
Himself. Dir: Selina Miles, 2012

Writing

DISENCHANTMENT (Created by Matt Groening)
The Ululu Company / Netflix (Series 2 & 4, 2019-2022)
HUMP WALLACE (TV Movie)
Struthless Studios (2021)
OUR HOME, OUR HEARTBEAT (Children’s Book)
Hardie Grant (2020)
THE WEEKLY WITH CHARLIE PICKERING
Thinkative TV / ABC (Series 2-5, 2016-2019)
GET KRACK!N
Katering Productions / ABC (Series 1, 2017)
BLACK COMEDY
Scarlett Pictures / ABC (Series 2-3, 2016-2018)