“I just turn a prince to a king,” announces rapper Danzal Baker on his chant-along 2024 single “KING.” That’s his cheeky way of telling us that after a two-year gap in Baker Boy releases, he has leveled up from his previous title of “Fresh Prince of Arnhem Land,” referring to his home region of Australia’s Northern Territory. The track also reminds us just how well Baker blends the flashy mechanics of classic US rap with his cultural touchstones as a Yolngu man, rapping in Yolngu, English, and his mother’s Burarra language. Baker has always straddled multiple worlds with breezy confidence, as broadcast on his platinum-certified 2019 hit “Cool as Hell” and right across his 2021 debut album Gela, which rewarded that swagger with five ARIA Awards. But Baker still makes plenty of time to share the spotlight, trading romantic verses with G Flip on 2021’s funky “My Mind” and enlisting Powderfinger’s Bernard Fanning for his 2022 interpolation of Fanning’s solo hit “Wish You Well,” And on 2020’s “Better Days,” he teams up with both Dallas Woods and Sampa the Great for a powerful statement about asserting a brighter future for Australia’s people of color.