I ask what their parents think of them listening to rap. “My mum thinks it’s violent, but she doesn’t have any idea. Anyway, she listened to Eminem, I mean as if she can talk – he’s cancelled,” laughs the young Wollongong local. This comment explains a lot about the popularity of Chillinit and his grassroots climb to fame. But first, the show. Chillinit bursts onto the stage, spitting, jumping and growling his track and pulsating with energy as the crowd erupts. Like Rihanna’s Navy, Beyoncé’s Beyhive and Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters, Chillinit also has a moniker for his fan base: 420Fam. Throughout the set, they’re singing the words to his tracks, aggressively opening a mosh pit and chanting: “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. Oi, oi, oi”. His lyrics cover strippers, marijuana, sex, fashion, money and family, and at the end of his set, Chillinit brings out his mum, much to the delight of the 420Fam. He tells us later that she’d never been up there with him before.