3 The Hard Way was first played on NTS on 5 March 2021. Songs played include Hip Hop Holiday.

An early hip-hop group from New Zealand. From the city's Western Suburbs, they, as a trio, had NZ's first local hip hop hit with Hip Hop Holiday in the early 1990s. The single was triple platinum and they repeated the feat ten years, now as a duo, later when It's On went to number one in 2003.