In high school it's typical for some students to form bands, coming together to make music and sing their favourite songs with their friends.

The students at Balga Senior High School are going further and using music to celebrate their right to be proud on their Noongar Boodja (Noongar Country).

Within the music program at Balga Senior High School, the Proud Noongar Boys were formed, born out of a set of music workshops assisted by West Australia Music.

Head of music and teacher Nik Culum wanted a local Aboriginal artist to come to the school to talk to students about music.

When Nyoongar and Wongi rapper Flewnt came into the picture, the students started to put together lyrics, melodies and tunes with his and Culum's help.

Together they wrote and sung their first song, Flip The Shame.

Flewnt said the song's meaning and lyrics just came together as they all got to know one another.

"As I got to know them (the students), I knew they had these very strong cultural connections, and I wanted the music to truly reflect that," he said.

"And that was kind of my role as an artist coming into the school was to sort of help them form the lyrics and being able to look at it in a way that works well with the hip hop style that we were working with.

"A lot of the ideas the mob already had, I was just sort of refining it. And even the stuff we had written was just us yarning."

Two of the students singing the main vocals on Flip The Shame are Ryan and Domain Culbong.

Domain said they wanted to write a song about standing proud.

"When we first came together we thought, why does everyone have to feel shame you know?" he said.

"We can all be proud like Mitch Tambo was proud on Australia's Got Talent.

"So we thought, why can't we be proud like him? And flip the shame."

After producing Flip The Shame in 2021, the students part of Proud Noongar Boys recorded their new track, Get UP Stand Up Show UP in 2022 dedicated to the NAIDOC theme of the year.

This track won them the Unearthed High Indigenous Imitative in 2022.

Flewnt said what is better than creating the music is seeing the students mature as young adults.

"One of the greatest parts of writing these songs with these young mob is the pride that I could see that they felt after they achieved," he said.

"Watching it all come together and feeling as though it was led by them, that sense of achievement is so much more deeper and so much more important because that is really something that they grew.

"Something that they nurtured to become what it is."

Domain said working on the song and learning more about music has inspired him to look at music as a future profession.

"I really want to write more songs and keep performing and talking about my culture," he said.

"The main three people who inspired me to make these songs were Mitch Tambo, Baker Boy and Flewnt.

"All of them inspired me to write more songs and that you can lift your head up in life."