Desi Hip Hop
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Watch: DIVINE questions notions of virtue and vice in new song ‘Punya Paap’
iLL Wayno is credited as producer and co-composer, while Abhay Raha has directed the video.
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Watch: Rishi Rich and rapper Yashraj’s ‘Kanipatu’ has a funky animated video
Animator Hariom Verma’s video communicates rapper Yashraj Mehra’s themes of the ‘adivasi’ ways of people in ‘jungle’-like Mumbai city.
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Watch: New Bohemia single 'Phir Ek Tera Pyar' blends hip-hop and EDM
Devika Chawla provides additional vocals.
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Trending
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Thriller: A serial killer is on the loose, murdering India’s famous nuclear scientists one by one
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These innovations have made Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba in Murthal the truck drivers’ favourite since 1967
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The Man, the Machine: Merab Dvalishvili in Mumbai
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Memoir: A journalist remembers the 1960s and how the Naxal movement was portrayed in books and films
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How a Colombian city’s ‘green corridors’ turned the clock back on global warming
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‘What I wrote in my song is happening now’: Naezy on album ‘Maghreb’ and CAA-NRC protests
‘Maghreb’ is the debut album of Mumbai rapper Naved Shaikh aka Naezy.
Devarsi Ghosh
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Watch: Rapper Kaam Bhaari hits back at music moguls in ‘Zeher’ (with Ranveer Singh for company)
The single has been released by IncInk, which is Ranveer Singh’s newly launched record label.
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Song check: Netflix’s ‘The Umbrella Academy’ brings more desi hip-hop with ‘Ajoobe’ by 7 Bantaiz
The multi-lingual rap song has been created to promote the superhero-themed Netflix series in India.
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Video
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Watch: Stunning Northern Lights spotted in unexpected places around the world
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Watch: Students in Pakistan enact moments from Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding event
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‘Hind’s Hall’: Rapper Macklemore releases poignant song in support of Palestine, US campus protests
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Video Interview: In conversation with Naved Shaikh aka Naezy, the OG ‘Gully Boy’
The 25-year-old rapper spoke to Scroll.in about hip-hop culture, the importance of ‘conscious rap’ in the burgeoning music scene and representing ‘Bombay 70’.
Shibika Suresh
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Watch: Hip-hop star Naezy’s autobiographical ‘Bombay 70’ chronicles his early days
Zoya Akhtar’s Bollywood take on Naezy and the Mumbai hip-hop story, ‘Gully Boy’, starring Ranveer Singh, is about to be released.
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Watch: Mumbai’s gully rap (and Divine) get dissed in ‘Gully Mein Apne Kutta Bhi Sher Hai’
The group says that it is spicing things up in the Indian hip-hop scene that has become ‘stagnantly boring’.
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The Reel
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‘Murder in Mahim’ review: A crime as unjust as wrongful death
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‘Srikanth’ review: An inspiring tale of remarkable achievement
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‘The Boy and the Heron’ review: An animation legend rolls out enchantment and emotional resonance
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Watch: Politics, ambition and crime in Vasantha Balan’s ‘Thalaimai Seyalagam’
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The enduring influence of the fantasy film ‘Pathala Bhairavi’ on Telugu cinema
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Watch: This hip-hop track from Mumbai fuses rap and Carnatic music (and explores Dharavi too)
The first music video of Bandish projekt's new EP features collaborations with rappers MC Mawali and MC Tod Fod.
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How hip-hop in local languages brought Mumbai rappers into the mainstream
Is 2016 the year of desi hip-hop?
Aakash Karkare
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Watch: How Dharavi has become the hotbed of Mumbai's hip hop scene
"People who live in Dharavi are keeping it real. In hip hop, in real life."
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The Field
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IPL 2024: Kolkata defeat Mumbai in rain-affected match to become first team to qualify for play-offs
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Cricket: England pacer James Anderson to retire after Lord’s Test against West Indies
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The Man, the Machine: Merab Dvalishvili in Mumbai
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Wrestling, World Olympic Qualifiers: Nisha Dahiya wins Paris quota in women’s 68kg
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Athletics, Doha Diamond League 2024: Neeraj Chopra shows a spark in season opener