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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India is now the world’s most populous nation – but there’s no reason to be worried
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Journalist Nidhi Razdan quits NDTV
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Budget 2023: Why FM Nirmala Sitharaman is incentivising a shift to the new tax regime
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Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II was the people’s emperor – courteous to his own and the British
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Aaj Tak says its anchors will report on Budget 2023 suspended from a tower at a height of 160 feet
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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: Bystander, police officer rescue driver moments before crashed car bursts into flames
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Watch: Bengaluru waiter effortlessly carries 16 plates of dosa, serves several customers at once
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Watch: Pakistani TV anchors are stunned by Athiya Shetty and KL Rahul’s lavish wedding gifts
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Watch: McDonald’s first automated outlet is open for business in Texas, US
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Watch: Woman caught on camera shoplifting in a bookstore in Jalandhar, Punjab
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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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‘Lost’ trailer: Yami Gautam Dhar plays a journalist investigating a disappearance
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‘The Romantics’ trailer: Docuseries pays tribute to the Yash Raj Films legacy
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Film ‘Follower’ crawls inside the mind of a social media troll in Belgaum
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Shah Rukh Khan on ‘Pathaan’ success: ‘Have forgotten those four years in the last four days’
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In Ranjan Palit’s new film, a ‘watchdog society’ filled with persecution and paranoia
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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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IND vs NZ: Reactions as Shubman Gill scores his first T20I century – ‘Unreal, smooth, clean striking
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IND vs NZ: India go in with Umran Malik over Yuzvendra Chahal in series decider at Ahmedabad
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Watch: Sachin Tendulkar’s speech as Shafali Verma-led U19 World Cup winning-team is felicitated
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Cricket: Nepal board lifts suspension on Sandeep Lamichhane
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Cricket: Suryakumar Yadav retains top spot in ICC T20I rankings for batters