‘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

· Jan 18, 2020 · 12:30 pm

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.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 29, 2019 · 05:00 pm

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.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 21, 2019 · 08:25 pm

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

· Feb 16, 2019 · 09:15 am

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.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 12, 2019 · 07:05 pm

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’.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 06, 2018 · 09:31 am

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.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 09, 2017 · 08:00 pm

How hip-hop in local languages brought Mumbai rappers into the mainstream

Is 2016 the year of desi hip-hop?

Aakash Karkare

· Oct 09, 2016 · 11:30 am

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."

Scroll Staff

· Sep 14, 2016 · 02:00 pm

Is Yo Yo Honey Singh going the Himesh Reshammiya way?

The rapper is headlining a Punjabi film ‘Zorawar’.

Manish Gaekwad

· May 03, 2016 · 01:30 pm

Amit Shah's visit to Shillong inspires protest rap video

A group of musicians from Meghalaya are putting the politics back into the country’s indie music scene.

Sibi Arasu

· Jun 08, 2015 · 01:30 pm

The voice of an outsider: Chee Malabar's rap songs

An Indo-American rapper tells his stories in song.

Chee Malabar

· Mar 06, 2014 · 07:03 am