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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Does US have evidence of aliens visiting us on Earth?
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Watch: Madhuri Dixit does the viral ‘My Money Don’t Jiggle Jiggle’ dance trend on Instagram
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Gunman kills 19 children, two adults in Texas school
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Caste threads are spawning deadly conflicts in Tamil Nadu schools
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Watch: ‘The Gray Man’ stars Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Dhanush and Ana de Armas
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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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‘We will stop you!’: Activists sing to disrupt oil company Shell’s annual general meeting in London
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Watch: New York City removes its last public telephone booth, an era comes to an end
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Watch: Volcano Mount Etna erupts, spewing lava into the sky and down the mountain
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Watch: Texas lawmaker suggests arming teachers, police presence in schools to prevent shootings
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‘Manchester United are rubbish’: BBC trainee learning how to write ticker text makes it to live TV
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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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Watch: ‘The Gray Man’ stars Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Dhanush and Ana de Armas
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‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ trailer: Christian Bale joins Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman
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‘Zollywood’ trailer: Marathi film about Vidarbha’s theatre scene is coming soon to cinemas
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Watch: Teaser of new ‘Mission: Impossible’ film ‘Dead Reckoning Part One’ is out
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The highs and highs of Jatin-Lalit’s Hindi film soundtracks
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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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Cricket: India to face England, Australia away as ICC announces match-ups for Women’s Championship
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Indian football: Sethu FC take on defending champions Gokulam Kerala in IWL final
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‘Devasted doesn’t begin to describe it’: Steve Kerr, LeBron James react to Texas school shooting
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Football: Chelsea sale gets approval from UK government
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HS Prannoy: Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high