Hip-hop in India: How global music culture took roots

Hip-hop began in 1973 Bronx as a voice against racism and inequality, rooted in DJing, rapping, dance, and graffiti. It later ...
Indulgexpress

Rapper Brodha on his latest album Underrated, and his take on hip-hop, culture and power

Popular rapper Brodha V (Vighnesh Shivanand) has just dropped his high-energy album Underrated, in which he does something ...
LAist

As 'Gully Boy' Inches Indian Hip-Hop Into The Mainstream, Its Underground Soldiers On

Gully Boy, a film that follows the rags-to-riches tale of a rapper pursuing his dreams, has swept South Asia and its diaspora into a fervor, helping bring Indian hip-hop into the mainstream ...

FA9LA rapper Flipperachi confirms India tour plans, says dates to be announced soon

Bahraini rap artist Flipperachi, aka Hussam Aseem, rose to international prominence after his track Fa9LA went viral when it ...
inforum

Rapping out of the box: American Indian artists join in hip-hop event

Amer Ahmed, a longtime board member at the Hip Hop Congress, found the concept of American Indian hip-hop strikingly unfamiliar. Last November, Ahmed, director of intercultural affairs at Concordia ...
The Diplomat

‘Conscious’ Hip-Hop Resurfaces in India-Administered Kashmir

Ahmer Javaid (left) and Arif Farooq alias Qafilah (right) are among the rappers making up the hip-hop community of Kashmir. Credit: Najmus Saqib Subscribe for ads-free reading They may look like any ...
Indulgexpress

Rapper Flipperachi confirms India tour after Dhurandhar's FA9LA goes viral

Popular Bahraini rapper Flipperachi, born Hussam Aseem became an overnight sensation and household name in India after his ...

Rapper DIVINE premieres 5th studio album 'Walking On Water' celebrating a decade completion in Indian hip-hop

The album positions DIVINE not only as India’s leading hip-hop export, but as a cultural vanguard shaping one of the world’s ...
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Gangster tells BBC why India's biggest hip-hop star was murdered

It was a killing that shocked India: Punjabi hip-hop star Sidhu Moose Wala shot dead through the windscreen of his car by hired gunmen. Within hours, a Punjabi gangster named Goldy Brar had used ...
NPR

As 'Gully Boy' Inches Indian Hip-Hop Into The Mainstream, Its Underground Soldiers On

Over the last few years, underground Indian hip-hop has become bold and assertive, deviating away from the party anthems that have dominated and driven the genre towards the mainstream. The genre is ...
WUNC

As 'Gully Boy' Inches Indian Hip-Hop Into The Mainstream, Its Underground Soldiers On

Ranveer Singh, one of the stars of the recent film Gully Boy, at a publicity event in Mumbai on Jan. 9, 2019. The film has put a spotlight on Indian hip-hop, to the chagrin of some working in it. Over ...
Colorado Public Radio

As ‘Gully Boy’ Inches Indian Hip-Hop Into The Mainstream, Its Underground Soldiers On

Gully Boy, a film that follows the rags-to-riches tale of a rapper pursuing his dreams, has swept South Asia and its diaspora into a fervor, helping bring Indian hip-hop into the mainstream ...