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May 13, 2026 59 mins
May 13, 2026 — “The State of the South Asian Hip Hop Space”
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Episode 531

ON TODAY’S SHOW
Sammy Chand’s Wednesday show centers on a state-of-the-union conversation about South Asian hip-hop — and who really built the global movement. The thesis: Mumbai and Delhi’s scenes have mass, but the Punjabi machine kept the pipeline hot, and now the breakouts — Hanumankind at the front of the line — are going global entirely on their own terms. The diaspora conversation, Sammy argues, still under-tells the story. The hour is structured like a map. Mumbai opens the show with Yashraj’s Mujhe Ye Gaana Pasand Hai, setting the tone for where the new wave lives. Delhi carries the middle run through Seedhe Maut’s Pickup, Jadu by Fateh Doe and Mickey Singh, Uniyal’s Vartmaan, and Total by Rawmee Hooda — a sequence built to show the underground becoming the mainstream. Punjab and diaspora bridges arrive with Sidhu Moosewala and The Kidd on The Last Ride, Mani Longia and Fateh Doe on Hot Boys, and Sultan’s Challa. At 40:16, Sammy sits down with E The First for a 6-minute feature interview on the state of the South Asian hip-hop space — who’s doing the work, who’s getting the credit, and what the diaspora conversation keeps missing. The final stretch lands the thesis: Rawal’s Eiffel Tower, Doyeeta Das Gupta’s Artist Spotlight, Hanumankind’s Big Dawgs, and Karmacy’s Music Knows closing the hour with the argument already made. Plus Dr. Roy stops by with Word On The Avenue, DJ Geet drops into Dhurandhar, and Doyeeta Das Gupta delivers the Artist Spotlight.

FEATURED MUSIC Mujhe Ye Gaana Pasand Hai — Yashraj Pickup — Seedhe Maut Jadu — Fateh Doe, Mickey Singh Hot Boys — Mani Longia, Fateh Doe Vartmaan — Uniyal Total — Rawmee Hooda Challa — Sultan The Last Ride — Sidhu Moosewala, The Kidd Mudda — Seedhe Maut, Yung Sammy Times — Has, Steel Banglez, Sid Sriram Vibrate — KRNA, Badshah Dhurandhar (Title Track) — Sachdev, Hanumankind, Jasmine Sandlas Eiffel Tower — Rawal Big Dawgs — Hanumankind Music Knows — Karmacy

FEATURED GUESTS & CONTRIBUTORS E The First — FEATURE INTERVIEW. Conversation on the current state of South Asian hip-hop, the people doing the foundational work, and the global direction of the movement Dr. Roy — Word On The Avenue, daily Rukus Avenue Radio All-Stars segment DJ Geet — Drops into Dhurandhar for a Bollywood-meets-hip-hop transition moment Doyeeta Das Gupta — Artist Spotlight, daily Rukus Avenue Radio All-Stars segment

RUNDOWN 0:00 Sammy Opening 2:30 Mujhe Ye Gaana Pasand Hai — Yashraj 5:06 Sammy 5:30 Pickup — Seedhe Maut 7:52 Sammy 8:12 Jadu — Fateh Doe, Mickey Singh 10:56 Sammy 11:27 Dr. Roy delivers Word On The Avenue 12:47 Sammy 13:00 Hot Boys — Mani Longia, Fateh Doe 15:22 Sammy 15:53 Vartmaan — Uniyal 17:22 Sammy 17:50 Total — Rawmee Hooda 20:59 Sammy 21:31 Challa — Sultan 23:47 Sammy 24:03 The Last Ride — Sidhu Moosewala, The Kidd 27:58 Sammy 28:56 Mudda — Seedhe Maut, Yung Sammy 30:54 Sammy 31:13 Times — Has, Steel Banglez, Sid Sriram 34:05 Sammy 34:38 Vibrate — KRNA, Badshah 37:22 Sammy 37:41 DJ Geet drops into Dhurandhar 37:58 Dhurandhar (Title Track) — Sachdev, Hanumankind, Jasmine Sandlas 40:16 Sammy Chand interviews E The First 46:22 Eiffel Tower — Rawal 48:32 Sammy 48:52 Doyeeta Das Gupta Artist Spotlight 49:50 Big Dawgs — Hanumankind 51:57 Sammy Closing Remarks 53:52 Music Knows — Karmacy

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
South Asian music and cultures can be.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Found around the world.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
We tracked down the best and presented here for you
on Rugas Avenue Radio.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Okay it well, not everybody, it's your boys, buddy, and
you're listening to The Bridge hosted by Sammy Jun on
Ruckus Avenue Radio.

Speaker 5 (00:22):
Yo, this is still bangles and you're listening to The
Bridge with Sammy Chan only on Ruckus Avenue Radio.

Speaker 6 (00:29):
Yeah, yeah, what's up?

Speaker 7 (00:36):
What's up everybody?

Speaker 8 (00:40):
I hope you guys are well. My name is Sammy
John and welcome everybody to a Wednesday, May thirteenth edition
of The Bridge and certifiably the most entertaining hour in
all of South Asian music is locked and loaded for
you guys today and with me, I bring a suitcase

(01:03):
of music for you guys, and yeah, it smells like India.
You don't want to give a shout out to Kunwar
Gil yesterday for stopping by the show, and I so
deliberately proclaimed him as ground zero of the Punjabi hip

(01:26):
hop movement simply because he does not get his flowers.
And as the florist that you guys know me to be,
I had to stop and make sure that people know
who he is and true of the two of us
started the genre by collaborating together on a song called

(01:48):
but he really deserves that Mantle. I was just a producer,
great stuff. And today what we'll do is we'll shine
a light on the Indian hip hop space. So you're
in for some really cool Indian hip hop today. You
picked a good one. We'll be joined today by the

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First and and I will talk about the space a
little bit. We'll be joined by d J get as well.
We'll be joined by the Ruckusapne Radio All Stars. We'll
be joined by and Doctor Roy in the fun Hour ahead.
Let's start this party started with an artist named yash Raj.

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The song is called Yea.

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It's one of the top songs right now on the
bridge when it comes to hip hop and you're about
to get an hour of some of my favorites in
this space. That's yes, roj Ye Gaps on the here.
This next one collaboration between see them all, Oh G Lucifer.
The track is called pick Up. You can turn this

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one up loud.

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pick up a bit and a spup be fucked my
shirt up mange diket, but he does stingy shot.

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My last bit the hair lash over the hash supping
Dad and I can massa. You have massa, but I
had gap ye hash.

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the black pick.

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A pick up, Apa calling child, I had chip the
ya menchipellin, but I mean set up the commercy, get
get up game.

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and have made.

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deeper seven figure come a hea w tension like.

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It's a stick up.

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Matter from.

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digging deeper seven figure.

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menchpellan But I mean we can pick up passive and
set up mange ticket, but those Spanish magick set up commerc.

Speaker 8 (07:50):
I don't think there's another group out there that's really
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built from ground up when they built their brand, they
really did, and they started out there on the Zadi
records and have now gone on to go independent and
really leave it lasting mark this hardest name is.

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Like that diamond.

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I got you, baby girl, you're flowerless. I cut the
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Sasaji. Then I made you my target.

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You can never fake it.

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So get them.

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You keep me on my toes.

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The gunning, the cogging gaddy I'm taking they.

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Didn't have a dama.

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Speaker 8 (10:56):
Good to have Mickey back in the scene again. I
think he needed to go through a little bit of
a renaissance, as they say. And that's his collaboration with
Fute Doe. Fute is one of our dear friends and
was the topic of the discussion yesterday that we had
with Knowar Gill over their brand new song called from
the Bay, and that's one of Fay's latest songs as well.

(11:19):
Now let's bring in our own Doctor Roy to this show,
who brings you a daily Word on the Avenue. How
are you today, Doctor Roy?

Speaker 22 (11:28):
Hey guys, this is Doctor Roy with today's Word on
the Avenue, bringing you the exclusive scoop of the Indians
at the met Gala.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Twenty twenty six.

Speaker 22 (11:37):
In Film and TV News, Anogabor turnheads at the met
Gala by reimagining Muchnoubai's iconic painting from his film Welcome
into a co tour statement piece. The Nostalgic fashion tribute
quickly went viral for its hilarious reference and pop culture icons,
with fans celebrating the blend of Bollywood humor and high
fashion on a global stage in media news. From the

(11:59):
hand carpet of niet by Extra Weave Beneath the Star's
feet to Garan Johor's Raja Rob Verman Sparred Kotour by
Manish Blotra, the met Gala became a global showcase for
Indian artistry, blending sustainability, heritage and hope. Couteur Garyle's craftsmanship
and India's textile traditions made a powerful statement on fashion's
biggest stage and event news.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
The Ambani family.

Speaker 22 (12:22):
Hosted a lavish dinner in Venice celebrating India's National pavilion
at the sixty first International Art Exhibition, blending Indian heritage
with Italian sophistication.

Speaker 13 (12:31):
Featuring an elaborate Indo.

Speaker 22 (12:32):
Italian menu from jomneger mango relish to railway station chicken
curry and saffron below, the evening became a showcase of
India's culinary artistry, cultural diplomacy, and growing global influence. That's
it for today's word on the Avenue until.

Speaker 8 (12:47):
Next time, Thanks so much, doctor Roy. And as I
was talking about Foe, I was like, you know what,
there's another song of his that I really love and
that you guys know me to love. It's his collaboration
with money long Gia. It's called hot boy jar.

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Speaker 8 (13:35):
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Speaker 2 (13:37):
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Speaker 10 (13:37):
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yard all say broad, get yady up upon even time
to part.

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Sorry he had to give cat.

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you're on the speed die.

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You for the money.

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Then who may actually.

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Later people level labels.

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Good how you be? He a beat, hell of a
beat good song right there, money long Gia. The song
is called hot Boys. This next track We've got for you,

(15:33):
I'm trying to cover the different areas to a certain degree.
This next artist I've got for you is from let's
just say up in the mountains northeast of India. The
artist's name is Nial and he dropped an EP called
the Nanda Dave Express. This song from it is called Vat.

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it is that's Kim John rinkm Malumn.

Speaker 8 (17:06):
You will be joined very shortly by Rota is the

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host of the show. Called No Gurbani and his show,
primarily in Hindi, really breaks down the teachings of the Gurbani,
so make sure you tune in for that today. It's
airing at five p m. Pacific time right here on
Rokus Avenue Radio. This next song We've got for you

(17:47):
is an artist by the name of Rauda. The song
is called Total.

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Speaker 8 (21:00):
I could have gone with Don daniol Yalla here, but
I think this guy is really onto something when it
comes to hip hop. It's rob me Hudda. This song
called total really crashed our show this year with that
song came out of nowhere. This one is an artist
that we've been big fans of on the show. His

(21:22):
name is Sultan, the song is calleda and on this
one he collaborates with a couple of his friends on
a previous number one song on this show.

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Joda shad baka Dania.

Speaker 17 (23:47):
It's done.

Speaker 8 (23:49):
And a lot of people think that that is a
song and against another rapper up there in Canada who
has since lost a lot of his footing. I would say,
but it was a big call out.

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the Sidu had released before he had passed. You never
know what you're calling songs and what they actually end
up being for you in that moment. Unbelievable. Now you

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can't see it any other way. This is see them
out getting together with young Sammy who see.

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Did you guys ever think that there would be a
Nigerian rapper rapping in Hindi? He kind of grew up
in good drafts from what I understand, and picked up
the Hindi language and just mastered it in hip hop.
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steel bangles and shis, three hunds.

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In the world where I mean, we should go.

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My faith was shaking some right, somehow we made it loved.
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if people love it, you'll see the pope.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
On the beach in the tucket play the trumpet.

Speaker 8 (32:28):
Somehow, some way, we made it out the field and.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
Garbage where people killed for Nasis, well as saying we
need to be born again from the problems of Harlequins
and the Charlatans trying to stick they thoughts in them, but.

Speaker 8 (32:36):
They can kill the confidence. Let's say religious.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
But yo, I see the crescent, see the illuminated crossing
the sky in the distance, or maybe your sister clouds,
how they shaped up my bushes. Tell let me never
play down my true existence.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Forget what you know.

Speaker 5 (32:50):
Just take a leap, no matter how high up you
are or how deep or what height it is, be
the mightiest we've been in a tight spot.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
Fight you.

Speaker 11 (33:00):
Musself, the broken that there were five.

Speaker 17 (33:06):
My faith was shaking someway. Somehow we made it.

Speaker 11 (33:13):
No one on front say it's just to begin it
you say it's just.

Speaker 17 (33:19):
To begin it.

Speaker 35 (33:23):
Contdn't. Then it didn't, then it can didn't, then didn't
there Oh there were time musself broken.

Speaker 11 (33:45):
Hours.

Speaker 17 (33:47):
My faith was shaken, shake some way.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Somehow.

Speaker 17 (33:53):
We made it loved and.

Speaker 11 (33:58):
Says just the beginning these days, just the beginning.

Speaker 8 (34:06):
Crazy, right. What's crazy about this song is it has
a couple of Indian guys on there. Of course Steal
Bengals Sid three Ram, but then you have one of
the greatest rappers ever. That's the main artist Nas right
there hopping on a Steal Bengals track and really one
of my favorite songs, a great one. This one is

(34:31):
a fun collaboration amongst three artists. Krishna Ba Pena Ma Daan.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Director in.

Speaker 36 (34:45):
That's a dialect butt dialect, Berl gotta keep it Rictbrector
takes it doesn't know you like it? Girl, brown Skin,
just say island private jet to an islands run by
is you and I?

Speaker 1 (35:06):
If it's asked, then is to a die double?

Speaker 36 (35:08):
Or that was a mad suicide to Lady Marahana lucky.
There's a terrabin harana milam to a very small lake.
You get playbel the ak jay jack nia. But their

(35:32):
director in the medri pass I say, that's a mera
dialect per jo a pilot per number, dialect per silent
per keep loy vibrate.

Speaker 19 (35:45):
But on a private heavy weight and the game on
the lightweight, the country change can climate.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Does you lucky?

Speaker 25 (35:53):
He let me hire you?

Speaker 33 (35:56):
Yeah, Maria, Yeah, in a couple because.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
A sculpture kirture in croocodulture.

Speaker 33 (36:06):
Culture different cuture direct is a physical effect a lyrically.

Speaker 7 (36:16):
Typically boy on the track typically head.

Speaker 20 (36:21):
Turn.

Speaker 36 (36:22):
But if your direct girl in the merry Bass said
there's a mera dialect per a pilot per number on
dialect perun ara silent per gonna keep it lokey, the
vibrate bern be Loki.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah you know me. You roll like a so said
we are thy yr is those.

Speaker 36 (36:42):
Th no please say you nikolobi shake the vampa coma tanka.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
How you doing a feeling curteous.

Speaker 36 (36:48):
Sampa mira lumpa shot no jump up, I call anybod
if I got your number.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
You be Loki, Yeah, you know me, You roll like
a so you said we are thy r those ten
shakea bumpa. How you doing feeling great? Sampaa lampa shut
no jump up? I call it even if your number.

Speaker 8 (37:22):
Krishna Batcha Fena the Dan. The song is called Vibrate.
It's a great track. It's from Krishna's album and a
great collaboration right there. Now, let's bring in DJ Geet
to the show. Who's going to give you a song
review on one of her favorite hip hop songs in
the moment? What's up? DJ G thank you Sammy?

Speaker 27 (37:43):
Okay, So this week, I genuinely could not stop playing
this track like it keeps pulling you back. We are
talking about the title track, also known as Joki, And
what gets me about this one is that it takes
something that feels so familiar, that classical bunjambi folk energy,

(38:03):
but then it hits you with this whole cinematic hip
hop reimagined and you're like, wait, this is something else entirely.
You've got Hanuman kind coming in with that sharp raw
rap energy, Jasmine Soundless bringing that Punjabi fire, and just
with Sauch Dave's production just tying it all together. It's big,

(38:25):
and it's seamless and honestly, that's a vibe of the
whole song.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
It doesn't just.

Speaker 27 (38:30):
Sound like a typical song from a movie, but it
sounds like a grand entrance. It's like when we're saying
walking into a room and everyone just stops. The rebel
energy is all over. It is a kind of track
that makes you walk a little harder, drive a little faster,
and dance more like you're the main character in your

(38:50):
own action sequence.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
When you hear the song again, you'll see what I mean.

Speaker 8 (38:55):
Back to you, Sammy, get read.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
I'm a king, but I bother my sake.

Speaker 17 (39:03):
They come me are bad man.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
That's a good dam.

Speaker 7 (39:05):
I'm gonna say, just wing back when another man swing.
So I made my mama cry when they made your
heads round.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Got to forgive me.

Speaker 20 (39:11):
I can't forgive them.

Speaker 6 (39:12):
You know my history, you know what I hear them,
what I do now all hours heavy use the head.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
It's a blessing and a curse.

Speaker 17 (39:45):
You joke up.

Speaker 8 (40:11):
On the show with me, How are you?

Speaker 20 (40:12):
Brother?

Speaker 8 (40:16):
We've been covering the South Asian hip hop space, the
evolution of it, and today's show have been really focused
on putting a spotlight on it. E and I wanted
to talk to you today about the following. How far
and this is the perfect person to talk to you
about this. How far are we right now from where

(40:37):
the American industry once was in its prime? How far
is the South Asian industry from that moment? What still
needs to happen for us as the South Asian hip
hop industry to catch up with what was the American
mainstream hip hop industry?

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Yeah, we're light years of the way.

Speaker 8 (40:57):
Brother, Okay, why why you say that?

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Not that I disagree, because all right, there's one song
that made it big and everyone knows what it is.
You go to any hood in America, they'll be able
to sing the song. And if benjubbmcs Beware of the
Boys or you know, Mondanto, but as everyone knows, and
it's because that song is so it has so much

(41:27):
dissy flavor in it. There's a there's a lot of
components right that comes to like crossing over mainstream today. Like,
first off, no Punjabi artists can can cross over barring
everybody else having bars, No one's gonna understand it, right,
So a guy like Wrap Sapara, who I mean, I
don't listen to his music but I understand the aesthetic
he's going for. He's not going mainstream because he doesn't

(41:49):
have the hooks. He has the looks, but he doesn't
have the hooks. You know, his music is not infectious, right,
people want feel good music. That's what pop culture is.
That it's at the height I think graduation, right, somebody
can make an album that's basically graduation stadium level where
it's a hook that people can semi understand or just

(42:12):
so infectious that it doesn't matter what the language is.
So in that category, we're talking super pop, right, We're
talking like like even K pop, right. I think one
of that movie that came up, k Pop Demon Hunters
that it's a Korean movie, Korean like whatever. I mean,
they did dub it in English, but that number one
song from there's a soota pop songs, yeah, and again English.

Speaker 8 (42:33):
So you're optimistic, I'm not interesting. So okay. So that's
in the context of are you saying this in the
context of joining the American industry or are you talking
about it from the perspective of the evolution or the
maturation of the Indian or the South Asian industry in

(42:55):
its own context? What are you talking about there.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
I'm saying, like across over event, like to have some
white girl from the middle of like Phantamonica listening to
this like Punjabi.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Music is light years away.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
Yeah, it's again, it's just too much. It's just too
much packaging that again they see there no offense. It
is dumb, man, They're just so like they just don't
get it. Uh, And I don't think that they are
are showing any signs of getting it either.

Speaker 13 (43:26):
And so again light years.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
Away before you know, Jessica and in uh in which
Malibu is listening to some Punjabbi artists, they might be
listening to bad Buddy.

Speaker 8 (43:40):
Yeah you know right now. No, of course not got it,
got it.

Speaker 24 (43:46):
No.

Speaker 8 (43:47):
I was just curious because you know, we we're seeing
that a little bit in terms of social media where
people are posting, but I'm still questioning whether they're actually
listening to it, you know, and that's the thing we
gotta we gotta get them there.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
Yeah, I think again, it's just again I've been talking
about this, the Punjubbi music messiah, the one that's gonna
like just have all the perfect things going for them
to be the perfect crossover body.

Speaker 8 (44:13):
It's just Uh, we're just far off.

Speaker 4 (44:15):
Because you know what, this is my biggest hot take.
I don't think any of these like like Bunjubbi speaking
artists truly understand how to use Punjubbi in that way
to create the most infectious hooks. Right, Punjabi the tonal language.
You can massage and stretch and do a lot of
things with the with the language, and so you should

(44:35):
be able to just make a hook that sounds like wow.
But instead it's always very like folk drenched or like,
you know, it's just it doesn't it doesn't like catch
you in that way. You know, there's no there's there's just.

Speaker 8 (44:50):
It's just not there.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
Man.

Speaker 8 (44:52):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (44:52):
Okay, I read an essay on this topic.

Speaker 8 (44:54):
Yeah, well no, no, no, it sounds like, well I
hear that, and I hear the approach in terms of
your thought, and you know, A note it because I
think that there are so many obstacles there for the
South Asian artists, especially in the context of the global landscape.
They have to overcome so much and language and is
a big, big hurdle. And we're seeing that there are

(45:16):
some artists obviously out there, the aforementioned dil Jit and
so many others that are certainly taking a shot at
it for sure, and it's they're the ones that are
on the front lines of it in terms of them
introducing the sound to so many people. But is there
gonna be the next kid or the next kid after
that remains to be seen And where is that kid?
We don't see him right now.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
And so yeah, I mean like unless you go to
K pop row and you basically like manufacture a group
or a bunch of girls or whatever's happening, it's possible,
but like it's gonna it's at that point like you're
just faking everything. It's not going to be genuine. It's
just to say you got it done, to get it

(45:55):
done type thing. So that's why it's just like in
a very real way that that has that rustic feel
like I think the only person who ever really is
going to do it and is the king of this
is Punjab. There's nobody else.

Speaker 8 (46:09):
Wow, shout out to Raj and Uh Punjab is a
legend around here for sure. Great hanging out with you, brother,
Thank you. All right, here's the next song for you guys.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
But yeah, we're a knuckle shanan.

Speaker 37 (46:26):
Pay for Oscara, Little We are Mary Marie, Lorrie Fel Tower,
Babi Kaga many or Contra.

Speaker 38 (46:42):
Thank me til Pura innginet game cool involvement of the
Meritsani Sufi Bold Kidney Heart but Jidney Gluby my Vintage
on my Fresh just a Mauri point is that the way?

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Motherfucker?

Speaker 39 (46:59):
Mister you know this is afaid but on YouTube non
doing g pr Sco Food band, the Google t J
Japan and.

Speaker 10 (47:11):
The number.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
The hard male pay.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Party number.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Qui the Park's a Bard Copley.

Speaker 37 (47:25):
Boo Steppers, full batl cur Killer.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Partition.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Hello, mister choke chose just.

Speaker 40 (47:41):
Some man those.

Speaker 37 (47:45):
Crush rolls Ros Marry.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
Scene, Yes, esteem Turky you get there, mesmell Gekap Milicakin.

Speaker 24 (48:08):
Mas for what.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Laura Hiffel Tower, Bobby.

Speaker 40 (48:18):
Papa featuring Hippela just a COVID door delive m Weldy
just goat name is destruction.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Song.

Speaker 8 (48:36):
It's called Eiffel Tower. Pretty interesting track right there. You've
got a lot of personality, he really does. Yeah, having
fun here with this hour of Indian hip hop and
now let's bring in to the show with today's artist spotlight.

Speaker 41 (48:52):
Thanks Sammy. Hey everyone, this is your Rocks Avenue Radio
Busy Chris Band and back with some fun sacs about
your favorite artists. Let's talk about Honeymunkind, the Kerala Bourne,
Houston bread rapper tearing through the global hip hop scene.
He crashed onto charts with big Dogs, the high velocity
anthem and motor stunt visual that was so electric even

(49:13):
asap Brocky hopped on the remix. Now his debut mixtag
Monsoon Season is out. Think twelve tracks Alive with Sonic
Grain featuring fire Collapse, like Reckless with Densel Curry, Goons
with Maxo Cream and the emotional ripples of someone told
me with Roycy It's not just a record, It's a
Sonic Monsoon, bringing immersive emotion and unfiltered energy.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
However, he did not stop there this summer.

Speaker 41 (49:36):
He headlined Coachella pack venues across the UK and Europe
and even had a Now from the Indian Prime Minister.
Then Global Wrap Energy with soul and authenticity. Well that's
all for me, Now back to you, Sammy.

Speaker 8 (49:49):
Thank you so much. Dota otumankind has had a meteoric
rise here in Indian hip hop and global hip hop.

Speaker 6 (49:57):
Yeah, wait a minute, Live ten chosen when we're standing
there on bus, it's.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Mixed, step off underground.

Speaker 6 (50:04):
My dogs, god nachos get the most not the lists
all strike che bar fact that you're a guards but
she ain't cut your brat, got that pat that you
keet my job friend sad dog, the one who got
the dog swopping while I'm bumping project watering through the
city with the big dogs, put the large loyal with me.
We ain't got a count and they outside and put
the banock in the middle. Allowed that's how you make the.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Money pot for everyone in bound. And if you know
there's ever cut them, we're gonna cut them out. My
Bible got me looking.

Speaker 6 (50:32):
For every say no time fresh big getting bending on
that child. Great, you ain't walking out our lives smugging?

Speaker 17 (50:38):
Where were young?

Speaker 6 (50:39):
And you know I got it?

Speaker 8 (50:40):
Pard for that was you going all right?

Speaker 6 (50:42):
Bes in your memory we cavery young when I got it.
Will not bury me out what I want with my
body for my ashes in the river yard and said,
we know ain't that the floor but the caber young,
see immortality is of baalacy.

Speaker 33 (50:54):
I weve a grun this.

Speaker 21 (50:55):
Other family legal carry me the way we young.

Speaker 7 (50:57):
Anything you've ever known anything you've done.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
They ask me, how you meat like this?

Speaker 6 (51:02):
How you let at this?

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Why you worry about the yet up by?

Speaker 20 (51:05):
My dad?

Speaker 38 (51:06):
Get up out the way?

Speaker 24 (51:07):
What you?

Speaker 20 (51:08):
Then it's the.

Speaker 7 (51:09):
Wind wor everybody watch the.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
Skirting up with They ask me, how you get like this?

Speaker 8 (51:13):
How you look like this?

Speaker 20 (51:14):
Why you worry everybody?

Speaker 11 (51:15):
Hoo?

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Yet up a boy, my dad yet up by the
he what you?

Speaker 6 (51:18):
Then it has the wind worried about your watch the skirting,
the whip, Yeah.

Speaker 17 (51:22):
Yes, worthing.

Speaker 6 (51:23):
We've been to the money like it's urgent, hands on god.
So a minute like a surgeon, the skin.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Colored like the burd and the worldwide sign.

Speaker 6 (51:31):
And we face close curtage A hear you are nothing
never certain? Only then that's my missus, missus a brook
keeps a brook. Yeah, so we finding ways to call
up there. Only thing I'm making this up back with
emotious screww Yeah, fay gonna ren out the goodies stuff
there in is how the HOODI now we turned that
at your buggy. Yeah it's food. I used to fight
the bullies.

Speaker 15 (51:52):
No, I fight it with the law.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
I guess something's don't leave it fully. The chime pushed
it in the chime pulled me back out when.

Speaker 8 (51:58):
Our budge if the morning time. And then look at
that Hollywood using hip hop as its main title song. Yeah,
we thought the day was coming back. In nineteen ninety
six when I started a record company called Ruckus Avenue.
A few years later, I was in a hip hop
group called Kharmacy. We weren't trying to invent a genre.

(52:19):
We were just trying to make music that sounded like us.
And looking back at it thirty years later, I realized
there were artists doing the same thing all over the diaspora,
quietly separately, with no name for what we were building.
Today's show was for them. For the diaspora pioneers who
walked so a generation could run, for the Hippunjabi artists

(52:42):
who took regional music and turned it into a global juggernaut.
And for the mainland Indian rappers like Divine Christiana see
them all emc STAN anyway, But I mean, there's so
many names who are making music as good as anyone
on the earth and still waiting for the world's permission
to come along these scenes, this one movement, and what
I want you to understand walking away from this hour

(53:04):
is that this isn't three competing histories. It's one history
with three chapters. The diaspora built the room, the Punjabi
wave filled it. The mainland scene is the next one
through the door. We are going to keep telling that
story on this show every single day until the rest
of the world catches up. Tomorrow, we ask the harshest

(53:27):
question of all, what's actually stopping the music from crossing
over to the mainstream the western radio. I do have
some answers, and I'll share them with you. In the meantime,
I'll leave you with this track. It's an old song
that I did with my old group called Kharmasy and
we started the very first of the Indian hip hop space.

(53:48):
This song is called music. Nos have a great day, everybody.

Speaker 13 (53:51):
A lot of times I'll run to music when I'm
running from lights. He music. It takes my madicine and
makes it all right.

Speaker 24 (53:56):
This shows me the lights, sits me down and gives
me advice, lets me know the people been there before,
and then you're all right. And I confessed to sometimes
I can't deal with distress and having music in my life, yo,
I feel blessed. Expressing most emotions ain't the easiest task,
and usually music knows someone that already has and music
knows where I'm at, and music knows how it goes
because music's been there for other people to spend in

(54:16):
the same foat. Music's been every religion, Music's been with
every girl.

Speaker 13 (54:20):
Music's been to every.

Speaker 11 (54:21):
Corner but the world.

Speaker 24 (54:22):
Music's absorbed every emotion that's ever been expressed by that
organ on the left side of mankind ess. That's why
I confide in music whenever my life's a mess, because
music's endured every single one of life's test Sometimes I
even try to help define my times on my mind
finds the times to design some rhymes and.

Speaker 13 (54:38):
When time permits and I make rhymes, suspend, spend.

Speaker 24 (54:41):
My time onto the track, to lay mind tracks of
time because perhaps my rhymes can help others relax their
minds to run their tacks sometimes when they're asking why.
And that's why I expose my life and my flow
showed to be there for other details people from.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Music knows.

Speaker 20 (55:14):
Where do I begin?

Speaker 8 (55:15):
With you money, where do I even start?

Speaker 1 (55:17):
You've been through everything for me. You've been my heart
to see.

Speaker 42 (55:20):
Me raster the iasion strength dominate the steeple see me
folding guilt and shave the true weakness of my pain.

Speaker 7 (55:25):
You're the solace in my misery, the pleasure in my pain.

Speaker 13 (55:27):
And when I want to talk you listen.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
It will never be the same.

Speaker 42 (55:30):
You were there when she touched me.

Speaker 13 (55:32):
You were there for that death.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
Communication through you, it's the only thing.

Speaker 20 (55:35):
That we have left.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
I'll just try to understand.

Speaker 42 (55:37):
Sometimes it just may not be what you go Well,
no one knows what you're went through. Well, did you
understand the meaning of wealth? Because your grammies look, give
me one and I can't forget myself. Just fanity in
the garden of God, for California holds me help and
through by the back, drawing through the oh, my my neck.

Speaker 7 (55:52):
It helps me keep a clear vision.

Speaker 13 (55:54):
But I'm bout it to you because you palm our relationship.

Speaker 7 (56:17):
Now you them I'm in my life, the magic diamond
my life. You spark my mind and my life. You
walk the times in my life.

Speaker 43 (56:22):
It's only evident that my relationship with you I have
many a sentiment. You're my eternal medicine, and when I reflect,
I integrate your love. How you spread on top of
my rhymes like a maternal hub, mutual and symbiotic. We're
back and forth on this planet, shaking souls like we're
plate tectonic.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Laurel and Hardy.

Speaker 43 (56:39):
You have a sort of compatible force man to bring
you from silence to beauty, back to the center where
you first show me strength, then next came to love,
and you taught me how to share this gift with
polity of Ruk. People all around the world bobbed their
heads in the club, locking you in the streets because
they relate to both. The life is different now I
can be alone and still accompany my heart and soul
of us. I know I always have a company that's

(57:00):
right touchdown in every single human's life.

Speaker 8 (57:02):
But I take this personal.

Speaker 43 (57:03):
That's why I had to highlight on this verse, because
you were the first to give us birth back with
cave men used to bank, sticks against the nerve, aduce
and beats, the melodies like sweet to melochies, and forever
see the parts of you that you brought to me.

Speaker 7 (57:14):
I know it's hard to be in every human being,
hard to see that. I know that you know that
your remedy, sincerely.

Speaker 20 (57:20):
Yours happened to give my life.

Speaker 43 (58:03):
Yo, what's your blessed expression most emotions that easy happened
to give.

Speaker 20 (58:08):
My life Yo? What's your blessed Yo? What's your blessed?

Speaker 8 (58:11):
Yo?

Speaker 20 (58:11):
What's you're blessed? Happen to give my life?

Speaker 4 (58:13):
Yo?

Speaker 20 (58:14):
What's your blessed expression? Most emotions that he has happened
give my life?

Speaker 24 (58:19):
Yo?

Speaker 20 (58:19):
What's you're blessed?

Speaker 1 (58:20):
Yo?

Speaker 20 (58:20):
What's your blessed?

Speaker 8 (58:21):
Yo?

Speaker 20 (58:21):
What's your blessed happened to give my life?

Speaker 8 (58:24):
Yo?

Speaker 20 (58:24):
What's your blessed expression? Most emotions that he easy has
happened to give my life?

Speaker 8 (58:29):
Yo?

Speaker 20 (58:29):
What's your blessed Yo? What's your blessed Yo? What's feel
blessed
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