The 18-song soundtrack includes work by Divine, Naezy, Sez on the beat, Rishi Rich, Dub Sharma, Jasleen Royal, Ace, Ishq Bector, MC Altaf, MC TodFod, 100 RBH, Maharya, Noxious D, Viveick Rajagopalan, and others. Gully Boy is the soundtrack album for the 2019 film of the same name directed by Zoya Akhtar. Indian classical and rap are very similar in their musical rhythms.Divine, Naezy, Dub Sharma, Ankur Tewari, Spitfire, Sez on the beat, Rishi Rich, Raghu Dixit, MIDIval Punditz, Karsh Kale, Chandrashekhar Kunder, Jasleen Royal, Mikey McCleary, Ace, Ishq Bector, Prem-Hardeep, Viveick Rajagopalan and Kaam Bhaari People should really go back and listen to that. Rahman made the first Indian rap! The Patti rap song. Born to Telugu parents, the rap artiste mentions she drew parallels between Indian classical music and rap very early-on in her journey. “I fell in love with music first through listening to A R Rahman I call him my musical father and then through artistes like Lauryn Hill and Fugees,” she said.
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The Indian-American artiste, who also featured in Gully Boy, the Bollywood movie on India’s budding hip hop culture, is known to put Indian rap music on the global map. “It’s come straight from the recording studio to this stage.” A lot of people in America and the West only know us by the ‘Made in India’ tag,” she said, adding this song was written just a few weeks ago. “I think of my music as being a bridge, to bring the West back to the East. Launching her latest song, Made In India, for the very first time, the singer mentioned that the Expo stage made for the perfect setting to debut a song so close to her heart.
“One of the first lyrics in the album is about Dubai, so I decided that I needed to come here to shoot it,” said the award-winning rapper. Outlining her future plans in the city, the award-winning artiste also revealed that she recently shot in Dubai a music video for one of her latest songs from the new album. Dubai is the best city to host the Expo,” she said.
It’s simply amazing to see so many different people from so many different cultures have come together.
Rahman, who has his whole orchestra here. “I’ve had a look at some of the artistes that are performing, like A. Even though people couldn’t stand, I could just feel the energy come through.” The 35-year-old artiste, known for her collaborations with renowned singers including Gwen Stefani, Iggy Azalea and Fifth Harmony, expressed her excitement, being here for the Expo’s launch weekend, “I know it will be going on for a few months, but I’m so glad I got to witness the Expo right at its start,” she said, adding that there’s no better city in the world to host an event of this magnitude. Raja Kumari, who’s also been featured in Bobby Friction, a BBC Asian Network programme, said, “Dubai is always such an amazing city to visit. “It’s been so long since I’ve performed back on stage and today, it just felt like I’m home.” Marking her first performance back on stage with live audience since the pandemic, the rap artiste admitted to “feeling exhilarated”. We caught up with the Grammy-nominated artiste at the end of her live performance for the Expo launch weekend, on October 2, to hear her talk about her future plans.