Comments on: Asian artists at Hate Racism festival http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1930 Current affairs for a progressive generation Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:02:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Bhargavi http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1930#comment-116583 Bhargavi Fri, 02 May 2008 05:33:52 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/?p=1930#comment-116583 What's interesting is that young south asians in the US seem to have taken up the challenge of more edgy indo-fused political hip hop and r&b - check out karmacy(http://www.karmacy.com/) An indian hip-hop band which disdains vanilla-bland r&b and gets stuck into issues - rapping in english, spanish, gujerati, punjabi and hindi ... their new album contins scathing diatribes against the war in iraq, the treatment of women, and the effect of immigration to india - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fncsCNptj78 .... Its the sort of scene we desperately need to be seeing evolving once again here .... What’s interesting is that young south asians in the US seem to have taken up the challenge of more edgy indo-fused political hip hop and r&b – check out karmacy(http://www.karmacy.com/)

An indian hip-hop band which disdains vanilla-bland r&b and gets stuck into issues – rapping in english, spanish, gujerati, punjabi and hindi … their new album contins scathing diatribes against the war in iraq, the treatment of women, and the effect of immigration to india – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fncsCNptj78 ….

Its the sort of scene we desperately need to be seeing evolving once again here ….

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