There is a lot of similarity between hip hop and Indian hip hop rap. Before initiating this topic, what is hip-hop rap? Hip hop rap is lyrics added musically performed by their own vocal, A rhythmic and rhymic speech. Hip hop is a culture in the late 70s originated by complex African American economically depressed South Bronx section of NYC. Later on, the wide-spreading popularity of hip hop goes to the 1980s to 90s. DR. DRE, LIVE CREW, TOO SHORT, HEAVY D, E-40 and some famous from the 90s ICE CUBE, NAZ, JAZ-Y, SNOOP DOG, SCARFACE famous rapper of their time. Those who took the rap game to the next level, and many new rappers inspired by it.
In 1990, the famous Punjabi rapper Baba Sehgal was the person who Indruced hip hop in India with their hits songs. But it does not mean people did,t know about this thing but he was the person who took a risk and did the first raping song in India. Now in India you see the rap culture has made a place as a career. The reason behind the popularity of raping in India, took turn when the people watched gully boy as the first movie based on the life of rapers called Vivan Fernandes aka Divine, and Naved Shaikh aka Naezy. I genuinely believe those who do raping and those who don’t familiar with this field as taking a start to make a career in this field.
Indian hip hop, the Era you see is the same as NYC 80s. People enjoy rap, they loved the music and enjoy Vibing with the song. Early you only know the rappers like honey sing, Raftaar but there is a lot of rapers you see in every neighborhood who wants to become a rapper. Let’s talk about some rapers and the label. Divine, Sammohit, Saifaan, MC Altaf, D’evil, Sha rule. I believe they are the finest rappers for Indian hip hop and also the 2nd generation of the culture. These rappers have gained lots of fans in India and many new rappers have been inspired by these rappers. Not only in Hindi or English you would see the different nations of people rap in their language like Odisha, Marathi, Tamil Telugu, and Bhojpuri.
Now in the current situation, the Indian rapping Industry does not need Bollywood support. They’re gaining popularity and money by their works. Without a doubt, they putting a benchmark to the next generation by starting teaching raping. They initiated this thing as ‘ Learn rap from Gully gang’ by an app called Fronflow.
