Srinagar rapsoldiers

Srinagar rapsoldiers
The revolutionary, mc kash,mista shais,renegade,mcyoungblood,haze kay.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

legacy of MC KASH

Before writing this,I thought ten times. there are hundred interview articles about mc kash and better than this but I want to write about mc kash in kashmir's hip-hop style and kashmiri hip-hop vision.

Mc kash needs no introduction,every body is familiar with kash.being a rapper,kash did way much for kashmiri hip hop,young chose rap over drugs and i am a witness of that,hip-hop wasnt  introduced as a western cultural invasion but it saw its own origin in kashmir and if you talk about hip-hop in kashmir and kash doesnt come into picture,I am sure then you are talking about Something else and also it will be very wrong if we dont appreciate kash's tracks prior mid 2010,tracks like moment of truth first track I listened it very much,dozen times in a day.the track is very good but kash improvised very rapidly after tracks recorded prior,I remember when I listened to I PROTEST,I was like "this is dope" .I PROTEST turned hip-hop in kashmir upside down.everybody was listening,bluetoothing,downloading,sharing it even some unknown spray painted I PROTEST tag on walls.it was an anthem for every young fella.

After I PROTEST kash was touching sky,tracks after tracks kash became a youth icon.kash directly or indirectly inspired many hip-hop artists in kashmir like kay emmar,mcyoungblood,king utb and every other artist except some.

Some rappers were tryna bring kash's rapping style in their songs at their levels.nobody could rap but after kash's presence,everybody hardworked and made rap tracks at their own best levels,their efforts and their rap lyrics almost included protest nature.

One way or other kash lifted kashmiri hip-hop way high.kash was also part of a rap group ONE CRIB  formed with another rapper HAZE-KAY.Tracks by these duo like rhymes of relevation and two worlds were more than we can say,ONE CRIB is still active or not,I am not sure about it.

We should be supportive and never be jealous because every body has their talents,just they dont see it.i am not gaining anything from writing this but I want to elevate our hip-hop culture any way we can.






Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Song of the week-Family Portrait by Mc kash

Family Portrait  

by MC Kash

From the album Rebel RepubliK
Family Portrait
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LYRICS

Verse I: 

he left home one morning with a basket of fruits 
kept walking in the snow with his half torn boots 
it's hard in a war zone to earn your living 
and to feed your fam you should be brave and willing 

to go out in a world of constant hate 
where the guns keep blazing night and day 
but your kids will starve if you don't face this war 
and he had seen it all when they burnt his stall

when the skies turn red and their rage would call 
when machine guns roared till every man would fall 
but courage and will took over his tears 
and he left home that day feeling his fears 

it's cruel how fate never gave a chance 
to faith, hope and the dreams of this man 
for an armoured truck did cross his path 
and he left home that day and never came back 

Verse II: 

she looks out a window and stares at a door 
still waits for that man who went out in the cold 
hours have passed and years have gone 
her tears run dry but her search is on 

outside jails and garrisons she waits in a line 
"Is he here?" she would ask is he still alive 
on bits of paper they write it down 
last seen in Papa 2 now moved out of town 

and with a child in her arms she goes looking around 
through miles of journey she fights her doubts 
who survived in this war who lived to tell 
what happens when you dissappear in this hell 

and she got no answers in their courts of shame 
and was called a half widow seeking a grave 
now she lives with her struggle in a room so dark 
that when she holds his pictures you could hear him talk 

Verse III: 

it's hard for a fatherless son to grow up 
in a world so cold when it hurts to hold on 
to a life so cruel when you living so poor 
that to feed your hunger you would eat your soul 

you would beat the cold like your dad had done 
but your mum is old and she needs her son 
but you done with patience posing questions 
invoking God - opposing fiction 

mother why he gone I need him now 
been speakin to pictures can I feel him now 
can I ask for justice a cause or reason 
or my dad's grave, so I could see him 

and I know it maa you sacrificed 
saving money for my school you raised me right 
putting food on the table you taught me life 
but it hurts when I hear you cry all night 

MC Kash speaking: 

The struggle of this family has just started. Every other month, 
mass graves emerge from the bosom of this land. And every other day, 
thousands of families like these seek answers. The forgotten people, 
of a forgotten land . . . 

(Rebel RepubliK, © MC Kash 2012)

Graffiti art culture spreads as problems associated with it

Coup de varmul is a new graff art crew comprising of new aspiring artists who paint their stories on the walls in the form of tags,burners and throw ups...

Many artists support their presence in the streets like zyclon-b ,ghalib and other writers....

Artists are trying to develop their styles of fonts,expression and techniques but due to costly cans monopolized by retailers who sell low quality cans on high prices and a writer can afford hardly 4 or 5 cans at a time with 1000 rupees.

People are also seeing graffiti as growing as a menace growing in the streets.Many people try to approach authorities to stop graffiti without knowing what it is about while writers complain about peolple  not  complaining about drug sale in the same streets where a graffiti burner messages people about good things and people complain about graffiti but not about drugs thats decaying our youth.

Another menace what writers say is about child abuse,sex trafficing,rapes and adult films based in kashmir and no action is taken against that ???

this behaviour of people has raged writers who niether can seek a legal way of painting graffiti like in united states and other countries  and niether can approach people..

Many graffiti tags,throws and stencils too appeared in the city are growing criticising society for this dual treatment and writers continue
To hide their faces from general public.

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★★★★★coup de varmul★

Always a student never a teacher

KURBAAN hits the hip-hop charts

       HAZE-KAY a kashmir based mc who is icon for the new generation blasted the indian hip-hop charts with a track KURBAAN,a collaboration with T-jay a punjabi singer who has collaborated with haze-kay. Checkout this amaIng music video and this amazing track ..power to the rhymes

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Graffiti war continues between pro-taliban writers and anti-taliban writers in kashmir.

Graffiti war an alien term you cannot throw around kashmir but thats what kashmiri home-grown graffiti group in collaboration with artists like ghalib have declared  a street graffiti war with those who write about talibanisationof kashmir from pak taliban. Below these  photos of anti-taliban graffiti growing are viral on internet since these types of tags appeared on walls. 

"We dont hide and write this bullshit on walls,now people are taking those morons and us in a same category " - ghalib an independent graffiti artist who has started the drums of such paint war and further added 

"when i look at these writings i wonder how these writings are done with in a such a high security area  and how people allow this anti-social writings on their walls but when we do a good portrait or a good graffiti piece i have to think hundred times before doing that COZ people dont understand. This is not good and this graff war will decide the fate of real graff scene in kashmir " the same views were agreed by el-horia also 

According to the artist's resources this war is likely going to be continued............

Saturday, March 2, 2013

                       rebel republik:liberation - mc kash           
Birthright [4:00]  lyrics

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Bring Him Home [4:02]  lyrics

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Freedom Fighter [4:02]  lyrics

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Heart of a Rebel [3:46]  lyrics

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My People [3:41]  lyrics

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Liberation [4:15]  lyrics

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013


mc-kash talks about on -going controversies 

 an audio interview with baba tamim of TEHELKA , every one must hear this lone voice breaking the environment of hate and violence among people about recent pragaaash band controvery and media hyping it too much to getting their part and leaving kashmiris in confusion and in tense..

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Nevertheless "young and dumb"

                   


Nevertheless 
         RAP SONG HITS THE SRINAGAR CHARTS "YOUNG AND DUMB" .
          THE SONG RECEIVED A BESTEST RESPONSE FROM THE LISTENERS,MORE IS EXPECTED FROM THE RAPPER "RENEGADE" by making these type of tracks , future of hip-hop seems to be flourishing around Kashmir..







"the 47 poets"

                               





floor wars in has started ! this video was captured last month by breaking kalashnikovs also known as "the 47 poets" creating a hip-hop movement in the valley.this alien type of dance form is infamous among the youth.using hip-hop music like the Swedish rap music,french rap music , Arabic and English to perform though this art of dance is limited to the streets only , no stage shows are been organized by them,though been invited by many organizations from India and locally, the crew refuses to do so and works on certain principles. yet kashmir is introduced to another type of thing to deal with.

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

                           GRAFFITI ART DROPS IN KASHMIR

                                             (art by anonymous FAAR ibrahim graffiti artist srinagar)
A new art came into being in kashmir since two uprisings,you can see graffiti tags all over srinagar 
done by some anonymous graffiti artists  though the graffiti was used since ages but when spray painting came ,it became more popular among youngsters through out the world ,

                       (above pic ,graffiti art by peace team gaza)

 some guys with protest slogans in their mind pick up the cans and spray not fearing the militia would catch them,thats what is happening in kashmir these days, in 2008 a graffiti writer ,name not to be mentioned started tagging places near by his neighborhood sooner he started to paint more and more

 known by his anonymous character THE SOCRATES from the group SXR OUTLAWZ 

,this group is divided in sub-groups and now this graffiti crew is called EL-HURIAHIA ,this group leaves a tag name 

SO behind every tag. the kashmiri graffiti tag works can be on , more and more are pouring in

1)the bund srinagar,abdullah bridge

2)press colony  

 inspiration from the streets and keep it real

 

 

 

                         

Sunday, May 13, 2012

srinagar rap soldiers on " the hindu"

It is not unusual that rap and hip-hop find favour with budding musicians of Kashmir. World over, starting from the inner city lanes of New York to the Middle East, these genres of music have been creative tools of resistance. Through popular culture, a critique of perceived discrimination takes place, dissent is voiced and racism and exclusion get challenged. Misrepresentation is also taken to task.

These genres do not exist in isolation but are embedded in and born from the socio-political environment of a society. For many years, youth have taken recourse to these global art forms to engage with and reflect the reality they see around them. A few years ago, this trend took shape in the Kashmir valley, where youngsters tried to articulate what they saw around them through their music.



Soon Renegade, MC Youngblood, The Revolutionary, Mista Shais, M1B, Haze Kay and MC Kash became popular stage names of young Kashmiri men who created music that came straight from the soul of the land and found resonance with the public, not only in the valley but across India. MC Kash or Roushan Illahi is a rapper and emcee who released a song, ‘I Protest' in the Kashmiri unrest of 2010 when hundreds of people were killed in paramilitary action. He has a huge fan following on the social networking sites with thousands of followers on Facebook, Twitter and ReverbNation. His popularity notwithstanding, his studio was raided by the police and henceforth he has been unable to find a place to record his songs. But he continues to sing, sometimes about love also, says Shayan Nabi, his manager.

Haze Kay or Zubair Magray used to perform with Roushan but has become an independent artist since he moved to Pune to pursue further studies. He shot to fame when his song ‘Azadi' uploaded online was forced to be taken down by the police who were not amused by the lyrics.

He makes his own music and releases it through his own production house. His music was labelled anti-government. “I am living and studying in Pune, which is in India, how am I anti-government? As an artist, it is my duty to respond to the reality around me and express it through the art form,” says Zubair.

Other vibrant artists have now stopped making any music whatsoever. If a song has the words protest, stones or Kashmir, the police are quick to swoop down to the studios and threaten the producers to discontinue the recording. They are instead offered free promotion if they choose to sing about love and police-people harmony. A number of artists have stopped making music altogether due to the constant threats.

Only those artists, who either have some influence or sing about non-political subjects are able to survive in Kashmir today. A healthy non-violent mode of resistance guaranteed in any free society is thus being stifled even before it can take complete shape.


by the Hindu national(divya trivedi )

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

HIP-HOP GRAFFITI ARTISTS IN KASHMIR


A art work in Kashmir started in 2008 later developed AS TIME PASSED ,THIS IS A FINAL GRAFFITI PRESENTATION MADE BY OUR TEAM CHECK IT OUT   

A HIP-HOP GRAFFITI ARTIST HOLDING THE ARTWORK

HIP-HOP GRAFFITI ARTISTS IN KASHMIR

Thursday, November 10, 2011

lowkey and immortal technique



lowkey(kareem dennis) British-iraqi rapper who raps on the Palestinian-israeli conflict and on the babies born in agony near the uranium plant FAJULLAH ,his recent comment on obama ,the American president "A HANDSOME GUY FOR AN UGLY EMPIRE"his song TERRORIST gained a quite popularity in the hip-hop world and also performed in PALESTINE due to which he was detained in ISRAEL by the israeli forces then his fans sighed millions of petitions to set the hip-hop artist free ,he recently released his new album "SOUNDTRACK TO STRUGGLE" and is available on the INTERNET while as his fellow peruvian rapper IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE  released his new album "THE MARTYR" which is on free download after his previous album release THE 3rd world ,recent OCCUPY WALL STREET protests inspired him and evan he joined that ! immortal technique doesn't apologize about what he talks in his tracks !his seriousness in his tracks make his message so powerful  and meaningful.........






                       


Thursday, July 14, 2011

New video rizwan qazi




                                Amazing  video  from   rizwan qazi    must see
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                                                ....... kashmiri rappers ........

new video sxr outlwzz(demo)



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new songs on reverbation


Renegade has released his new song"its goes on"
Mc kash has released his new two  songs"unbreakable" and "13 of july "
let us introduce you to the new mcs  of Kashmir

king utb
s-x-r
rizwan qazi


Sunday, April 24, 2011

MC KASH

MC KASH
MC KASH HAS RELEASED HIS NEW SONG NAMELY" ONE YOUNG KASHMIR".HE PERFROM IN S.K.I.C.C IN CANTAUR.CHECK IT OUT THIS VIDEO.
GUYS THERE ARE SOME RAPPERS WHO NEEDS UR SUPPORT .HOPE YOU GUYS WILLSUPPORT THEM.













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