Annihilation of Caste: Kalahandi rapper Dule Rocker plans album ‘to take forward Ambedkar’s legacy’ The part-time construction worker jumped into the limelight with his stinging rhymes about the migrant crisis. Duleshwar Tandi, who performs under the name Dule Rocker. | Duleshwar Tandi. Duleshwar Tandi, who records under the name Dule Rocker, knows exactly what his music isn’t about. “My rap isn’t to please you,” the 27-year-old said in a phone interview from Bhubaneshwar, where he lives. “It’s not for your entertainment and your parties and dancing.” Equally, the part-time construction worker from Odisha’s Kalahandi district knows just what he wants people to get out of his music: “I write about social and political issues that are important for people to know.”