Bengal's other poets: The hip-hop artists taking the rap scene by storm
UPDATED: May 28, 2021 17:56 IST Cizzy, Rapper On the riverbanks of Chandannagar, Old Boy raps about not settling for an Alto when you really want a Ferrari. About 50 km away, in Kolkata, hip-hop artist Cizzy speaks of a quiet Bengali desperation in his song ‘Middle Class Panchali’. Across West Bengal, a large group of musicians—mostly young men—are finding expression in free verse and rap. Formed in 2010, the band Underground Authority had kickstarted the trend in English, but over time, Bengal’s hip-hop movement has come to include other languages—Hindi, Punjabi, Maithili and eve...
Source: indiatoday.in