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2.7 ( 18 total votes )
Kidd Skilly - Motor City Punjab
Artist: Kidd Skilly
Producer: DJ Robby
Album: UnderCover SuperStar Mixtape
Label: Witnis Records
As far as genre-melding goes, the fusion of hip-hop and bhangra really isn’t that much of a stretch. Both rely heavily on rhythm and percussion, and each has its own dance component that has evolved symbiotically along with it. While the combination has yet to gain mainstream appeal in the USA, artists like Kid Skilly are doing their best to help it along. His new single, Motor City Punjab, is a half English, half Punjabi pop jam. The Mexican-Indian Detroit native’s vocals fall somewhere between singing and rapping, and come across as a sort of festive chant. Producer DJ Robby contributes a Detroit beat with a Far East twist. Motor City Punjab will appear on his new mixtape, UnderCover SuperStar Mixtape, available on September 11.
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 31 |
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dis dat ish rite here
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| Posted on Aug 25, 2008 |
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DJ Booth Crew  Total Ratings: 11633 |
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Hip-Hop is INTERNATIONAL, baby. From Dee-troit all the way to India... there isn't anyone who cannot turn a sound into something worthy of rapping over. The flow is solid by Dkilly and DJ Robby's beat is SICK. Would love to hear Hova over this too.
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| Posted on Aug 25, 2008 |
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seriously?
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| Posted on Aug 25, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 608 |
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im not feeling this, the last song i heard from skilly was sooo much better. i dont want to ever heard this again
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| Posted on Aug 25, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 2281 |
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Not 4 me
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| Posted on Aug 25, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 2130 |
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I'm digging that beat fam! That goes hard. I don't what homey is singing in the hook, but it sounds mad eclectic. This is some tyteness. Kidd Skilly is okay. I think I like the track more because it sounds unique. I'll throw this in ro- - - wait, this is a banger. I'll give it 4 stars.
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| Posted on Aug 25, 2008 |
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Good up until he speaks. not the best lyrics pointless f-words, not much meaning and not really that good
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| Posted on Aug 25, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 908 |
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You know, I was listening to "Indian Dance" (another song by him), and it totally passed over my head first listen. After a while, I thought there was something bigger in it. This is sick as hell. Punjabi music almost always has a Hip Hop feel in it, so Kidd is flipping the punjabi veins into Hip Hop. I can sorta feel this more than others as... A) I'm brown, though I'm a muslim, I still have those Indian roots deep in my family (coming from Fiji to Canada, me being born Canadian), B) Living in SURREY, brown-topolis #2, right after India itself. I'm almost tempted to bump this up a star.
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| Posted on Aug 25, 2008 |
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i would give this song 4 stars if sumbody else wit lyrical skills rapped over this, the production is crazy tho, 3 stars for production alone
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| Posted on Aug 25, 2008 |
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Although I don't understand over half of what he is saying, this beat is BANANAS!
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| Posted on Aug 25, 2008 |
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yeah.... some bangrah shit again... last time i heard something like this was the remix of punjabi mc's mundian to bach ke (the one with jay z i mean....)... 3 stars. maybe without this shitty autotune fx....
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| Posted on Aug 25, 2008 |
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hmmm didnt x-pect him to have a song lyk thiz. interesting. BUT I DO LYK....but it aint no banga but ya.
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| Posted on Aug 25, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 314 |
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I love rap and i love international music, indian music being one of my faves, and i really really like this beat but i cant make up my mind about this dude singing...I dont know if its the reverb of his voice or waht but i'm not really feeling the singing and lyrics...insturmental itself would be krazy
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| Posted on Aug 26, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 3210 |
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The autotune completely ruined this track...I just can't listen to it! Pity, because the melody and the beat are great...but the voicebox hurts my ears
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| Posted on Aug 26, 2008 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 12 |
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niice! 'bhangra chick' and 'Ni Sohniye' ft. akon are other mad songs ive heard from skilly!
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| Posted on Aug 29, 2008 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 356 |
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Beat ain't all that. Not feelin this cat at all.
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| Posted on Sep 03, 2008 |
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absolutely not!
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| Posted on Dec 07, 2008 |
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