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.
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.
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.
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.
yeah.... some bangrah @*#$! 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....
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
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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