![]() I was born here two years after they moved, so I came into an unadulterated South Indian household. My family didn’t change their ways one bit after moving to Singapore. “I’m going to rap bilingual, which is me. "I’m not going to rap in fully English or fully in Tamil because neither of those are me," he explains. Shout-outs to family, holidays (“Shawtys celebratin’ me like I’m Deepavali”), breakfast (“Dosa with the caviar”), Bollywood celebrities and Desi girls (“Mami wearing a sari not a skirt”) pepper his lyrics, while shots of Bharatanatyam dancers and Singapore’s Little India district, where he lives, fill his music videos. Alternating between Tamil and English, Rajid Ahamed references everyday elements of Indian culture through deft wordplay. ![]() Years later, the rising MC has created an art form based on exactly that. ![]()
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