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Updated On: 11 September, 2009 05:38 PM IST | | Aastha Atray Banan
Mumbai boy Sahir Doshi is trying to initiate a breakthrough in the Indian Hip-Hop scene. And he's just 16. FYI waited for him to get back from school to chat with him about why he raps in Marathi, Hindi and Swahili
Mumbai boy Sahir Doshi is trying to initiate a breakthrough in the Indian Hip-Hop scene. And he's just 16.u00a0 FYI waited for him to get back from school to chat with him about why he raps in Marathi, Hindi and Swahili
He ain't a wack dude, but a bag of chips and all that, his rhyming is phat and an attitude to match.
If that doesn't sound right to you, you are absolutely right. It's far from right, because rapping and Hip-Hop sure isn't easy, even though 16 year-old Sahir Doshi makes it look effortless. "You don't learn how to rap. Either you haveu00a0 it, or you don't," says the student of The Cathedral & John Connon School, Fort.
And although you notice his Hip-Hop garb, complete with knee-length shorts and a pee cap, what you end up going back impressed with is his ability to converse like an adult. "What do you mean? I am not a child," shrugs the aspiring rapper, in a mock-angry tone. If his rhymes about upliftment of the poor and Mumbai's tragic state are anything to go by, you will end up agreeing with him.
Just back from a brain-numbing day at school, packed with classes and sport matches, Sahir may look the part of a cool rapper, but he doesn't want you to mistake him for a "blinger". "Old school Hip-Hop is about so much more than that. It's about raising issues," he says.u00a0
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