A 28-year-old rapper hailing from Uttarakhand has garnered attention on social media platforms with his amazing rap music on casteism named ‘Jaat Kya Hai’ (What is caste), a soundtrack on ill practices which practice prejudice based on caste system in the society, was released two days ago.
The song has garnered more than 17,000 views on YouTube.
The rapper, Rahul Negi, who goes by his stage name Madara, has been singing rap songs on various social issues like child labour, education and several campus-based issues such as those from national capital’s Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Rahul’s past tracks have been widely appreciated across the board for touching issues which are not a common choice for artists from the same genre. In his recent track on casteism produced in collaboration with music production house Seven & Seven, he has received appreciation from Bollywood personalities like Swara Bhaskar and politicians like Jignesh Mewani among several others.
Rahul told HT, “I chose to sing on casteism issue because I had seen it happening in my family and close surroundings while growing up in Uttarakhand. Later when I shifted to Delhi, I saw prevalence of casteism there as well, owing to which I grew frustrated. It helped because I always write my songs when I get frustrated with any issue.”
Rahul, who gained popularity with his latest track named ‘Tukde Tukde Gang’ based on JNU episode, claims that it is when he saw casteism in his close circle in an urban space like Delhi, he decided to make a song about it and began researching the subject.
“I read books by Baba Saheb Ambedkar, Arundhuti Roy and others on the subject before penning down the song. As I keep myself updated on various current affairs and incidents happened in country, I mentioned many gruesome incidents of castiesm in my song including one in which an 8-month-old pregnant Dalit sanitary worker was beaten to death by an upper-caste family just because she touched their dustbin,” he said.
