Monday dawns. The working week begins. We expend our energies on getting ahead, since falling back isn't an option. The days pass by in a blur, like a comet shooting across the sky at night. And suddenly, the weekend hits. Two days. That's what we have to pack our social lives in. Some take it easy, re-energising themselves before the cycle starts again. But others who are more hedonistic party it up like there's no tomorrow. They hit the bars. They burn the dance floor. And sometimes, they take drugs as well.

That's the sort of club culture that an unlikely duo has addressed with a just-released hip-hop banger called Charlie. The title is a synonym for cocaine, and the duo are Aditya Alamuru aka Malfnktion, a Bengaluru-based electronic producer, and Shayan Roy, a video producer who's rekindled his childhood love for rapping. The lyrics are a hat-tip to substances. Sample what they say about MDMA, or molly — "Molly got me fallin', got me feeling great/ Calling home like, 'Mommy maybe I'll be late'/ Nookie-ing, but I don't need to fornicate/ 40 J's down I make no mistake." But there is — despite the shake-a-leg tempo of the beats — an underlying feeling of loss and sadness, which is often a catalyst for drug use in the first place.