Mumbai-based rapper set to hit the toad on a mobile studio tour

Updated On: 22 June, 2024 09:57 AM IST | Mumbai | Devashish Kamble

A city-based rapper will set out on a journey across rural India in a mobile recording studio to put the spotlight on undiscovered female musicians

A group performs on the pull-out stage during a previous initiative in Delhi

Eminem adopted it to survive on the rough streets of Detroit, and Post Malone embraced it to blend in with an unfamiliar community growing up in Texas. Hip-hop, as we know it, has been a lifeline for many. For Andheri-based rapper Ashwini Hiremath aka Krantinaari, it paved the path to self-confidence growing up in a predominantly English-speaking friend circle at school. “Hip-hop changed my vocabulary. I was lucky enough to be in a city that was embracing the genre at the time,” the 29-year-old recalls. Fifteen years later, the IIT Bombay School of Design alumna and co-founder of rap collective Wild Wild Women, is preparing to set out on a bus journey across rural India, taking the hip-hop experience to those who don’t have luck on their side.

Young female artistes record inside the studio space housed by the bus