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Masti ki paathshala
Updated On: 22 October, 2023 06:50 AM IST | Mumbai | Neerja Deodhar
Two years after a hip-hop enthusiast and media professor convinced a Vile Parle college to offer a course in the 1970s genre of African-American music, its alumni are readying to cut EPs and diving into research
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Kavya (name changed on request) used to post quick raps and rhymes on social media. She says the hip-hop course gave her much-needed direction and wisdom about the genre. Pic/Nimesh Dave; une musician Mahesh Pawan’s perception of what hip-hop and lyricism are, have changed drastically since he signed up for the course, he says. Pic/M Fahim; When Dr Yatindra Ingle first took an interest in hip-hop, songs in the genre didn’t even play on music channels. The curriculum he designed for the course addresses this gap
Rudolph Pujary has the gift of the gab. A business development manager at one of Dubai’s largest logistics firms, he’s also an aspiring rapper. For the last four years, he has been active in the city’s fledgling hip-hop scene, through his crew Shilla 050, which once opened for a show by DIVINE and Raftaar. His own verses have been about his family and hustle.
In early 2021, Pujary came across a certificate course on hip-hop offered by Vile Parle’s Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Arts, Science and Commerce. He was instantly drawn to it. “I knew about the more practical aspects of performing hip-hop, but I was curious about its background, about the context in which it was born and how it was nurtured in African American communities,” Pujary says. He was one of 300+ individuals who applied for the first batch of this course, spearheaded by Dr Yatindra Ingle—a professor of mass media at the college—who has long been clued into the hip-hop scene in Mumbai and India. Ingle’s interest is both academic as well as artistic; he has been mapping shifts in the genre, while also performing and hosting cyphers and underground rap battles.
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