Think about playback singers, they can have a 100 million streams, but who is getting paid for it? So, this new model changes everything," he says. Only a few people at the top are actually getting the money. "This is very important as new artists are always getting preyed on. Rahman's label, Maajja, a unique venture which allows artists to retain their copyrights and masters. While Made in Jaffna is not his debut album, it is his first studio album under A.R. It felt the most collaborative and I felt my community behind me on that." "I had the opportunity to include a lot of the Tamil artist community in that video. From his new crop of videos, 'Neeye Oli' got him the most views. So, music is not the nucleus of this world, it's just one of the components," he says.
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Many times, I'll have a concept for a video before I even have the song. "I can never separate myself as either just a musical artist or a visual artist. This can be seen in his captivating videos for songs such as 'Savage', featuring hip-hop and Bharatanatyam dancer Usha Jey, or on his album artwork (created by artist La Prismata, it prominently features a picture of de Paul's mother). So, we are both speaking the same language, but using different vocabulary".Ĭollaboration seeps into his other interest as well-visual art. "I'm not musically-trained, so I explain what I'm trying to do emotionally to him, and he then synthesises that emotion into musicality. Released in September, the album is an autobiographical effort, where the Jaffna-born artist sincerely raps about not just the trials and tribulations of his Tamil community during the Sri Lankan civil war, but also what he went through as a South Asian growing up in a western world.įrom producers like Santhosh Narayanan to rapper Navz-47, artist TiKa and his longtime collaborator, producer La+ch, Made in Jaffna sees de Paul open himself up to an unprecedented influence. “Until then, we’ll keep the compositions going!” says Sean."Came in '86/I was four, we was torn/ It was me and Amma, Appa and my four/ Older brothers, I was youngest and protected/ In Montreal we landed/ But Toronto made a home," spits Tamil rapper Shan Vincent de Paul on the self-titled track from his latest album Made in Jaffna. The group is now looking out for record labels that share their beliefs. We’re doing the same thing, minus the bad habits,” Sean says. “American gangsta rap brings out the problems their country faces. They believe that rap music should highlight the issues that people are facing.
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They’ve also composed a song for Quick Gun Murugan, called Ragamuffin Mix, through which they got “creative satisfaction”. Sout Dandy Squad has performed live for BBC at Ambedkar College and also jammed with American rap group Timbaland Productions and Apache Indian.
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Rock musicians have their way this is ours,” says Surya aka RaU (24). This is also their foray into composing rap in every Indian language. The 15-song album deals with issues like the 26/11 attacks and recycling, and features English songs with a smattering of Tamil words. “Music is the greatest weapon, and through it we want to change perceptions.”Ĭhange is also the theme of the group’s first album, Respect or Hate. “I dislike it when people refer to us as a group from Dharavi,” says Sean, who co-writes lyrics and compositions for the eight-member band. Suresh aka Sean (20), a Dharavi resident, brought the group together six years ago to change people’s outlook towards ghettos. In a country where rock bands enjoy immense popularity, a group of rap musicians from Mumbai are seeking to bring change through “Tamil electro music.” They call themselves the Sout Dandy Squad, and while they’re essentially rappers, they’re also self-taught DJs and perform hip-hop, krump and freestyle dance.