ADITI SARAWAGI
SCHOOLS IN INDIA
Hip Hop music or rap music is a genre developed by African-Americans in the United States in the 1970 ’ s . The hip-hop culture includes MC ’ ing or rapping , DJing , break dancing and graffiti writing . This genre has become immensely popular in India and has lately become mainstream . Indian Hip Hop or Desi hip hop has become a sub-genre of the hip-hop movement . It is basically a combination of hip hop and Indian influences performed by artists of South Asian origins . The term ‘ desi hip hop ’ was coined by Bohemia , one of the most popular hip hop artists in the industry .
Hip hop has been heard in the country since a long time and few of the earliest performers included Apache Indian and Baba Sehgal who introduced rap to the Indian audiences . Yet rap or hip hop had never been a part of mainstream club music but an underground music genre until now where hip hop has become the rage all over the country .
The following schools have come up in India to teach hiphop to young aspirants across the country :
1 . The Dharavi Dream Project : India ’ s only official school of hip hop , takes online classes with students from India , Pakistan , Bangladesh , Nepal and Canada . It is a free school of hip hop and teaches the theory of hip hop , how to write beats and lyrics , produce music and more . This school was started in 2014 by Samir Bangara and Dolly Rateshwar and was backed by AR Rahman and filmmaker Shekhar Kapur to promote local talent . MC Kode , Gauri Dabholkar , and D-Cypher amongst others are taking classes online due to the pandemic and is a 10-month weekly course .
2 . Front Row Online Class : Top hip-hop artists - DIVINE , MC Altaf , Shah Rule , D ’ Evil , MC Heam , JD and Stunnah Beatz are mentors and guides to the world of hip hop in these online classes . This course starts from the basics of rap , and moves to creating songs-it has everything to help you kickstart your hip-hop career . The course will help in building your brand , basics of mixing , performance tips-all designed in collaboration with the ‘ Gully Gang ’ and is in partnership with The Dharavi Dream Project . The course is priced at Rs . 799 with lifetime access to all the classes .
3 . Beat Pro Rap Music Production : This Mumbai based music school is taking online classes for Rap Music Production which will enable the students to make a complete track with vocals along with learning mixing and mastering and complete track processing method . This school has been in business from twenty years and is offering the course at Rs . 40,000 / - along with lifetime access and support for the students .
4 . SVKM ’ s Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Management in Mumbai : It is the only college in India to start a certification course on Insights to Hip- Hop Culture . It is a value-added 60 hour certification course , conducted online and is a combination of practical as well as theoretical knowledge . This course is designed and conducted by Dr . Yatindra Ingle , a noted hip-hop artist and emcee himself .
All upcoming artistes have their own style of rapping and that reflects India ’ s multiculturalism beautifully . Their music is more often than not about their lives , experiences , their surrounding environment and their perspective of the world . Rappers from across the country are rapping not only in English but even in their vernacular languages . Borkung ‘ BK ’ Hrankhawl from Tripura uses rapping as a medium to express himself as an Indian . This success has been inspiring more and more youngsters to take up the microphone and to consider hip hop as a serious genre of music . Indian Hip Hop has seen a phenomenal rise and had especially made its mark as serious business in the past two years .
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