welcome to worldwide music wednesday, my tag i started a year ago where on wednesday you post music that meets EITHER of the following:
- it is by an artist who does not reside primarily in the US, the UK, canada, or australia
- it is not sung in english
these are the only hard-and-fast rules but the spirit is to post music that goes underrecognized here, so, y'know, think about whether BTS needs the bump in comparison to a chinese rock band nobody's ever heard of
my offering for today is INDIAN GUN, by GRAVITY:
which is just like two minutes of straight bars. translation below
They love the cinnamon buns
I could blow anytime, Indian gun
Feeling like Jack, no Caribbean pirate
Gonna survive, be dead silent
Print the skull, black Denali1
I'm playin sports,
See this tech rider, say "oof"
Mess with me and go "poof"
Kr$na2 told Divine2 this boy's different
The difference between you and me's growing
Reaching here was the work of years
Everyone worked hard
I'm the real winner of Hustle3, fuck the votes
Badshah2 said that I'm hip hop
All for the action, you just talkIkka2 said I'm a fighter
Kimbo Slice, I kill em with niceness,
On the mic, Tyson, I'm feeling like a Viking
No rifle in my hand, I shoot at sight
Vision is Cyclops, goods from Waichin
Grat-a-tat-tat, these senses are heightened
No cash in the bag, millions in savings,
Your trouble is my training day
On a magic mic, Channing Tatum
You're my nothing, I'm your day one
Stanley Kubrick, I see Strangelove
I write on the phone, paper gets burnt
Alphanumeric, you know I'm A1,
The rest is mid, little boys on pagers,
Album of the year, songs are ragers
Putting up hits, doing deals majorHah, your punches feel like jokes,
Whatever you do you, you miss the target,
Flavor is spicy, Kurkure4
Your songs all lukewarm,
And my songs all hot
Rice without Thai pot
Wack rappers boycott
I'm the best, by god!
My fault, my lord,
Because all I do is kill
Household responsibilites,
I pay every bill
Everyone's torn in the off-season,
All I do is chill,
Let my heart have its fillOn the field like Kohli
So pull a pipe from Kasauli and shake up your head
Intentions not right, test's a little serious, this life's gonna get cut
If everything I write turns out criminal,
Criminally underrated.
Bars are my redemption,
You are not pulling a jailbreak!
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like the car. this took me a minute to figure out
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these are all indian rappers
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mtv hustle is an indian hip-hop competition that this dude is on; badshah is the main judge there. honestly i think this line is a little bit weak, like "my 'hustle ka asal vijeta' shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt," but i like the rest of this track enough to give the dude a pass
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"kurkure" literally means "crunchy" but it's also a brand of indian snack, so mentally substitute "ruffles" to translate
