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East West: The Brown Underground – 3 (Kanwar Anit Singh Saini a.k.a. Sikh Knowledge)

Posted on July 3, 2010

Artist: Kanwar Anit Singh Saini MC Name: Sikh Knowledge Reprezentin’: Montreal, Canada A Little Taste:  “The dance of the marginalized till my feet bleed like Rekha/ Play Ribs like xylophones balancin music and hunger/ I dance for 84, I dance for Darfur/ while they dance to duck ammunition during war.” – From “Technorganic” His/Story: Raised by a single father in Montreal, Canada from the age of 16, Saini, 28, was on track to study engineering when the then eighth grader was waylaid by a Smith & Wesson instrumental on Rap City. “It hit me like a ton of bricks,” he recalls. “It was ‘Soundboy Burial,’ and I heard that instrumental and my life changed. That was it. I was convinced this is what I…

East West: The Brown Underground – 1

Posted on July 1, 2010

Socially conscious hip-hop from the days of Public Enemy and N.W.A. seems to have all but vanished, replaced with the glamour of being a “G” – complete with tales of sexual conquests, gold plated grills, non-stop parties, drugs, alcohol, and of course more “bling bling.” But there’s a revival bubbling up across North America – and it has its roots firmly grounded in South Asian America. From L.A. to Toronto to D.C., young men of the Sikh faith have taken up the mantel of hip-hop, writing powerful tracks about oppression, racism, and politics. Their music is informed by Sikh philosophies such as miri-piri, a religious tenet that advocates political and social activism to benefit society alongside individual spirituality. “I think it’s impossible to be…

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