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