The part indian hip hop story we got wrong @rohancariappaDHH | Desibels EP 05
Mar 31, 2026•Channel
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Published2 months ago
Duration50:24
Video IDKjA_psDaaDo
Languageen
CategoryEntertainment
PrivacyPublic
Made for KidsNo
Video TypeRegular Video
Performance Metrics
Views5.2K
Likes352
Comments61
Engagement Rate7.98%
Likes per 100 views6.80
Comments per 1K views11.78
Video Tags
#scoopwhoop#bollywood songs#hip hop#hip hop music#indian rap#hindi rap#bollywood remix#desi hip hop#2000s bollywood songs#bollywood nostalgia#bollywood hip hop#indian underground rap#indian rap music history#90s bollywood songs classics#desi hip hop documentary india#honey singh#ar rahman#kishore kumar#seedhe maut#mc stan
Description
Before Seedhe Maut sold out Delhi, there was Honey Singh and before that there was Kishore Kumar??
what happened between eras is the story Indian hip hop never officially told.
In this episode of Desibels, ScoopWhoop traces the real history of Indian hip hop, full of industry nostalgia from its Bollywood rap origins to the underground rap India scene that took the genre back, doing a full cultural autopsy.
Indian rap music didn't start just in the streets. It started in film studios, where catchy hooks were written to sell movies. But a generation of artists refused to let it stay there. We chart how desi hip hop moved from party anthems to protest, from playback singers to MCs spitting bars that actually meant something.
The Honey Singh era gave India a taste of rap loud, commercial, inescapable. Then came the shift. Artists like Seedhe Maut and the underground rap movement rebuilt the genre from the ground up, on their own terms, in their own language.
Is this how industry found its hip hop soul?
Time Stamps:
0:00-1:23 -Episode Finale Intro
1:23-5:23 -Topic/Concept
5:24-16:32-Phase 1
16:33-34:53-Phase 2
34:54-47:35-Phase 3
47:36-50:12-Hustle Tribute
50:12-50:27-Outro
Guest:
Rohan Cariappa
Concept, Written, Directed & Hosted by:
Sundaresh Kaushik
Executive producer:
Vivekanand Kilari
Creative Producer:
Sohail Karwar
Showrunner :
Sundaresh Kaushik
Production Manager:
Arpita Ganguly
DOP:
Amey Patil
Mehul Pramod
HMU:
Khusboo Agarwal
Editor / Visual Direction:
Binil Krishna
Sound design:
Mohak Jagtap
Location:
AudioKraft
Special thanks to the audio engineers at AudioKraft
Desibels is ScoopWhoop's original series exploring the 5 pillars of hip hop through the lens of Indian culture.
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