{"id":451,"date":"2008-09-11T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2008\/09\/11\/singh-is-king-snoop-is-dogg\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:24:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:24:16","slug":"singh-is-king-snoop-is-dogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2008\/09\/11\/singh-is-king-snoop-is-dogg\/","title":{"rendered":"Singh is King, Snoop is Dogg"},"content":{"rendered":"

I swear I’m kicking myself for not catching Singh is King<\/span> in theaters, because apparently I missed this collaboration<\/a> between two great cultural traditions.
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\nBack when I was buying random CDs from the Indian grocery, I noticed that there were typically two kinds of music available. The bulk of course was soundtrack music, but there were also quite a lot of Bollywood remixes, incorporating drum and bass dancetracks, or electronic bhangra beats, as often as it used samples from Bollywood songs.<\/p>\n

Invariably these remixes totally rocked. I interpreted the occasional hip-hop sound samples as a cultural novelty. In the same way that American hip-hop sometimes uses "world music" samples because they seem weird and exotic, I thought that Indian DJs added western samples because they seemed weird and exotic.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m not so sure. From listening to the BBC Asian Network, I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s an incredibly rich culture of Indian hip-hop that jet-sets between London and Mumbai. Take a look at this music festival page<\/a> on the BBC Asian Network.
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\nThese aren’t provincial imitators of American culture. These are people who are cooler than us, who are merging the classic elements of Indian music with a global culture.<\/p>\n

Once again, Snoop Dogg shows that he knows what side of the bread his awesome is on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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