{"id":12072,"date":"2014-10-23T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desihiphop.com\/?p=12072"},"modified":"2014-10-23T00:29:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T07:29:41","slug":"labels-dont-want-desis-asian-artists-except-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/labels-dont-want-desis-asian-artists-except-one\/000015","title":{"rendered":"Labels Don&#8217;t Want Desi or Asian Artists&#8230; Except this One!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russell Simmon<\/strong>s wrote: &#8220;Whenever we saw, or heard, or felt elements that seemed authentic or inspirational, we took them and turned them into Hip Hop.&#8221; That&#8217;s the essence of Hip Hop. I caught this little tid-bit of wisdom while\u00a0reading Russell Simmons&#8217; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Do-You-Achieve-Happiness-Success\/dp\/1592403689\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1414048275&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=do+you+russell+simmons\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Do You<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;, and\u00a0it\u00a0caught my attention because\u00a0he used that particular paragraph to express his way of thinking back in the day during the inception of his Hip Hop clothing line, &#8220;Phat Farm&#8221;.\u00a0Hip Hop is an inspirational genre of music, it always has been. Since day 1, Hip Hop artists did their best to break the mold, or break barriers.<\/p>\n<p>But, what happened now? Why are more and more labels focused on breaking away from that and are focusing in on the drug dealers, and the gangstas? Okay, maybe even <em>that<\/em> image has changed now, but the mainstream Hip Hop now focuses on partying, girls, limos, and champagne bottles. So, when Desi artists come out and talk about real music, they get completely looked over and ignored.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboom.com\/boos\/2586093-labels-don-t-want-middle-eastern-mcs\/embed\/v3?eid=AQAAAKVySFTtdScA\" data-boowidth=\"100%\" data-maxheight=\"150\" data-iframestyle=\"background-color:transparent; display:block; min-width:320px; max-width:700px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/boos\/2586093-labels-don-t-want-middle-eastern-mcs\">listen to \u2018Labels Don&#8217;t Want Middle-Eastern MCs\u2019 on audioBoom<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"https:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/cdn\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Real Vs Fake<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Artists who talk about real experiences seem to have no place in the Hip Hop industry at large. Even artists based in the United States like <a href=\"http:\/\/desihiphop.com\/?s=bohemia\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bohemia<\/strong><\/a>, or<a href=\"http:\/\/desihiphop.com\/?s=lazarus\" target=\"_blank\"> <strong>Lazarus<\/strong><\/a>, or<a href=\"http:\/\/desihiphop.com\/2014\/10\/ah-murda-i-sick-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <strong>I-Sick<\/strong><\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/desihiphop.com\/2014\/09\/ali-kulture-drops-banger-american-dreamin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ali Kulture<\/strong><\/a>, seem to be treated like foreigners in their own land. As artists like them share their experiences of\u00a0the &#8216;American Dream&#8217;, it seems as though their experiences are not meant for the world\u00a0to hear. It&#8217;s as if what they say has no merit just because of their ethnicity or upbringing. As we can see from the audio snippet from Lazarus&#8217; interview with Chuck D above, labels are not interested in his real stories of being a Doctor. Labels aren&#8217;t interested in the stories told in the east &#8211; in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>If we placed <strong>Bohemia<\/strong> in a room with <strong>Timbaland<\/strong> and asked him to rap about the money, the cars, the paid models, and the\u00a0expensive liquor, I bet the\u00a0world of record labels would take notice and see what this Desi is all about. But, just because\u00a0artists like him\u00a0have real content, and real experiences to rap about, record labels feel the need to ignore it.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>DesiHipHop.com &#8211; Where All Artists Are Free To Express!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We, at DesiHipHop.com, could care less about the mainstream. We have a single goal in mind, and that&#8217;s &#8220;<strong>UNITY thru HIPHOP<\/strong>&#8220;. And how do we aim to achieve that? We aim to achieve that by allowing Desi artists all over the\u00a0world to express themselves completely, because we believe that as people share their stories, listeners will start to relate with that. We know that the more stories we release in the form of Hip Hop, the more people will relate to it. And, if we can get someone from<strong> India<\/strong> to relate to someone in <strong>Pakistan<\/strong>, or someone in <strong>Mumbai<\/strong>\u00a0to understand the struggles of\u00a0someone in\u00a0<strong>LA<\/strong>, or even someone from <strong>NY<\/strong> to feel the music by\u00a0someone in <strong>Bangladesh<\/strong>, then we have succeeded in our mission.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12073\" src=\"http:\/\/desihiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DHH-wallpaper-1024x562.jpg\" alt=\"DHH-wallpaper\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Bring &#8216;Em All! Let&#8217;s Start \u00a0A Revolution!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>So bring us all the Desi artists, the darkest and the brownest rappers, the Desi rappers who are so Desi that they\u00a0get to their studio sessions in a Rickshaw! Bring us the Desi rappers who celebrate Diwali before they record a song, and the Desi rappers who celebrate Eid while writing a rap verse, and the Desi rappers who write rhyme patterns on the way to church. Bring us the Desi producers who get home from a week-long wedding party in their chacha&#8217;s village to compose a beat. Bring them all to us, because we will surely spread their stories and make sure the world takes notice!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With love from DesiHipHop.com<br \/>\ninfo@DesiHipHop.com \u00a0| \u00a0DJRaf@DesiHipHop.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Simmons wrote: &#8220;Whenever we saw, or heard, or felt elements that seemed authentic or inspirational, we took them and turned them into Hip Hop.&#8221; That&#8217;s the essence of Hip Hop. I caught this little tid-bit of wisdom while\u00a0reading Russell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[7933],"class_list":["post-12072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}