s hip-hop grew into a global phenomenon, it started a cross-cultural fusion of styles with Indian and Punjabi music used in samples and popular rappers from the West featuring on homegrown tracks. One ...

From Mumbai to Mount Pleasant, hip-hop MCs often shout out the names of their home towns, neighborhoods or other signifiers of regional identity. Most of the cries have more street cred than one heard ...

Popular for his many international projects, Panjabi MC is finally rapping a track for a Hindi film It seems that these days everyone wants a slice of Bollywood. Even Panjabi MC — the guy who sung ...

At the centre of that sonic revolution was British-Indian producer and performer Panjabi MC, whose fusion of bhangra, hip-hop, and electronic music transformed club culture in the early 2000s and ...

While a big name in increasingly rap-savvy India, most American hip-hop fans probably best know Panjabi MC from his international hit “Mundian To Bach Ke” (“Beware of the Boys”), to which Jay-Z ...

TORONTO - Ikwinder Singh is too young to remember the last time Punjabi music was on the cusp of breaking into the mainstream in Canada. The 23-year-old producer was only a baby when rapper Jay-Z ...