Monday, March 3, 2025

Soul Sample (ARIatHOME)

This producer and the strikingly good frestylers make me feel like there should be a genre of music like this in Bengali. Fuad has gone to some length to promulgate that, with his hip-hop beats. But I think a problem with the Bengali language is that it is too polite, rounded and not abrasive enough for an aggressive genre like hip-hop, trap, rap, etc. Further there is deep social stigma about objectionable lyrics -- something the Hindi language freed itself of with nightclub culture, Westernization and the genius of Honey Singh. If there was an active community in the Bengali speaking world such as the Punjabi's, maybe we would have our own collection of hip-hop as well.

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