In late 2024, Mumbai/Pune rapper Shreyas Sagvekar received a call from a French friend, who was visiting Dubai. The friend had gone out clubbing the night before and heard a track playing over the PA ...

Turn the volume up. India is in the middle of an epic hip-hop takeover. The music – in English and regional languages – was among the top four most-streamed genres in the country, with 490 billion ...