![]() ![]() I was amazed he was down with it like that." "To think that someone like Jay-Z is going to be bouncing on a bhangra beat, it's amazing, very groundbreaking. "For the bhangra crowd in the U.K., we don't even know that anyone outside our community is down with it," he told The Associated Press during a trip to New York. Panjabi, born Rajinder Rai, was amazed to find out a rapper of Jay-Z's status wanted to rhyme on his bhangra track. The resulting remix has made it onto American radio, moving bhangra from its mostly South Asian audience into the mainstream. That was where megastar Jay-Z heard it earlier this year and decided he wanted to drop some verses on it. ![]() ![]() The song, "Mundian To Bach Ke," which translates as "Beware of the Boys," crept out of the bhangra scene into European clubs. When he put the sounds together in 1998, "I knew it sounded right."Īpparently, the world agrees. But the 27-year-old rapper and producer from Coventry, England was the first to mix "Knight Rider" with bhangra, the drum-heavy harvest music that originated out of Punjab, the same part of India his parents are from. ![]()
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