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Like other rappers, we don’t drink, smoke or shoot up.

In a city where rock bands and western culture attain immense popularity and fame, the rappers from Dharavi are striving for identity. The boy band Sout Dandy Squad.

Dharavi has a huge Tamil population, and the majority of these rappers belong to the community. They call themselves Sout Dandy “South is where we come from, and we are dandy meaning excessively concerned about clothes and appearance to be the best” says Rau (Surya). Although the boys follow simplicity but fancy trendy names like international rappers Sean (Suresh Agalianbose), ML (Rahul), Rau (Surya), MO (Manoharan), Havoc (Kanakaraj) and Raze (Kamaraj).

“Rap till I die/step up and fly/ waving ur ma/distinguish and celebrate/multiculture and cooperate/ they call me Tamilian/and that’s how I operate.” says Sean humming his favorites lyrics.

The Squad use “Tamil electro music” as a medium to convey their views on social issues of India .Their inspiration and existence is the ‘D block’ (Dharavi) .The Sout Dandy Squad are well equipped DJs and perform graceful hip-hop and krump.

Sout Dandy raps in English and Tamil. They believe like every other music form has its time and generation India now calls for “rap”. Apart for rapping the boys aspire professional careers too. One of them is a Masters in Chattered Accountancy (MCA) student while others work in firms as administrative staff and call centre representatives.

With the limelight attained after Danny Boyles “Slum Dog Millionaire” Black Eyed Peas remixed one song in their album Elefunk, which they claim to be their biggest achievement. Another feather in their cap was their last year, live stage performance with members of international Timbaland Productions and Apache Indian. They’ve also contributed music to the movie “Quick Gun Murugun”.

The band iconize “American gangsta rap” which convey the problems of their country through music. They aim to strike the same chords Sean says. Our lyrics focus mainly our experiences and lives, beliefs living in Dharavi

Raze said “We make all the music in our tiny not so well equipped studio at Kandivali with our native instruments and music software our latest composed 10 original tunes are just in the production stage which is has bilingual lyrics Tamil-English titled “Respect or Hate”. Our constant urge is to keep creating new styles says ML.

With constant efforts and changing with the boy band is rewarded with financial aid from various non-government organization after ‘Slumdog Millionaire.’ With more aid coming in the band aims to set-up well equipped studio and create more music tracks.

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