{"id":2287,"date":"2005-09-26T23:50:20","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T04:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2287"},"modified":"2005-10-27T15:41:55","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T20:41:55","slug":"british_asian_m_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/26\/british_asian_m_1\/","title":{"rendered":"British Asian Music Comes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In continuing the mutiny&#8217;s hommage to the UK today, an in trying to steer clear of the all MIA all the time, I salute the Sheffield-based South Asian producers, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kraytwinz.co.uk\">Kray Twinz<\/a>, who were scheduled to&nbsp;make an appearance at the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobo.com\/\">Music of Black Origin (MOBO)<\/a> awards show to promote their latest single, <em>What We Do<\/em>.&nbsp;\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kraytwinz.co.uk\/gallery.asp?foldid=indian_summer\"><u><img align=right vspace=20 hspace=10 alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/KrayTwinz.jpg\"\/>\n<\/u><\/a>\n Yes the two British sardars who (silently) co-produced Panjabi MC&#8217;s Mundian To Bach Ke and Backstabbers&nbsp;are at it again. This time however the silencers are off, and Sepia Friendly MC Twista along with grime specialist&nbsp;MC Lethal Bizzle and ragga rapper Gappy Ranks&nbsp;are dropping the lyrics on top of a&nbsp;tabla and&nbsp;kanye west influenced&nbsp;sped-up-vocal-hip hop beat.&nbsp; The tune, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kraytwinz.co.uk\/music\/whatwedo.mp3\">What We Do<\/a><\/em>, which is getting some heavy airplay in the UK, and is also being&nbsp;dropped in American clubs could mean the resurgence of desi production in mainstream hip-hop.&nbsp; Or it could just mean the Kray Twinz are finally getting some recogntion for their production.&nbsp; Regardless, <em>What We Do<\/em> is only the first single off of the Kray Twinz forthcoming&nbsp;debut album,<em> Indian Summer <\/em>and if the Twinz photogallery is any indication of who they will collaborate with on <em>Summer, <\/em>lookout for appearances&nbsp;from the Pharcyde, Truth Hurts, and DMX. <\/p>\n\n<p>Check out the music website pitchforkmedia&#8217;s mention of <em>What We Do <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitchforkmedia.com\/features\/themonthin\/dancehall\/09-21-05.shtml\">here<\/a>, and&nbsp;check out the video for the track, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kraytwinz.co.uk\/videos2.asp?vidid=4\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In continuing the mutiny&#8217;s hommage to the UK today, an in trying to steer clear of the all MIA all the time, I salute the Sheffield-based South Asian producers, the Kray Twinz, who were scheduled to&nbsp;make an appearance at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/26\/british_asian_m_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}