{"id":4898,"date":"2007-12-12T11:53:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4898"},"modified":"2007-12-12T09:30:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T14:30:31","slug":"for_the_ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/for_the_ladies\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Ladies: &#8220;Tell Me What,&#8221; A DBD\/ABD Hip Hop Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the following video, which is currently in rotation on MTV India: \n<center><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rEh87uYuCB8&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rEh87uYuCB8&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>Who are all these people? I hadn&#8217;t heard of any of them: the producer and male rapper calls himself <a href=\"http:\/\/deepcds.com\/\">Deep<\/a> (he seems to be an ABD rapper). The woman singing in Hindi (with the short hair) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/pop\/top4\/pratichee.html\">Pratichee<\/a> (she is definitely a DBD). The woman singing R&amp;B style, in English, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelwordonline.com\/papi.html\">Janina Gavankar<\/a> (who has had a role on &#8220;The L Word&#8221;; she was also featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/003884.html\">an earlier Sepia Mutiny post by Abhi<\/a>). And the woman rapping &#8212; ferociously! &#8212; in Punjabi is <strong>Navraaz<\/strong> (could not find any links; I have no idea who she is).<\/p>\n\n<p>I won&#8217;t try and translate the Punjabi rap (any takers?), except to say that the English chorus (Back the **** off me) makes a good summary. (I might also add that the lyrics might make even Ms. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004827.html\">Hard Kaur <\/a> blush&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n<p>Incidentally, the label responsible for this track, IndiAudio, has made an MP3 available for downloading <a href=\"http:\/\/indiaudio.com\/featured\/tellmewhat.mp3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>What say you?<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the following video, which is currently in rotation on MTV India: Who are all these people? I hadn&#8217;t heard of any of them: the producer and male rapper calls himself Deep (he seems to be an ABD rapper). &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/for_the_ladies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}