{"id":6409,"date":"2011-01-23T23:56:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T04:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6409"},"modified":"2011-01-24T03:24:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T08:24:24","slug":"slumgod_mandeep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/23\/slumgod_mandeep\/","title":{"rendered":"Slumgod Mandeep Sethi Drops the Boom Bap Rap"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Poor<\/a>\nThis past Friday, Bay Area Sikh-American hip-hop lyricist Mandeep Sethi<\/a> dropped his latest album Poor Peoples Planet<\/em>, a concept album produced by X9 of Xitanos Matematikos<\/em><\/a> that weaves in the teaching Jiddu Krishnamurti<\/a>, Punjabi gypsy origins, and classical elements of hip hop. At only 22 years old, Mandeep has already developed a strong base of followers having appeared on stage with artists such as Ziggy Marley<\/a> and Dead Prez<\/a> and having jumped on the mic with folks I’ve written about before such as Humble the Poet<\/a>, Sikh Knowledge<\/a> and Ras Ceylon<\/a>. You can get Poor Peoples Planet<\/em> on iTunes later this week and if you visit Mandeep’s BandCamp <\/a>you can download the album now. Still not sure? Check out the single below Moving Swiftly, Guerrilla Tactics<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n

<\/param> <\/param> <\/embed> <\/object> [Moving Swiftly::][GuerillaTactics][POORPEOPLESPLANET<\/a> by mandeep.sethi.music<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Full disclosure, I’ve been helping get the word out for Poor Peoples Planet<\/em> and am excited to support a young Desi American whose lyrics are smart, conscious, and inspired by the hyphenated identity. But in the course of hanging out with Mandeep this week, I was really impressed to find out that he is one of the co-founders of Slumgods<\/em><\/a>. Based in India, Slumgods<\/em> was founded in 2010 as the first B-Boy collective in India bringing together emcees, breakers, artists of India and America. The Slumgods<\/em> are bringing it hard and fresh using the the five elements of hip hop as a tool of empowerment for the slum youth in the Dharavi slums with a community center called Tiny Drops Hip Hop Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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