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Indian influence in hip-hop

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Have you noticed the Indian influence in hip-hop? It's seriously getting insane now, where every single album has at least one Indian influenced song. I knew my culture was dope, but that dope? Well yeah haha! Timbaland sluts the Indian culture like none other and easily does the most with it. Unlike Dj Quik with 'Addictive' he doesn't steal a whole Indian song, he samples voices and makes his own Indian beats. The beats are so unbelievably dope and sound even phatter with the Indian singers in the background. Timbaland got Raje Swari (Indian singer) to sing a hook on a normal hip-hop beat on the remix to 'Disco'. My god! It's pure genius. Some other random hip-hop tracks with Indian influence include: J. Timberlake 'What you got' Apathy 'DSL' Slum Village ft. Ms Jade and Raje Shwari 'Disco Remix' Lil Kim ft. Styles 'Get In Touch With Us' Erick Sermon 'React' Jay-Z 'The Bounce' I notice Timbo running this list. Look for Indian hip-hop to continue running shit until someone like Puff Daddy ruins it.

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This story circulated on the newsgroup rec.music.hip-hop and reached the archive on April 3, 2003. It is reproduced as posted — headlines, typos and all. The post did not credit a source; this story is preserved as it reached the newsgroup.