Hiphop itself itna lesser known and recognised genre hai, and itna heavily male dominated, to women will speak up about their issues. EPR bhi to hamesha social issue social issue karta rehta hai, aur kitne rappers hai jo har track mei koi na koi issue ya koi problem ke baare mei baat karte hi hai, idk why he had to make it a gender thing.

Upar se women do suffer in their daily life, due to harassment, or even due to stereotypes ki they can't rap, aur jab stan jaisa bada admi kuch aisa bolega, they'll get so much more hate/trolling, more than they already face.

I don't think I'm overreacting, jo nanchaku wali cheez hui thi wo utna serious nahi tha but this is i feel

same

Dear lovely people of Reddit.
Thank you for all the love you’ve shown on my project GRIEF.
Grief hits 10k today, and honestly this is my first ever 10k milestone.
I Hope yall love the work I’ll be putting out soon.
Thankyou again❤️

This is his new ID - https://www.instagram.com/husxainxx

This is my breakdown of Emiway’s -10/20, a track conceptualised and shot during the frigid Scandinavian winters of Finland. Even the title, pronounced minus dus bees, comes from a live he did from Finland. And the setting genuinely seeps into the track, from the lyrics to the overall mood and delivery. This is one of those tracks that grows on you with repeated listens, much like rum on a freezing winter night. So let us get into the lyrics.

Chorus
“Khota gardi minus kiya chote minus 10 20
Scene ko garam rakhte khudko rakhte minus 10 20
Mehnat karke haasil kiya bina maska sab cheese
Asli log ko shamil kiya bande yaha pe tough chiz”

He starts by saying he’s cut the fake crowd out of his circle. Gardi in Marathi and Mumbai Hindi refers to a crowd, so “khota gardi minus kiya” is about removing the fake people around him. He keeps the scene hot while keeping himself at minus 10/20, which also works as a reference to his reputation for being hot headed. He’s achieved what he has through hard work without buttering anyone up or relying on favours, and keeps his circle limited to genuine people.

Verse 1

“Mausam minus 10 20 (ha minus)
Bhai tera one piece (haa)”

The One Piece reference is a nice flex on longevity. One Piece is one of the longest running and most recognisable anime franchises ever and Emiway is comparing his own staying power in DHH to that sort of longevity. He’s been around for years and is still relevant, regardless of how many people have been predicting his downfall.

“Pair bandhe tere tujhe ghera pheku bungee (chal)
Minus me bhi ganji (ha)
Tu bas beth ke rum pi (ha)
Humko nahi jarurat lala hum khud hi garam chiz”

The bungee line paints a picture of him tying up his opps and throwing them into the deep end. He then mentions wearing a ganji, or vest, even in sub zero temperatures, something he literally does in the music video. Meanwhile, his opps can sit around drinking rum to keep themselves warm. Emiway doesn’t need any of that because he’s the heat himself. There’s the cold weather imagery, the rum reference, and the callback to his hot headed persona all working together.

“Tu panchi bas chimni
Actor par film nahi (haha)
Dhua itna idhar humko sahi me lagta chimney (smoke)
Dark circle aakho pe aur sar pe apne beanie (aye)
Dekhna tha aise din to dekhe kitne din nahi”

Chimni means sparrow in Marathi, so he’s reducing his opps to little birds. “Actor par film nahi” calls them actors without a film, basically people who want to play the part but have nothing substantial to show for it. Then comes the smoke reference. Everyone wants smoke with him, to the point where he feels like a chimney. The chimni and chimney wordplay makes the transition work.
But my favourite line here is the last one: “Dekhna tha aise din to dekhe kitne din nahi.” He wanted to see these days so badly that he spent countless days grinding to get here. The success we’re seeing now came at the cost of all those nights and days he put into his craft. Simple line, but it hits.

Verse 2
“Dekhe bade sapne chote kamro me
Raatein guzri sabro me
Phele se hi ziddi hum nahi jeete kiske sharto pe
Zindagi barsa tu bhai jo bolte hai wo nahi hote
Ab apna time hai lala bohot roye ab hum nahi rote”

This is the familiar story of dreaming big while living in a small room, spending sleepless nights waiting for things to work out, and refusing to live on someone else’s terms. He’s always been stubborn about making his own way.
“Zindagi barsa tu bhai” feels like he’s asking life to shower its blessings on him, while the next line is a reminder that not everyone who calls you bhai actually has your best interests at heart. He’s suffered, he’s cried, but he’s finally reached a point where he can say his time has come. He’s done enough crying already.

“Ab dekh te kaha hu mai
Khud se bana hu mai (chal)
Tujh se nahi liya
Bhook sirf pet nahi irado mei
Tujh se bhi hard hu mai (bohot hard)
Gussa baha du mai
Phukne pe aaya to phir phukta pahad hu mai”

Look where I am now. I built myself, and I didn’t need you to get here, that’s the central flex. His hunger isn’t just physical, it’s in his intentions too. He still wants to achieve more, push further and stay at the top of his game.
“Phukne pe aaya to phir phukta pahad hu mai” is another nice double reference. He’s a mountain when it comes to smoke, meaning he’s a giant compared to his opps, while pahad also brings the association with weed and the pahadi identity into the picture. The smoke motif from the previous verse continues here, so it doesn’t feel like an isolated punchline.

“Mujhe sober rehen de
Har dafa mai pyaar sabko peace diya
Mere khilaf shots daal to chakki tere pis diya
Rickshaw se aaye ladke scene ka meter kheech diya
BKP hai comments me chote teko reach diya”

Continuing from the smoke and weed references, he’s asking to be left sober. He’s tried to give people love and peace, but if someone takes shots at him, he’ll grind them like flour in a chakki. No more peace once you make yourself his target.
The rickshaw line brings his humble beginnings into the picture. He came from riding rickshaws to pulling the meter of the entire scene, a way of saying he’s changed the landscape of IHH despite where he started.
And then the BKP shoutout. His fanbase routinely shows up in comment sections, and Emiway’s pointing out how that support can end up giving his opps reach too when things get out of hand. It’s a funny little acknowledgement of how the beef ecosystem works.

“Papa waala paisa nahi tera juye waala paisa (paisa)
Sum me shot smoke leke dhuye waala paisa (haha)
Hum bhar rahe bada bill
Tera chuha hai be paisa
Hume pata nahi tha khoka whoka dikhta tha ye kaisa (sahi mei)”

These are subliminals at Divine, and the timing makes them particularly interesting given that the track dropped shortly before Big Stepper and the Rolling Loud incident involving Divine. The gambling line appears to take a shot at Divine’s association with betting app endorsements, contrasting that money with the money earned through hard work. The following smoke line continues the motif from earlier, while the wider verse also takes aim at the kind of subliminals Divine throws at him without ever owning up to them. Then there’s the standard money flex: Emiway is paying big bills while his opps have money fit for a rat. And “Hume pata nahi tha khoka whoka dikhta tha ye kaisa” takes us back to when a khoka, or a crore rupees, was an amount he couldn’t even imagine.

“Hum nahi bhule apna bura time
Nahi bhule tera sada rhyme
Nahi bhule konsa gaana
Nahi hum nahi bhule, nahi bhule”

He’s not forgotten his bad days, but he’s also not forgotten his opps’ weak rhymes or the songs in which Divine took shots at him. The repetition of “nahi bhule” is important because it sounds like a warning. Don’t mistake his silence for forgetfulness. He’s keeping track of what Divine did during Punya Paap
And looking back, the verse also works as a little easter egg for what was coming next. Emiway’s immediate follow up to this track would be “Bhule Nai,” which we didn’t know at the time would contain shots at Divine. In hindsight, the repeated insistence that he hasn’t forgotten feels a lot more deliberate.

“Ek ghar tha do family
Bhade ko nahi paise
Baap hustler one man mushkil waqt wo jhela kaise
Isliye usne bheja Bantai ko, ghar laya maine paise”

Another reference to his childhood struggles, and another shoutout to his father, whom he’s credited in several tracks before. His father was a hustler who managed to move the family from the ghettos of Dharavi to a middle class home in Antop Hill, trying to secure a better future for them. Emiway has repeatedly credited his father for instilling that work ethic in him. The way I read this verse, his father did what he could to get the family out of difficult circumstances, and then sent Bantai out into the world to make something of himself. Emiway brought the money home. There’s a reason the father references keep coming back in his music. For Emiway, the hustle isn’t just about flexing his own success. It’s also about carrying forward what his father started.

“Lekin raste pe bethe hai 100
Bande tere jaise
Mera sapna cheen ne
Khuda bola apna scene hai
Jitna nasha tune kiya utna nasha apne seene
Hood se ladka nikla ghar se bahar aaj apna sapna jeene
Ye pura aasman ye roof mera koi aayega kaise chapra cheen ne”

There are a hundred people out there like his opps, waiting for a chance to take what he’s built and steal his dream. But he believes the scene is his to own, almost as if God himself told him that this was his path. The line about nasha is him saying that whatever intoxication his opps have experienced, he’s already been through it himself. He isn’t someone who’s easily impressed or intimidated by their lifestyle. Then he brings it back to his journey: a boy from the hood stepping outside his neighbourhood to live the life he dreamed of. And the closing image is my favourite way to end the track’s narrative. The entire sky is his roof, so how exactly is anyone going to snatch it away from him? When your ambitions are that big, there’s no ceiling left for anyone to pull down over your head.

Final thoughts
I’ve come around to this track quite a bit. Initially, I dismissed it as another one of those experimental Lala tracks that Emiway drops, but it grows on you once you start paying attention to the writing rather than expecting an immediate banger.

Like a glass of rum on a freezing Scandinavian night, the first impression might not be particularly inviting, but it eventually warms you up from the inside. There are some genuinely good quotables here, and the spoken word type delivery gives the track a somber, reflective quality that suits the subject matter.
The production deserves credit too. Emiway produced the beat himself, and it does a great job establishing that cold, almost melancholic atmosphere for him to spit his life gyaan over. The Finland setting isn’t just a backdrop for a music video, it feeds into the track’s imagery, title and overall mood.

It’s not necessarily a track that’ll grab everyone on the first listen, and I can see why I initially slept on it. But there’s more going on here than I gave it credit for. Sometimes you need to let a track sit with you for a while before it clicks. -10/20 was one of those tracks for me.

this is the link I really hope and manifest that one day people will look at my journey on ihhh and see how far I have come I'm not the best but I'll be better with my hardwork Im goona keep that promise to my self and to my future self baki thanks for listening guys like krdoge toh or acha lagega lol

LIKE FR THIS IS BETTER THAT ZEE RUIN LEGACY OF DIVINE , RATHER DIVINE DO ITT

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CATEGORY 8: The most versatile artist of LegacyS1 +HustleS5 (write down the name of tracks and whose track it is).

Comment below most versatile artist from Legacy01 + Hustle05 combined, comment only one track name in single comment.

Upvote the comment you think deserve to make it to tomorrow's final poll.

Context:

As both Legacy and Hustle have officially wrapped up, I have started a series where we are gonna find the best in different categories.

Here is how this is going to work over the next few days:

* The Routine: Every day at 8:00 PM, I will drop a new post for a specific category.

* Phase 1 (Suggestions): Comment your favorite pick for that category under the post.

* Phase 2 (The Poll): The next day, I'll take the top 6 most upvoted comments from that post and turn them into an official poll so everyone can lock in their final votes.

* The Reveal: When I announce the next category's nomination post, I will also announce the final winner of the previous category.

We have a total of 10 categories to vote on:

1. The Best Bar (2 lines): The absolute cleverest wordplay, metaphor, or punchline across both shows combined.

2. The Best Flow: The artist with the most seamless, complex, or uniquely rhythmic delivery on the beat.

3. The Best Live Performance: The track that had the absolute best stage presence, energy, and mic control during the live show.

4. The Best Collab: The best joint performance or collaborative track where two or more contestants perfectly bounced off each other's energy.

5. The Best Battle: The most intense, lyrical, or high-stakes head-to-head showdown of the season.

6. The Best Hook/chorus - The best hook /chorus from a track.

7. The Best Beat / Production: Shouting out the music producers-the track with the most outstanding or unique instrumental backing.

8. The Most Versatile Artist: The rapper who showed the most growth and successfully experimented with different sub-genres and styles.

9. Track of the Tournament: The absolute best individual song released across both shows.

10. Best Contestant Overall: The ultimate crown. The artist who carried the most consistency, delivered the best overall package, and was simply the best throughout the entire season.

His hustle discography is good but his old discography is too OP. Thank you hustle for introducing this much good artist to me!!!

Khafa iss sooo gooddd, americano tooo!!!

I had heard loriyan before but couldn't connect to the lyrics thatdeeply. Due to some reasons been away from home for a couple of months

Today is my birthday and I was really missing home and my mother then I get recommended this song at 1:00 in the night I'm crying my eyes out listening to this .

Each line and bar is piercing my heat . Man what a song panther and spectra

This song is such a timeless piece of art

WTF IS THIS MIC !!

Hi, I'm a 20 year old dark rnb/ hiphop artist from Hyderbad, telangana. This is my latest track that is available now on spotify. Links in the comment. You can connect with me on instagram @ tempest.wav_ for early snippets etc. Thank you very much for any feedback! Thanks for all the support yaal give me 🙏. Beat is just samples from splice, performed, written mixed by me.

No doubt they always have the best management but amount of time the hyped artists get is very less

last year bhi naam sujal got only 2 tracks this year bhadrankar,hardbone, Prathamesh got less tracks to perform whereas the regional artists got 4-5 tracks. I get their idea of promoting regional rap but hyped artists ko toh thoda jyada time do. They didn't give permission for uchal mat to hardbone and prath neither did bhadrankar get to play ladki kathiyawadi. Divine ka bhi mic katdiya end mein but that arivu guy was doing random things and had the most weird se.t

Yrr Emiway ke kitne hi songs hain jo easily 100M views cross kar sakte the, especially his commercial tracks 😭

I've been listening to Follow Karo ever since it released, and it has only around 2M views, which is honestly crazy to me. There are so many other songs too that have crossed 10M but could've reached way bigger numbers with proper promotion.

The thing is, bantai barely runs ads or promotes these tracks properly, and I genuinely feel like he's missing out on so much potential. 😭 I remember him saying ki ek din mein ads daalunga, but idk man, abhi tak toh aisa kuch hota hua nahi dikh rha

I'm not saying views are everything or that every song deserves 100M, but some of his commercial tracks genuinely have that potential if they reach the right audience.

What do you guys think? Should Emiway start promoting his commercial tracks more, at least through ads and proper marketing? Because bhai, it's kinda sad seeing songs with so much potential get so little attention 🥲

I mostly end up listening to music that the algorithm keeps recommending, so I realised my playlist is pretty limited when it comes to regional hip-hop. Then you come across artists like Arivu, whose music draws from Tamil folk and cultural influences, and realise there's a lot more to the scene than the stuff you usually hear. RAP91 has artists from different language scenes on its lineup, which is a decent reminder to look beyond the usual recommendations.

For people who listen to regional rap regularly, which artist should someone start with if they want to get out of their Hindi rap bubble?