Eminem signs Indian Rapper Hard Kaur to Shady

She is India’s only female rapper and has recently made a huge impact in Bollywood in Singh is Kinng and Ugly Aur Pagli. As more films line-up for release, Hard Kaur has signed with Eminem’s Shady Aftermath records and will collaborate with D-12 for her upcoming solo album.

Hard Kaur, who has sung in the past says, “I’m not a singer, I’m a rapper. In many ways, rapping is more difficult than conventional singing,” says Kaur, who has sung in Kismet Konnection, Haal-e-Dil and Bachna Ae Haseeno. While she debuted with a single called Glassy over a year ago, her fresh voice made listeners sit up when Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy roped her in for the hip-hop song Move your body in Johnny Gaddar. “The SEL trio was willing to take a risk and the journey has been really good so far. People are now beginning to understand rapping,” she says. On the insistence that she keep singing instead of rapping she says, “Nobody can bully me into singing what I hate. I eat, sleep, s*** hip hop and I want to keep it just that way”

She released her first album Supawoman last October and her second one, still untitled, will hit the stores by the end of this year. “My second album has some interesting collaborations with artists I have always wanted to work with. It’s India’s way forward in a genre that’s considered to be either for blacks or whites. The browns are here with some old school hip-hop,” she smiles.

Her new album has t D-12 on her track Desi dance, as well as producing it. “Their management had seen my songs and videos on the Internet and we had been talking for a while,” says Kaur about the track that was recorded in Detroit and New York.

Kaur is unsure what role, if any, Eminem might play in her new, untitled album. “It’s his label, but we’ll decide when I meet him on my next trip.”

Her rapping has been getting rave reviews and when asked if hip hop is the future in India she says, “The youth is all for hip-hop. It’s not a passing phase. Hip-hop will always survive.”

Source: http://fullofhiphop.com/?p=492