Rapper AnikKhan_ on his immigration story and the weight that comes with being a South Asian performer of a historically Black art form. PLUS, a look at his new music video! 👀⤵️
he started to make a name for himself. His music is catchy and diverse, sampling everything from Bollywood jams to Afrobeat.
Samhita Mukhopadhyay: So, this is your first release in two years. Tell me about the song. What inspired it?: You ever have those moments where you feel like you're counted out, or like everything's against you? You usually have like two options at that point. You could drown in it and let it take over you. You either could go down with that, or your other option is to own it and be like, "Are you going to do this sh*t regardless? Are you going to do this in spite of everything.
So I will never compare my plight to theirs because it is 100 percent completely different. But that doesn't take away the South Asians I've seen within the jail system. And that doesn't take away that if you look any kind of edgy, or if your hair is curlier than the straighter hair, and if you don't wear the J.Crew clothes and you wear the baggier sh*t or look any kind of influential or quote-unquote dangerous, that that sh*t can't happen to you.
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