George Harrison may be dead, but Americans can’t help but turn their heads, as he did, toward India for spiritual and artistic inspiration. Madonna attends self-help seminars with Deepak Chopra, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Mother Jones: How is your music received by Punjabi elders and your family back in ...

Like peanut butter and chocolate, every once in a while two great tastes come together creating a new, intoxicating flavor. English disc jockey Rajinder Rai, aka Panjabi MC, has become an ...

Known worldwide as a pioneer in the global popularization of traditional Punjabi music merged with hip hop, R & B, and dance, Panjabi MC was one of the first Asian artists to take Bhangra to the next ...

His most famous record Mundian To Bach Ke charted in the top ten in most countries around the world, reaching the number one spot in Italy and Belgium as well as selling 100,000 units in Germany for ...

From Mumbai to Mount Pleasant, hip-hop MCs often shout out the names of their home towns, neighborhoods or other signifiers of regional identity. Most of the cries have more street cred than one heard ...

Bend it like Jay-Z. On his latest single, Beware of the Boys, the American rapper busts his rhymes over East Asian rhythms called bhangra, the infectious, electronic updating of India's Punjabi folk ...

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Panjabi MC Talks Making “Beware” With Jay-Z A Decade After Its Release, Working With DJ Premier While a big name in increasingly rap-savvy India, most American hip-hop fans probably best know Panjabi ...