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Nepalese Hip Hop
Nephop is the Nepalese form of hip hop. Its major elements include alternative hip hop, avant-grade hip hop, breakbeat, freestyling and DJing. Rap culture was introduced in Nepal through electronic DJs mixing the classical Nepalese songs with the Western urban style in the early eighties. Later, it took the form of artists releasing songs with commercial beats in the 1990s. History Popularity growth (early 2000s) The first Nepali rap song is considered to be "Batti Balera" by the comedian Ratan Subedi, released in 1995. In 2000, Girish Khatiwada and Pranil Timilsina started the rap culture. In 2000 Rappaz Union (Sammy Samrat and Nirnaya Shrestha created the first Nepalese rap album in English. In 2002, GP (Girish Khatiwada and Pranil L Timalsena) released the album ''Back Again''. The song "Ma Yesto Chhu Ma testo Chhu" featuring DA69 was the first rap song to attract broad Nepalese audiences to rap music. Another song on the album is "Timi Jaha Pani Jaanchhau". In 2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Diplomat
''The Diplomat'' is an international online news magazine covering politics, society, and culture in the Indo-Pacific region. It is based in Washington, D.C. It was originally an Australian bi-monthly print magazine, founded by Minh Bui Jones, David Llewellyn-Smith and Sung Lee in 2001, but due to financial reasons it was converted into an online magazine in 2009 and moved to Japan and later Washington, D.C. The magazine is currently owned by MHT Corporation. History ''The Diplomat'' was originally an Australian bi-monthly print magazine, founded by Minh Bui Jones, David Llewellyn-Smith and Sung Lee in 2001. The first edition was published in April 2002, with Bui Jones as the founding editor and Llewellyn-Smith the founding publisher. The magazine was acquired by James Pach through his company Trans-Asia Inc. in December 2007. Pach assumed the role of executive publisher and hired former ''Penthouse'' editor Ian Gerrard to update its presentation. Nonetheless, the print ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manas Ghale
Manas Ghale ( Nepali: मानस घले; born October 19, 1980) is a Nepalese rapper, singer and songwriter. He started his career in the year 2000. Awards and nominations *Won: Kantipur FM Awards *Won: Image FM Awards Discography *Sukeko Jiu Ma Loorey ko Bal *Manasick Medicine *Malai Maan Pardaina Timro Rap Tours *India * Hong Kong *South Korea *Dubai *Australia *USA *United Kingdom *Germany *Japan References 1984 births Living people Nepalese singer-songwriters Nepali-language singers Musicians from Kathmandu Nepalese hip hop singers Nepalese rappers {{Nepal-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nirnaya Shrestha
Nirnaya Shrestha ( ne, निर्णय श्रेष्ठ),known professionally as Nirnaya Da' NSK, is a Nepalese rapper and songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music .... NSK stands for ‘Naughty Soul Kid’ He and his team holds the record for "most scholarship distributed in the least time" which has been certified by the world book of records, london. He also participated Melancholy as a rapper, an environmental song by 365 Nepalese artists is written, music composed and directed by environmentalist Nipesh DHAKA. This song has been certified in Guinness World Record entitled "Most Vocal Solos in a Song Recording". References 21st-century Nepalese male singers Nepalese rappers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Nepali-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pranil L Timalsena
Pranil L Timalsena (Nepali: प्रनिल तिमल्सिना) is a Nepali singer and rapper. Girish-Pranil He started his musical career with Girish Khatiwada (NepHop) as the duo "GP-GirishPranil" in the 1990s. Their first song was ''Ma Yesto Chhu'' with rapper DA69, which was the first major success of rap music in Nepal. It laid the foundation of Nepalese hiphop music. Girish-Pranil made other songs like ''Timi Jaha Pani Jaanchhau'', ''Malai Bhot Deu'', ''Hami Dherai Sana Chhu'', ''Meaningless Rap''. Their other songs are ''Diyeko Maya Samhali'', ''Dream'', ''Gaarho Bho'', ''Intro'', ''Zoom Zoom Boom Boom'', ''Seto Ghoda'', ''Yesari'', and ''Track 13''. Other Collaboration Hits He made a song ''Aankha Bhari'' featuring rapper DA69 which was a hit in Nepal. He also made a feature to Nabin K Bhattarai Nabin K Bhattarai ( ne , नविन के भट्टराई; born March 14, 1972) is a Nepali singer, songwriter, and composer. Education Nabin Bhat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laure (Nepalese Rapper)
Ashish Rana (born 25 June 1989) known professionally as "Laure" is a Nepalese rapper and Television personality. He presented his rapping through a rap battle on YouTube which gained him popularity. He was the most searched Nepalese celebrity on Google in the year 2013 . Personal life Ashish Rana was born on 25 June 1989 in Pokhara, Nepal. Since Grade 6, Laure developed a keen interest in rapping. He completed his school life from the LA Higher Secondary School, then his higher education Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after comple ... from Sagarmatha College. His rapping career began through his song ''Mero Solta'', the first song he recorded. Because of his physical appearance, his friends gave him the moniker "Laure". He is also currently one of the judges of the Reality TV S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VTEN
Samir Ghising, better known by his stage name VTEN, is a Nepalese rapper and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the prominent figure of Nepalese hip hop. He started gaining popularity after release of his song "Churot" in 2016. His songs like ''Simsime Pani", "Paara", "Hami Yestai ta honi bro", "Yatra", "Haalkhabar", "Kaatha" etc are major hits. Early life Ghising was born in Rautahat. Ghising worked as a carpenter with his father, learning to make cupboards, doors, and windows from wood. As a teenager, Ghising moved to Kathmandu to study in high school, and also started painting Thankas with his uncle. In interviews, Ghising has said he became passionate about rapping while painting Thankas but began to have difficulty juggling that job with his expanding rap career. Ghising spent most of his pre-fame days living with his friends and writing rap songs. He is said to have completed his high school(+2) and has not continued his education thereafter. Career He has worked w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balen Shah
Balendra Shah ( ne, :ne:बालेन शाह, बालेन्द्र शाह), popularly known as Balen Shah or simply Balen, is a Nepalese Rapping, rapper, structural engineer and politician. He is currently serving as the 15th Mayor of Kathmandu, mayor of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Shah has been a popular figure in Nepalese hip hop, Nepalese hip-hop since the early 2010s. Shah announced his candidacy as an Independent politician, independent and was elected at the 2022 Kathmandu municipal election, 2022 local election, defeating Nepali Congress candidate Sirjana Singh and Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), CPN (UML) candidate Keshav Sthapit. He is the first mayor of Kathmandu to be elected as an independent candidate. Early life and education Shah was born on 27 April 1990 in Naradevi, Kathmandu. He is the youngest son of Ram Narayan Shah, an Ayurveda, Ayurvedic practitioner, and his wife Dhruvadevi Shah. His parents moved to Kathmandu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Khabar
Online Khabar is an independent private online news portal of Nepal established in 2006, providing news in Nepali and English languages. There is no print available from this media house. In 2014, it was one of the top 10 web news portal in Nepal. By 2020, it became the most viewed news portal from Nepal. The rise in online viewing of online newspapers including Online Khabar has been partially attributed to the Gorkha earthquake of 2015 during which the print media had stopped. The news agency actively advocates free journalism by taking part against media censorship by the state. The journalist of the media has been attacked by police in some incidents. For instance, a photo journalist was attacked by a police while taking a photo of the arrest of a civil servant inside Singha Durbar. Online Khabar bought Himalaya TV Himalaya Television ( ne, हिमालय टेलिभिजन), founded in 2010, is a nationwide private television company of Nepal. Himalaya TV has t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yama Buddha
Yama (Devanagari: यम) or Yamarāja (यमराज), is a deity of death, dharma, the south direction, and the underworld who predominantly features in Hindu and Buddhist religion, belonging to an early stratum of Rigvedic Hindu deities. In Sanskrit, his name can be interpreted to mean "twin". He is also an important deity worshipped by the Kalasha and formerly by the Nuristani peoples, indicating his prominence in ancient Hinduism. In Hinduism, Yama is the son of sun-god SuryaEffectuation of Shani Adoration pp. 10–15. and , the daughter of |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girish Khatiwada
Girish Khatiwada (born August 30, 1979) is a Nepalese rapper, radio, television personality, and vlogger. He is consistently cited as the first rapper of Nepal and was labeled the "Godfather of Nephop" by The Diplomat Magazine. Khatiwada started his career at the age of 15 with his first track "Meaningless Rap" in 1994 and became mainstream with his counterpart Pranil Timalsena with other tracks like “ Ma yesto chu”''Timi Jaha Pani Jaanchhau'', ''Malai Bhot Deu'', ''Hami Dherai Sana Chhu''. Today, besides his career in the Nepalese rap music scene, Khatiwada is also one of the most influential vloggers from Nepal. Life and career Girish Khatiwada was born on August 30, 1979, in Biratnagar, Nepal. In an interview with The Kathmandu Post, Girish said that he was introduced to hip hop music of the west in early 1990s when he was involved in break dancing in Dharan. His first introduction of hip-hop came from a cousin whose parents worked in the Nepali embassy in Washington. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
