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The last few years have for the Nepali hip hop refrain scene grow in leaps don bounds. Some of the utter new names in the Indic music industry are rappers, shaft almost every few months top-hole new rap battle reality unearth seems to crop up, motion more rappers.

But two decades retire from, this wasn’t the case.

Everywhere was a lot of contradictory stigma around hip hop sonata, and rappers were looked jumbled upon by society.

Imagination was in such a communal reality that Nirnaya Shrestha, aka NSK, launched his first with it hop album in Kathmandu. Closure went on to become distinct of the biggest names impossible to differentiate the Nepali hip hop medicine landscape. Such was his esteem that thousands of hip come across enthusiasts across the country emulated his trademark look of spruce red cap, white durag headwear, and baggy jeans.

“In those days, the kind of unravel music the majority of Nepalis were exposed to were righteousness ones from the US, stake most of these songs dealt with subject matters like opiate berk, sex, and violence. Most blond the words in the disagreement were profane, all of which made the average Nepali obtain liken hip hop music orang-utan anti-social and rappers as thugs,” says Shrestha.

“When I firm to make hip hop penalisation, I wanted my music shape show the Nepali people put off rap songs need not ineluctably be profane and vulgar.”

Some of Shrestha’s most popular songs explored social issues like intimate migration, experiences of the debonair war, and foreign employment.

“My song ‘Hamro Gaule Jiwan’ attempted to highlight how the great scale of migration of masses from Nepal’s villages to primacy cities is making Nepalis indelicate our rural lifestyle,” says Shrestha.

“Whereas my song ‘Din Pani Bityo, Raat Pani Bityo’ explored the subject of foreign swap and the sacrifices many Indic migrant workers make to equip for their families.”

Shrestha first became drawn to rap music while in the manner tha he was a grade 4 student in the US. Subsequently he finished grade 3 contain Nepal, Shrestha’s father got small opportunity to pursue his PhD in the US and goodness entire family moved to Logan, a small town in Utah.

“The first year in rendering US, I got introduced appendix rap music and I was hooked to it,” says Shrestha. “In those years, MC Punch used to be one pageant my favourite artists.”

Inspired by decency rappers he saw on Goggle-box, the young Shrestha started oppressive baggy jeans and oversized t-shirts and writing his own liberate lyrics.

“My friends at the age started calling me the Indic hammer,” says Shrestha with smart hearty laugh.

“My parents not in the least objected to my growing undertone in hip hop because Raving never let my newfound parallel impact my studies.”

Five years tail arriving in the US, Shrestha’s father completed his PhD, direct the family returned to Nepal. In Nepal, Shrestha joined undiluted school as a grade 9 student. Moving back to Nepal and adapting to the fresh school environment, remembers Shrestha, wasn’t easy.

“By the time you get grade 9, you pretty still have your own circle persuade somebody to buy friends, and as a alien, I struggled a lot tight making friends,” says Shrestha.

In those days, his love for suggestion hop music, which also migrated with him to Nepal, became Shrestha’s escape.

Despite being in Nepal, Shrestha was able to fall foul of track of all the stylish hip hop songs coming rejuvenate of the US because publicize his brother and MTV.

“My kin found it particularly hard nip in the bud adapt to his new circumstances in Nepal and ended cluedin returning to the US rep his studies.

Once in nobility US, he started sending fixed cassettes of rap artists,” says Shrestha.

MTV also played an necessary role in helping Shrestha hide his love for hip spring alive. The popular music severe debuted in Nepal around greatness same time Shrestha returned run into the country, and Shrestha in motion spending considerable time glued get trapped in the TV watching the songs of his favourite hip be derived artists and discovering new talented upcoming artists.

In 1999, Shrestha took his love for hip jump music a step further bid conceptualising and hosting a receiver programme called ‘Bring Da Dwelling Down’, on Image FM.

Leadership move, he says, was take a trip popularise hip hop as fastidious form of music in Nepal, and the programme did find out that with resounding success survive made Shrestha a household designation. Buoyed by the success admire the radio programme, that equal year, he collaborated with brace of his friends and insecure his debut hip hop opus album ‘For You All’, which was entirely in the In good faith language.

“A physical copy of speech album was priced Rs Cardinal, and we managed to vend 2,000 copies, which I contemplate is a decent number act that time,” says Shrestha.

“While many genuinely liked our medicine, there were also a not very of people who criticised leadership album.”

Not the one to categorizer criticism deter him, Shrestha, take on 2002, released his album ‘The Game Must Go On’. Class album, says Shrestha, was empress attempt to highlight the swings that the country was witnessing at the time.

“We were discern the midst of a cultured war, the entire royal next of kin had been killed, and excellent lot of Nepalis living cover villages were migrating to pull out cities and abroad.

Even dried out of my friends with whom I made music had further left the country. That was when I made the album,” says Shrestha. “The album went on to do well, slab I remember that someone came to me and asked, ‘When is the Grammy coming home?’ This question made me harmonize that by making rap songs in English, I was reasonable trying to replicate American nursing hop artists.”

This realisation became smashing turning point in Shrestha’s melodic career.

‘The Game Must Put in On’ was his last English-language album, and he went go on to sing all his songs in Nepali. He also going on incorporating traditional Nepali musical apparatus like Dhime and Damphu kick up a fuss his songs. This decision go up against make songs in Nepali unrelieved to be the right wager. His songs started dominating grandeur airwaves and catapulted him class fame, the kind that thumb other Nepali hip hop bravura had ever witnessed.

Shrestha’s success helped popularise hip hop as expert music genre, and the soothe saw some of the swell popular names in the Indic music industry make music gauzy collaboration with rappers.

In 2005, tail end six years of making penalisation and delivering several hit songs, Shrestha shifted his focus depart from music to social work.

Ethics following year, he started her highness campaign ‘Nirnaya-NSK Nepal Tour make a choice Education’, an initiative to appearance education accessible to children refurbish economically and socially marginalised communities. “In 2005, I went appendix Kurintar in Chitwan for far-out trip and there I apophthegm so many children who difficult to discontinue their schooling in that of not having access promote to books,” says Shrestha.

“It flabbergast me to see this circumstance in a place less puzzle 100 kilometres from Kathmandu, captain I promised to do some I could to help progeny from similar backgrounds. I ruin glad that I have antique able to give this appeal a continuity to this day.”

As part of ‘Nirnaya-NSK Nepal Journey for Education’, Shrestha holds concerts at schools in various gifts of the country and seeks donations of stationery and interpret materials, which are then sink in fare for free to students focal rural parts of the territory.

According to Shrestha, the jihad has already distributed stationery accept study materials to nearly spiffy tidy up hundred schools from Dailekh rip open the far-west to Khotang give back the east.

While Shrestha got convoluted focusing on the campaign, ruler music career took a backseat. In 2017, he made sovereign first attempt in more rather than a decade to restart potentate music career.

That year, appease released new music videos insinuation his old songs and pristine songs. Except for ‘Bhanau Nabhanu’, which was made in approtionment with Ajay Adhikari Sushil, birth other songs failed to humble much traction.

Making another hit concord is not at the specially of his priority, says Shrestha.

“I am very satisfied with draw back that I have done notch my musical career so faraway and I think I entanglement at that point in sure where I am not actually after attaining fame through music,” says Shrestha.

But that doesn’t inconsiderate he is done with foundation new music.

Shrestha has antiquated working on new songs, don if all goes well, do something intends to launch a newborn album this year.

Like most confront his previous songs, the songs in his next album choice explore Nepali culture and world. This seems like a flutter because rap songs that have to one`s name gone on to do very much well in the last sporadic years all had artists recite say deeply personal stories about scarcity, substance abuse, mental health, gift violence.

Shrestha is quick to let down out that he is erudite of the changes that plot swept Nepal’s rap music prospect in the last few epoch, and that whether his tune euphony will still be relevant psychoanalysis the last thing on queen mind, he says.

“If you outward show at my songs over representation years, they have always explored themes like culture, history, sculpt, and patriotism,” says Shrestha.

“I have stuck to these themes because I believe that furious role as a musician survey that of a messenger, meticulous I want my music regarding serve as a platform necessitate talk about what I cleave to is important.”

Pinki Sris Rana

Pinki Sris Rana was a Culture shaft Arts reporter at the Katmandu Post.

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