Hip Hop and the Las Vegas Connection!

Right from Childhood I have been fascinated by Rap music. I would glue my eyes onto MTV RAP numbers then. Of late there has been a lot of Rap and Hip Hop numbers from Tamil and Hindi music directors. Amitab and Abhishek do a lot of Hip Hop songs these days. And our guyz deliver it on par if not better than the western counterparts, added with the desi touches to it.

So what is Hip Hop? It is a mix of Rapping (hey read carefully!), DJing (producing scratchy music), wearing your pants half way through your bums (showing your underwear is optional), dancing those crazy moves and of course "Yo Yo"ing.

Talking about Hip Hops …

I still remember the first live experience I had at Las Vegas. I dont drink and it was the first time I accompanied a couple of buddies to a happening Pub. We waited in line along with the American folks. The entrance was guarded by hefty guys. They would open up the chain and let us in as and when people come out of the pub. When we entered, I could see smoke and hear music. I kept bumping onto someone. Hey don’t think otherwise... it was because of poor visibility.

It was some kind of a weird feeling to see huge guys (like the ones seen on TV) flanked by babes on either side glancing at us and probably sending the message "what are these kids doing?” Huh! Probably those were words from my rather insecure inner self. There were a few others who gave a smile with raised eyebrows - probably saying "Hi!”. As we moved on we hit the dance floor, again flanked by a chain of body guards around the dance floor. The music was on and you guess what. Yes, Hip Hops.

We too were dancing to the tunes with bizarre moves. It was rather easy as you just need to follow the crowd and move along with them. When I was busy with that, my buddy was making other moves. He was slowly catching along with another babe along with the item number that he was following. Rather disappointingly, another dude whirled her away. When I was thinking - "wow! This guy is making great moves", he quickly started inviting another one. I could only think that all those powers were from the bottle of bear that he was holding. This girl was a Chinese. She moved out after some time along with her friends. When I was just telling my buddy that he had chased a girl out of the dance floor, he was surrounded by Chinese Jackie Chans (her boy friends probably). We dint understand what they were saying (as the music was damn loud). But I could see danger brewing as they were all angry. Before things could get nasty, I pulled along my friend and moved out of the dancing arena. Ho! We panicked, but nothing else happened. I thanked God – “Yo! God!!”. By the end of it my friend lost all the hip hop spirit that had climbed onto his head. It did not end there though. Buddies continued to dance with bear bottles in hand. One of them was dancing crazy with all Desi steps along side a huge black American woman. She enjoyed it for sure. We were laughing our lungs out. What was I doing? By then I had said enough is enough to myself and was taking snaps, so that I could share it along with friends back home. Later I managed to slowly drag them out of the crazy place well past mid night.

Back to Hip Hops… however crazy it might seem, they do really fire up the Josh-engine in you. These days I do dance to the Hip Hops rather instantaneously; and of course in indoors and with all the curtains down. Hip hop ... Yo Yo!!

Here are my favorite Hip Hop artists/groups:
50 Cents, The black eyed peas, Diddy or Puff Daddy, Eminem, Outkast, Snoop Dogg