Kashmir’s new face of hip-hop

The New Indian Express

Ahmer Javed’s obsession to pursue rap as a career came about when he would sit down with his school mates and pen his own lyrics.

BENGALURU: Ahmer Javed’s obsession to pursue rap as a career came about when he would sit down with his school mates and pen his own lyrics. “A lot of rappers came out of Kashmir and tried to do something after artiste MC Kash but at some point, they felt that rap can’t be a career because the odds were against them. Different people have different struggles, I was just so stubborn that I couldn’t think of anything else,” says the 25-year-old Srinagar-born rapper, who has been termed as one of the most influential rappers to come out of the Valley since Roushan Illahi aka MC Kash in 2010. 

Read More here.