How 50 Cent and police brutality helped form the rapper’s songs about living in a state under decades of revolt.
hmer Javed was troubled as he stepped on to a cramped little stage in New Delhi on 4 August 2019. For the past week, the 24-year-old rapper’s home state of Jammu and Kashmir had been under a security clampdown, with the Indian government deploying an additional 35,000 paramilitary troops to what was already one of the most militarised zones in the world.
Something big was going down. Social media was abuzz with rumours that the Narendra Modi-led BJP government was going to fulfill its poll promise of revoking Article 370 of the Indian constitution, which guaranteed special status to Jammu and Kashmir. That controversial law was the basis of the state’s uneasy accession to India in 1947. Its revocation was likely to lead to a backlash in the state.
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