The Srinagar artist worked with New Delhi-based producer Sez on the Beat for ‘Little Kid, Big Dreams’
On the sixth track of his debut album Little Kid, Big Dreams, Srinagar rapper Ahmer Javed has a track called “Roushan,” which features an interview excerpt of fellow Kashmiri hip-hop artist MC Kash aka Roushan Illahi. In the skit, Kash talks about studio raids and how his voice as an artist has been suppressed.
Then, the first words from Ahmer arrive in Kashmiri on “Kasheer”: “Crackdow’nas manz zaamit, curfew manz maraan/ Haqoomat yi haptan hunz, nindrah karaan (We’re born in crackdowns, we die in curfews/Governed by bears, who sleep on us every day).” The 24-year-old is rightfully proud of this couplet and counts it among his most favorite on Little Kid, Big Dreams, which released on July 5th via Azadi Records. For Ahmer to say that he’s tried not to be “simple and generic” on his debut album is quite an understatement.
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