- Title: India’s ‘Wild Wild Women’ jam to the tunes of change
- Date: 8th March 2024
- Summary: MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA (MARCH 07, 2024) (ANI-No use India) MEMBERS OF INDIA'S FIRST ALL-FEMALE HIP HOP COLLECTIVE, 'WILD WILD WOMEN' REHEARSING COLLECTIVE MEMBER PERFORMING RAP MUSIC WILD WILD WOMEN COLLECTIVE MEMBERS RAPPING COLLECTIVE MEMBERS SITTING (SOUNDBITE) (English) WILD WILD WOMEN HIP HOP COLLECTIVE CO-FOUNDER, HASHTAG PREETI, SAYING: "I rap to express myself, to express my emotions and I think as a woman, only a woman could relate to whatever I am speaking…so, you know, I was not seeing any woman audience around me in this place where so many rappers used to come. So one day, there was me and then there was Krantinaari (co-founder) who was also here…she was painting a wall here and then we both were there for the jam session in the circle. And then we saw like there were no women, there are no female rappers and since like after couple of weekends me and Krantinaari decided that we should have a(an) all-female hip hop cypher in this place." VARIOUS OF COLLECTIVE MEMBERS SITTING COLLECTIVE MEMBERS JAMMING VARIOUS OF COLLECTIVE MEMBERS SITTING COLLECTIVE MEMBER FIDDLING WITH BRACELET COLLECTIVE MEMBERS DESCENDING STAIRS (SOUNDBITE) (English and Hindi) WILD WILD WOMEN COLLLECTIVE CO-FOUNDER, KRANTINAARI, SAYING: "Wherever we go there's a lack of safety, there's a lack of feeling that yes I can be wherever I want to be…the same situation is when we go to gigs and the hip hop scene, so to remove this thing from the scene, what is the solution, it's to be there. If a large number of women just be there, only then this (patriarchal gender norm) can end." VARIOUS OF COLLECTIVE MEMBERS MEETING
- Embargoed: 22nd March 2024 08:25
- Keywords: Andheri India Maharashtra Marol Art Village Mumbai Wild Wild Women Womens Day art artists celebration collective crew dance dancers equality gender graffiti hip hop jam music norms rap rebel representation safety social issues society women
- Location: MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA
- City: MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA
- Country: India
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA001K0BDIZ3
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Amid the loud noises of fast-paced suburbs of Mumbai, eight women are jamming to their own tunes, leading a musical revolution in the country.
'Wild Wild Women,' named with the intention to bring out the wild side in every woman, is a collective revolutionizing the hip hop scene by claiming it from a male-dominated audience and creating a space for women in hip hop genre to express themselves freely.
"I rap to express myself, to express my emotions and I think as a woman, only a woman could relate to whatever I am speaking," said Hashtag Preeti, one of the co-founders of the collective and added that the lack of women participants
encouraged her to set up 'Wild Wild Women'.
"If a large number of women just be there, only then this can end," said Krantinaari, the other co-founder, on ending patriarchal norms and re-claiming art for women, especially in the hip-hop category.
Cypher-turned-collective, 'Wild Wild Women', is the result of passion for hip hop and the resolve to empower women and ensure gender representation within the genre. Most of these women have day-jobs as designers, consultants but they turn rappers by night.
Hip hop in India is a largely male-dominated genre of music and in a country where women safety is under constant scrutiny, collectives like 'Wild Wild Women' are shattering the glass ceiling and paving the way to a society that is more inclusive, one jamming session at a time. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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