May 13, 2026 — “The State of the South Asian Hip Hop Space”

The Bridge by Sammy Chand · May 13, 2026 · 59m · transcript

May 13, 2026 — “The State of the South Asian Hip Hop Space”

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Episode 531

ON TODAY’S SHOW

Sammy Chand’s Wednesday show centers on a state-of-the-union conversation about South Asian hip-hop — and who really built the global movement. The thesis: Mumbai and Delhi’s scenes have mass, but the Punjabi machine kept the pipeline hot, and now the breakouts — Hanumankind at the front of the line — are going global entirely on their own terms. The diaspora conversation, Sammy argues, still under-tells the story. The hour is structured like a map. Mumbai…