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October 19, 2026 — "Sammy talks to Yelhomie about hip hop from Manipur" · The Bridge by Sammy Chand

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  Speaker 1: South Asian music and culture can be.
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  Speaker 2: Found around the world.
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  Speaker 3: We track down the best and present it.
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  Speaker 2: Here for you on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 4: Hi everybody, this is Nayab Midha and you're listening to
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  Speaker 4: The Bridge with Sammy Chan.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, this is Bali, you're listening to The Bridge with
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  Speaker 5: Sammy Chan.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, this is Hanata Bhaumri.
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  Speaker 6: You're listening to me on The Bridge with Sammy Sun
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  Speaker 6: on Rutgers Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 7: What's up, everybody? Hope y'all had a wonderful weekend. And
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  Speaker 7: welcome to the big show. My name is Sammy Chan.
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  Speaker 7: And you have found an October 19th edition of The Bridge.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really excited about this week.
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  Speaker 7: We've got a lot in store for you and it
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  Speaker 7: begins with a big bang today. All the way from Manipur, everybody.
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  Speaker 7: From the northeast of India. We'll be joined by Yael Homi.
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  Speaker 7: One of the premier hip-hop artists coming out of India
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  Speaker 7: and to me, one of the realest.
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  Speaker 2: One of the most authentic artists.
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  Speaker 7: That India is putting out right now when it comes
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  Speaker 7: to actually putting a mirror to the state of his
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  Speaker 7: condition out there in Moneyport. And when I say authenticity
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  Speaker 7: is his backbone, Yell Homie is really telling the tale
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  Speaker 7: of some of the more serious things happening in his
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  Speaker 7: community from cops to the community to the violence to
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  Speaker 7: the different political things going on to the hip-hop scene
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  Speaker 7: over there. My goodness, so much that he covers in
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  Speaker 7: his music. Manipur is by no means a very stable area.
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  Speaker 2: A lot going on over there.
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  Speaker 7: And it takes somebody as brave as Yel Homi to
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  Speaker 7: put that forward. An exclusive interview with one of the
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  Speaker 7: big stars of Indian hip-hop coming up today.
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  Speaker 2: A big week ahead. Tomorrow we'll be joined by Niharika.
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  Speaker 7: And on Wednesday and Thursday, a very special two-part interview
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  Speaker 7: with Amal Malik. I'm excited about that too. But a
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  Speaker 7: big Monday show coming at you. Meera Sharma's in the house.
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  Speaker 7: And of course, the Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 2: All-Stars, Dr. Roy and Doita Dasgupta.
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  Speaker 7: But let's begin this show with what was the number
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  Speaker 7: one song from over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Talvinder, welcome to the bridge.
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  Speaker 8: Khulaan de tere khulaan se, tere aase paase, tikdaaye mainu kaun.
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  Speaker 8: Tikdaaye mainu kaun. Khulaan de tere khulaan se, tere aase paase,
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  Speaker 8: tikdaaye mainu kaun.
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  Speaker 3: I can see it.
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  Speaker 8: When you laugh, you don't look like you're laughing. You're
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  Speaker 8: trapped in the corners of your eyes. When you laugh,
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  Speaker 8: you don't look like you're laughing. You keep all the
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  Speaker 8: words of your heart in your heart. When you come
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  Speaker 8: to me, I laugh without you.
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  Speaker 9: I laugh alone.
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  Speaker 8: Kolaan je teri khola se, teri aase paase, dikhdaye maini
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  Speaker 8: Kismat vich likhya si jo, ho hi sana What happened
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  Speaker 8: to you? What did you get from me? I don't
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  Speaker 8: want you to hurt my feelings You could die in
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  Speaker 8: my know-how Khulaan je tere khulaase, tere aase paase, dikhdaaye
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  Speaker 8: mainu kaun Tere aase paase, tere aase paase.
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  Speaker 2: With a bang.
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  Speaker 7: Starting it all off with Telvinder, the song called A
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  Speaker 7: Se Pase. The number one song on the show right now.
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  Speaker 7: And the very first single from the brand new Painted
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  Speaker 7: Feelings album that's coming out in ten days.
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  Speaker 2: This next one we've got for you is Raga. See
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  Speaker 2: them off. It's called Kuch Mat Kar. Kuch mat kar.
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  Speaker 3: Kuch mat kar.
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  Speaker 2: Kuch mat kar.
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  Speaker 9: Kuch mat kar.
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  Speaker 1: I don't count myself as much, I don't get anything
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  Speaker 1: from my family I don't tell them anything, I just
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  Speaker 1: hide my own from myself My friends say that passion
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  Speaker 1: is more, it's better than having more money in the
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  Speaker 1: house Think about money, habits, and actions, my message is
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  Speaker 1: small and I'm small I'm a boy from Delhi, I've
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  Speaker 1: been talking for years, I'll give you a slap in
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  Speaker 1: the heart Yes, I've never wasted time, I've been broke
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  Speaker 1: for years I've got used to it, now I don't
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  Speaker 1: think about it when I spend And most of us
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  Speaker 1: know that I work for it You open that road,
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  Speaker 1: I do what I feel like, then I go, don't
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  Speaker 1: do anything.
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  Speaker 10: Dost bahut kum ya, dushman das rai, sar par char
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  Speaker 10: Dost bale kuch mat kar, just roll up the paper,
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  Speaker 10: kush par kar Mere waise bhi dost bahut kum ya,
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  Speaker 10: upar se dushman das rai, sar par char Kuch mat kar,
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  Speaker 10: kuch mat kar, kuch mat kar, kuch mat kar Dost
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  Speaker 10: bale kuch mat kar, just roll up the paper, kush
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  Speaker 10: par kar Mere waise bhi dost bahut kum ya, upar
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  Speaker 10: se dushman das.
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  Speaker 1: Rai, sar par char Kuch mat kar, kuch mat kar, kuch.
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  Speaker 4: Mat kar.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 11: Kavi kare kaviyo ze baar nahi Nati bani pariwara ravi
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  Speaker 11: ho mai family Saimate hain sabi laki nam namage saimati
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  Speaker 11: Kadar hai jasba to kiya, kadar hai bus pen ki
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  Speaker 11: Oh my god, khatta hua fancy Soon nahi satte smell,
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  Speaker 11: bachu can't see Bacho ki zindagi jo peeti hai gandhi
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  Speaker 11: Main mehendi hai, woh isle mehendi hoon main bhi Main
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  Speaker 11: isle hoon angry, main isle hoon rehta bohot sandy Main
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  Speaker 11: isle nahi leta hoon hanky, tu dikh mere aansu In
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  Speaker 11: bacho pe nahi hai, koi plan hai aur mahabab ka
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  Speaker 11: bachi hai Plan bhi tu nit pe hai, jhatu ya
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  Speaker 11: bache kamare hain Candy kujh bhajate, jamna mein avay In
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  Speaker 11: bacho ko kya doon, bacho ka future hi hai ni
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  Speaker 11: To kaise bacha looter.
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  Speaker 10: We'll meet again, we'll be together.
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  Speaker 12: Lok kamein, dost agad kamein, road too, round your body,
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  Speaker 12: tha parusa ko para, bhai nahi koi kamein, aur raga
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  Speaker 12: ko raga nahi, boltao mai ravi di, chair pe khochi,
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  Speaker 12: jab dharuti bachi, hum saath hai, sab suno se, bhule
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  Speaker 12: nahi kabhi, aaje pop sabana, mai kara nahi koch, aur
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  Speaker 12: ujadu ka chabi, I summon the money, I roll up
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  Speaker 12: the paper, aar es hai, mai top of the table,
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  Speaker 12: I talk of the town, I'll call up that label,
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  Speaker 12: I tell him nahi chahiye koi madad, I don't fuck around,
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  Speaker 12: I'm on my way up, ar saath agad day one hai,
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  Speaker 12: upar up table ke pound, Bookings on my straight up,
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  Speaker 12: I wanna crush on you But I don't care if.
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  Speaker 10: You call me a friend Just roll up the paper,
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  Speaker 10: do as you please I don't have a lot of
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  Speaker 10: friends anyway, but I have enemies on top of that
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  Speaker 10: Don't do anything Just roll up the paper, do as
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  Speaker 10: you please I don't have a lot of friends anyway,
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  Speaker 10: but I have enemies on top of that Don't do
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  Speaker 10: anything Don't do anything Don't.
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  Speaker 9: Do anything.
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  Speaker 7: Today's episode is all about Yael Homi. We'll be talking
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  Speaker 7: to the Indian hip-hop star today. Looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 7: It's going to be an interesting conversation. I have not
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  Speaker 7: asked him some of these questions before. And he is
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  Speaker 7: a dear friend, but we've never really talked about his
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  Speaker 7: work in this kind of a manner, so... Looking forward
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  Speaker 7: to talking to Yell Homie today. This is a song
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  Speaker 7: called Kante.
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  Speaker 2: It's just Monika.
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  Speaker 7: Hope you guys are enjoying yourselves here, wherever you may
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  Speaker 7: be around the world.
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  Speaker 6: I hope you guys are enjoying yourselves here, wherever you
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  Speaker 6: may be around the world.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, Sanuve tu na bolke.
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  Speaker 6: Dil jeeru sutea Leero leeru sutea.
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  Speaker 9: Banga kera ke degi avi vich Banga kera.
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  Speaker 6: Ke degi avi vich Dabge athoori de Aapta chal gaya
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  Speaker 6: naukriwe mul painde toodi de Banga kara ke de gaya
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  Speaker 6: vich dap gaya toodi de Aapta chal gaya naukriwe mul
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  Speaker 6: painde toodi de Hey, my love, how can I live
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  Speaker 6: without you? My love, you are my heart's desire.
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  Speaker 9: I love you from.
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  Speaker 2: The bottom of my heart.
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  Speaker 13: I love you from.
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  Speaker 8: The bottom of my heart.
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  Speaker 3: There is someone, there is someone.
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  Speaker 7: Jasmanak, one of the big pieces of news that came
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  Speaker 7: out this weekend was from Shah Rukh Khan, who announced
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  Speaker 7: a festival. It's called the UNIFYD. It's happening in Abu
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  Speaker 7: Dhabi in March 2027. He's already got Arijit Singh and
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  Speaker 7: Karanajula locked up as headliners.
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  Speaker 2: Big news there. Now let's bring in Dr. Roy.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, guys.
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  Speaker 4: This is Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Roy with today's Word on the Avenue.
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  Speaker 14: In film and TV news, Vidyut Jamwal is bringing the
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  Speaker 14: power of Indian martial arts and Shiva-inspired energy to the
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  Speaker 14: Hollywood premiere as Dhalsim in the upcoming Street Fighter movie.
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  Speaker 14: Promoted with the tagline, The Fire of Shiva Has Arrived,
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  Speaker 14: the action-packed film is set to hit the big screen
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  Speaker 14: this Friday, bringing the iconic video game character to life
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  Speaker 14: for a new generation of fans. In media news, Indian
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  Speaker 14: pilot Captain Smith Machar is being formally honored by the U.S.
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  Speaker 14: House of Representatives after his actions helped avert a suspected
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  Speaker 14: terrorist attack aboard Fly the Bay Flight 1073. A bipartisan
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  Speaker 14: resolution praises Macher for opening the cockpit door despite having
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  Speaker 14: serious injuries, allowing off-duty pilots, crew, and passengers to restrain
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  Speaker 14: the attacker and bring the aircraft safely back to Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 2: In event news, Kolkata has.
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  Speaker 14: Celebrated a spectacular cultural milestone as 3,000 Takis gathered at
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  Speaker 14: the iconic Eden Gardens to set a Guinness World Record,
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  Speaker 14: filling the stadium with the thunderous rhythms of Bengal's traditional
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  Speaker 14: Tak drums. The historic gathering celebrated the spirit of Durga
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  Speaker 14: Puja and showcased the power of India's living cultural heritage,
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  Speaker 14: bringing Bengal's beloved festive tradition to the global stage. That's
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  Speaker 14: it for today's Word on the Avenue. Until next time.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for that, Dr.
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  Speaker 15: Roy.
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  Speaker 2: Got a big interview for you guys today.
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  Speaker 7: We'll be joined by Yelhomi very shortly, one of the
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  Speaker 7: big hip-hop stars coming out of India.
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  Speaker 2: We wanted to play this song for you.
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  Speaker 7: It's called I Met Her Again by Man Panoop.
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  Speaker 16: And Tav. I met her in the whole night In
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  Speaker 16: the rain of that monsoon They wanted to say something
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  Speaker 16: I couldn't see it in my eyes They had brought
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  Speaker 16: a glass to measure my pain Seeing me laughing, they went.
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  Speaker 9: Back to where they were going.
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  Speaker 16: We are also our own princes, we don't get dreams
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  Speaker 16: We have forgotten everything, now these are our talks Ab
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  Speaker 16: varne lage zakham hai aur.
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  Speaker 3: Zinda ye kalam hai.
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  Speaker 16: Aur likhne wale hum hai haan ji haan Har koi
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  Speaker 16: ab sanam hai aur dard bhi thode kam hai ab
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  Speaker 16: rotay nahi hum hai.
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  Speaker 3: Haan ji haan.
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  Speaker 16: Ab man yeh mauj mein rehta hai, tujh dekhne ki
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  Speaker 16: ab aadat nahi Koi hame gham zada kar jaye, duniya
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  Speaker 16: mein aisi aafat nahi Yeh jhum ke kangan ka jal
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  Speaker 16: gajra rahe mere, kisi kaam ki nahi Main phool dekh
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  Speaker 16: ke hi khush hoon, kisi noor ki mujh ko chahat
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  Speaker 16: nahi Hum nahi, ab tere maat aaj hain, tanha hum
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  Speaker 16: nahi Zamaana aaye saath hai, woh leke aaye the main
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  Speaker 16: khaana karne hame madh hoshi haan, dekh ke haath mein
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  Speaker 16: shamaa mere woh lot gaye, phir jaani kahaan, woh leke
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  Speaker 16: aaye the pehmana naap ne mere darde haan, dekh ke mujh.
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  Speaker 3: Ko hasta hua woh lot gaye.
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  Speaker 16: Then where to go, we are also our own princes,
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  Speaker 16: we don't get dreams, we have forgotten everything, now these
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  Speaker 16: are our talks, now the wounds are starting to fill,
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  Speaker 16: and this pen is alive, and we are the ones
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  Speaker 16: who write, yes, yes, yes, everyone is now a beloved,
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  Speaker 16: and the pain is also a little less, now the.
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  Speaker 13: So Maan Pannu.
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  Speaker 7: Came up under the mentorship of Aditya Rikari. Interesting story.
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  Speaker 7: We'll break it down here later. And now, folks, let's
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  Speaker 7: bring into the show Meera Sharma, who brings you a
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  Speaker 7: weekly Mindful Sass Minute right here on the bridge.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, Meera?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Sammy.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, everyone.
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  Speaker 17: Meera Sharma here with your weekly dose of Mindful Sass,
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  Speaker 17: helping you stay self-assured, spirited, and strong. this week's reminder
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  Speaker 17: you don't need a big occasion to enjoy your life
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  Speaker 17: put on the good outfit for no reason get yourself
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  Speaker 17: your favorite matcha take the scenic route home put on
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  Speaker 17: your favorite song and have a little dance around your
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  Speaker 17: kitchen we can spend so much time waiting for the
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  Speaker 17: holiday the weekend the.
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  Speaker 18: Big achievement but there's so much joy hiding in the
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  Speaker 18: ordinary so romanticize your tuesday find something to be excited
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  Speaker 18: about today make your everyday life feel a little more
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  Speaker 18: special Because this is your life and you're allowed to
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  Speaker 18: enjoy it while you're living it.
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  Speaker 17: You've got this.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you so much for that, Mira. Always great advice
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  Speaker 7: for a Monday. And now, folks, let's transition this over
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  Speaker 7: to Daniel Johnson from the United Nations News Department as
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  Speaker 7: we pass him the microphone and tells us about the latest.
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  Speaker 19: This is UN News Today with me, Daniel Johnson. The
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  Speaker 19: headlines as more than one million species face extinction. UN
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  Speaker 19: Chief Antony Guterres leads the call for biodiversity protection. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 19: in Gaza, hundreds of children have been killed despite the
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  Speaker 19: ceasefire agreement, UNICEF warns, and we'll have the latest from Yemen,
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  Speaker 19: where the war has now displaced more than 233,000 people.
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  Speaker 19: The UN Secretary General issued an appeal on Friday for governments,
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  Speaker 19: business and communities to accelerate efforts to protect biodiversity for
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  Speaker 19: future generations. António Guterres was speaking in Yerevan, Armenia, ahead
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  Speaker 19: of the opening of the COP17 UN Biodiversity Conference.
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  Speaker 20: Every day, humankind saws another branch of the tree of life.
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  Speaker 20: Climate chaos, invasive species, overgrazing and overfishing, excessive fertilizers, pesticides,
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  Speaker 20: plastics and heavy metals. All these and more are driving
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  Speaker 20: the triple planetary crisis in of pollution, biodiversity loss and
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  Speaker 20: climate chaos.
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  Speaker 19: The UN chief warned that the world is edging ever
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  Speaker 19: closer towards becoming uninhabitable, but he also pointed to international
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  Speaker 19: biodiversity action agreed under the Canming-Pontreal framework four years ago.
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  Speaker 19: It has inspired action worldwide, Mr Guterres insisted, noting that
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  Speaker 19: since 2022, an additional 1.3 million square kilometres of land
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  Speaker 19: and 6 million square kilometres of ocean have received formal protection.
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  Speaker 19: But progress is uneven and far too slow. and countries
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  Speaker 19: risk falling well short of the goal of conserving 30%
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  Speaker 19: of the world's land and sea by 2030, the UN
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  Speaker 19: chief said. A little over a year since a ceasefire
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  Speaker 19: agreement was announced between Hamas fighters and Israel, more than
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  Speaker 19: 340 children have been reported killed and hundreds more injured,
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  Speaker 19: the UN Children's Fund UNICEF reported. For families mourning the
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  Speaker 19: loss of their children, those terrible statistics do not equate
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  Speaker 19: with a ceasefire, stressed spokesperson Ricardo Pires.
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  Speaker 21: In the last two weeks in Gaza, despite an agreed ceasefire,
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  Speaker 21: five boys and two girls have been reported killed and
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  Speaker 21: at least 33 children seriously injured in airstrikes, drone strikes
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  Speaker 21: and gunfire across the strip. Another two boys died of
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  Speaker 21: injuries sustained previously.
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  Speaker 19: The impact of the continuing violence on children is inescapable,
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  Speaker 19: Mr Pires said, citing the case of 16-year-old Nohant, who
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  Speaker 19: is the main carer for her baby sister, who survived
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  Speaker 19: after her mother was shot and died when she was
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  Speaker 19: eight months pregnant. Nohan's days are now spent tidying the home,
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  Speaker 19: cooking and playing with the baby, who is now one
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  Speaker 19: year old, while her three other siblings attend a UNICEF-supported
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  Speaker 19: learning centre. Asked about reports that private traders in Gaza
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  Speaker 19: had halted cooperation with the Israeli authorities on food deliveries
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  Speaker 19: for the occupied enclave, Mr Perez stressed that an uninterrupted
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  Speaker 19: flow of both humanitarian and commercial goods remained essential so
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  Speaker 19: that children can continue their recovery. To Yemen, where Taiz
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  Speaker 19: City is now completely isolated and its hospitals have just
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  Speaker 19: four days' fuel supplies left as fighting reaches urban areas.
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  Speaker 19: That's the latest from the UN World Health Organization, WHO,
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  Speaker 19: which reported that 12 hospitals in the southwestern city are
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  Speaker 19: also running out of oxygen and medicines. Stocks of surgical
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  Speaker 19: supplies have been completely exhausted. The agency stressed the urgent
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  Speaker 19: need for electricity and oxygen, especially for dialysis and intensive
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  Speaker 19: care patients, amid a growing number of cholera cases. Echoing
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  Speaker 19: those concerns, the UN International Organization for Migration, IOM, reported
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  Speaker 19: on Friday that more than 233,000 people have now been
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  Speaker 19: displaced since the conflict began in June. More than half
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  Speaker 19: that number is in Taiz alone, said IOM spokesperson Zoe Brennan.
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  Speaker 2: We are seeing all the protection concerns you can imagine
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  Speaker 2: with this huge number of families and women and children
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  Speaker 2: and vulnerable people on the move.
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  Speaker 19: UNICEF explained that the agency is still pushing for access
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  Speaker 19: to children in need in Taiz because of ongoing fighting
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  Speaker 19: and movement restrictions. This includes the closure of major roads
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  Speaker 19: linking the government to other areas, particularly Aden. The agency
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  Speaker 19: added that approximately 110,000 children are among the newly displaced
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  Speaker 19: since the beginning of September. with the deaths of 30
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  Speaker 19: youngsters confirmed since the start of the escalation. Daniel Johnson,
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  Speaker 19: UN News.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you very much, Daniel. And now let's get ready
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  Speaker 7: to bring in Yell Homie to the show. He's from Imphal, Manipur.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: His name literally means indigenous people, which is really interesting.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: And this song right here is called East Side Flow.
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: And on the other side of this song, we'll be
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: talking to Yell Homie himself.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Stand by.
• 23:30
  Speaker 22: We're the Eastside, oh, Eastside, oh Small life, but you
• 23:33
  Speaker 22: on the Eastside floor Eastside, no, bitch, I know Us,
• 23:37
  Speaker 22: little water, call the CISO Eastside, no, Eastside, no.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Two sticks, oh, there's a peace, I.
• 23:42
  Speaker 22: Know Tell these motherfuckers we're the Eastside, oh Tell these
• 23:45
  Speaker 22: motherfuckers we're.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: The Eastside, girl, they know.
• 23:48
  Speaker 22: E's where the home at E's where the bombs at
• 23:52
  Speaker 22: E's where the drugs hit Top young bloods with a
• 23:54
  Speaker 22: ass and a time map E's where the guns rise up.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: To the hills and the field as I hide out.
• 24:00
  Speaker 22: E's where the man sees us, reads us, beats us
• 24:02
  Speaker 22: to the side like, fuck it. E's where the bees
• 24:05
  Speaker 22: gon' run to the bee, make it pee from the side, bitch, cocky.
• 24:08
  Speaker 22: E's where the tribes go ape, you can break us,
• 24:09
  Speaker 22: the people, the land, and the culture, we root it.
• 24:12
  Speaker 22: E's are the home of the G's, like Chucky's, the Droopy's,
• 24:14
  Speaker 22: the M's, I lose, bitch, yeah, we done it. E's
• 24:16
  Speaker 22: where the kings and the queens have, fuck a beat, try,
• 24:18
  Speaker 22: we sting your ass, don't mistake myself.
• 24:28
  Speaker 22: .
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: .
• 24:50
  Speaker 22: Stuck in this bitch with me, alright Tell them where
• 24:52
  Speaker 22: the east side, oh, east side, oh Smoke lights, put
• 24:55
  Speaker 22: you on the east side floor East side, no, bitch,
• 24:58
  Speaker 22: I know Hustlin' while I call the CISO East side, no,
• 25:01
  Speaker 22: east side, no Two sticks up, there's a peace, I
• 25:04
  Speaker 22: know Tell these motherfuckers where the east side, oh Tell
• 25:06
  Speaker 22: these motherfuckers where the east side, carino Step on the throttle,
• 25:11
  Speaker 22: I'm swervin' away from you bums Follow my heart and
• 25:15
  Speaker 22: I carry my knives, they with me.
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: I'm on my way up.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I'm on my way.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Up.
• 25:26
  Speaker 22: Put all the hosts aside. Too many claiming their bona fides.
• 25:30
  Speaker 22: Spares on the splits, that's a homicide. How many rapping
• 25:33
  Speaker 22: to ease like God? That's not a waste. There's not
• 25:39
  Speaker 22: a way, son. This Nava's gon' play, don't. That shit
• 25:43
  Speaker 22: don't face us. Bully my way to the party where
• 25:47
  Speaker 22: young Navas don't feel embraced, son. Mama don't stay up.
• 25:53
  Speaker 22: When Navas there with me, it's hot in the city
• 25:55
  Speaker 22: and we be okay, ma. Young Nava don't play, huh.
• 25:59
  Speaker 22: Your shit don't hit, huh. Bring out the drums and
• 26:02
  Speaker 22: load up the choppers. Make them all run, nobody gon'
• 26:05
  Speaker 22: stop us. Bring out my people, that's rap in the dungeon.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: And all the.
• 26:10
  Speaker 22: Way from wonderful India, it's my homie, Yael Homie.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: How are you, brother? I'm doing great.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Amazing, brother. Thank you so much for having me.
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: It's certainly a pleasure and an honor to have you on,
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: my man. And for all that you're doing for the
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: hip-hop movement over there in India, I wanted to start
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: this show off by handing you a bouquet of flowers
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: for all the work that you've been doing, brother.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Hats off to you.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much, brother. Thank you so much. It
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: really means a lot.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: Manipur is finest, as I like to say. And most importantly, you...
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: Let's get into it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: To me.
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: You represent something very interesting because you are, as I
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: consider it, one of the very important voices coming out
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: of Indian hip hop because you are authentically made to
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: me to communicate our story from the subcontinent there. And
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: to me, that's a really important part of your story.
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: And I know how you've gone about life. But brother,
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: first of all, how did you put Moneyball on the
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: map when it comes to hip hop? And let's get
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: into this as to how does a young man from
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: out there in the northeast of India start to make
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: the waves that you have? Where did it all start?
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: Give us the background story. Give us the moments when
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: it all started clicking for you out there.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: I mean, when I was starting, I mean, I had
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: to make a really tough decision of whether to pursue
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: it in my music career or, you know, get a
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: regular job like most of the people do, right? So
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: it was kind of hard for me. But back then,
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, still now, the rap culture in the Northeast,
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: I got to say it's not really significant right now.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: And it's a really few of us that's trying to
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: make it happen in the Northeast and again, like beyond that.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: So it's challenging for now. And what we're doing is
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: we just got to keep pushing, you know, putting out
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: more tracks. Hope the audience picks it up. And that's that, bro.
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah, the audience is picking it up. And well, I
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: want to bring an interesting fact to the forefront here.
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: Your name, Yelhomi is a really interesting name because it
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: definitely has this kind of pun to it in terms
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: of it being just the name Homi, right? But then
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: you have this interesting thing because the name actually is
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: a word for the indigenous people in Manipur.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if people really know that.
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: But to me, just the name and how you've selected
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: it to represent you. to me, tells me so much
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: about how much you are putting that area of the
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: map on the hip-hop map. And as an individual, as
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: a big hip-hop fan, to me, that is so awesome,
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: the stories that you tell from that area. As an
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: outside listener, and as somebody, obviously, that can understand you
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: in English wherever I may be around the world, what
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: is the one thing that you feel that you're letting
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: people know about where you're from?
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: The place where I'm from, it's in the north, it's
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: called Manipur, and the name that I got myself for,
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: it it means indigenous people in my language. I mean,
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: like what you've always told me, it's only about representation first,
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: first love and everything, representation is the most, so what
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: I did was I tried to bring my people to
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: the picture, in the picture, right? And again, we had
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: a situation going on back in my place, It's been
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: like killings and killings, you know, war and everything. People
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: were displaced internally and everything. So it's kind of a
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: bad situation over here. But I had to make it work,
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: understand and picture what was happening in Manipur, right? So
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: that was my first motive that I had in mind
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: when I write songs, you know, release it and everything.
• 30:19
  Speaker 22: So.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, representation. That's the only thing that I have
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: in mind. And, you know, people have been like blind
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: and deaf with the situation in Manipur. I had to
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: put my people first.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: That's right. That's right. I love that.
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: You have, to me, that's what really, to me, really
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: stands out about you is that you're a voice of
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: this entire region and how you've gone about putting it
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: on the map, especially as Indian hip hop grows overall.
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: And you being such an important voice of that space there,
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: it's to me has been, quite a resounding story. Look,
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: I know that you put out, you've put out a
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: lot of music here through the time. And I know you're, you're,
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: you've been working on this brand new mixtape. Tell us
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: about the mixtape first of all, and tell us about this,
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: this project specifically.
• 31:06
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Uh, The tape is called Young Nabo. It means like
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: young brother in my language. You know, it's a story
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: about every youth of my place. The things they've gone through,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: the things they're seeing now and everything from generations. The
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: mistakes that our generation, the upper generations met, the old
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: generation met and everything. So it's a silent track album
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: where I even narrate my personal stories. tracks like Abui,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: the intro and some of the tracks, you know, fifth track,
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. The mixtape is dropped, by the way,
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: and it's available on streaming platforms right now, but the
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: thing about a mixtape is I really put my heart
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: into it. I mean, they're really, really personal tracks in
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: the in the tape like the brother name like brother
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: name which is the outro of the track I narrate
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: a story about a friend of mine who died in
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: a situation in Manipur and how he you know he
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: couldn't raise her he raised his daughter and everything so
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: it's a it's a really sad mixtape sonically but I'm
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: just trying to you know put it put it out
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: let the world listen to it and That's that, bro.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: And that's one track, the title track of the tape
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: is East Side Pancho, which I focus on the Northeast region.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: I cover discrimination in it, topics of discrimination and drug
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: uses and the state, the region and everything. So it's
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: a really political kind of thing. But yeah, I had
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: to put it out to make the world listen to it.
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: You know what I really love about you, Yohomi, is
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: that you put out music to me that matters to you.
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: It's very easy here, just in the first few minutes
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: that we've had a chance to spend with you. And
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: I know that in the past, you have also spoken
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: out about artists that kind of, to use your words,
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: degenerate the conscious human mind.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: And you've said that a lot of rappers do that.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: And I agree with you.
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: There's this level of people that are putting out our work,
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: putting out work rather, in a way where they're not
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: taking advantage of their platform. They're not taking advantage of
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: their opportunity to communicate. And to me, something that I
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: know about you is you take that very seriously. I mean,
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: these topics that you're covering are so serious, and they
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: reflect not only the political situation going on in your area.
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: Of course, you mentioned drugs. There's political stuff going on.
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: there's all kinds of different instability. And through it all,
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: of course, you continue to put out the art. But
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: to me, what I really love about you is your
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: connection to that. All right, tell us about, I know
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: you've said that in the past, that you don't really
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: like some of these artists out there that are kind
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: of bringing down the consciousness of the human mind.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Tell me about that.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, making tracks, first of all, in rap music, right?
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: I mean, We hear a lot about, you know, balling, this, that, cars, this, girls.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's natural. I mean, it's human nature, by
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: the way. But to be given this art, to put
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: it out and make people understand, you know, learn something
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: from it. And when you don't take that seriously, this
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: gift of art, when you don't really take it seriously
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: and start babbling anything on the record, I don't really
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: think it makes sense. I just want to spread knowledge.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: I don't mean that I know everything and I've known everything.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: I know better than him or her. But still, the
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: knowledge that I have that I gained from my experiences,
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: I want to put it on the record and make
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: people understand. learn through it so uh that's the only
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: thing that i have and i i don't really want
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: to like speak things and anything because it's in general
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: yeah but i'm not talking about anything personal so yeah
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: that's that but yeah we.
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: Got it yeah i agree with you and not by
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: no means are we calling out anybody or any kind
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: of individual in terms of the style of music but
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: i think that To your point, I think you respect
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: the platform a lot to where I know that you
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: have a very high standard as to what people should
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: do with that.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: And I respect that, my man. Yes, sir.
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: Once I heard you say that artists that come from
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: your area of India have to work. twice as hard
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: as some of the other artists, whether they're coming from
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: Delhi or they're coming from Mumbai. There's this level that
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: obviously to be heard from some of the smaller areas
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: around India, it becomes harder, right? Because you have to
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: kind of get over the commercial aspect and also the
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: access that they have to the culture where they may be.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: And so you're battling two things.
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: You're not only battling the population, but you're also battling
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: the actual movement that they've got going on within that population.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: And so from my.
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: Perspective to you is, why is it that you say
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: that it's harder for artists from your area to get
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: out there? Because I agree with you.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, first is the language barrier that we have.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, we have people in the Northeast that rap
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: in Hindi, which is a really... famous rap genre in
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: India right now, Desi Hip Hop. So we have people
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: from Arunachal and from parts of Guwahati. But then again,
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: the majority of the people rap in English and the Northeast.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: So when we try to break through the culture and everything,
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: get into the whole ecosystem of Desi Hip Hop, it
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: doesn't make any sense. So it's kind of hard for
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: us to get into there first because people quite don't
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: really understand what we're saying on the record.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: Because of the language, right? Yeah. And the other thing,
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: I don't want to really get political into it, but
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: there's this whole stigma of, you know, this ice stuff
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: because we're from the Northeast and everything. We've been sidelined
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: for a very, very, very long time.
• 37:35
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: And it's, you know, things are patching up. People are
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: coming together, working closely and everything. It's happening now, but
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: it was hard and it's still going to be hard,
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: but we got to make it through.
• 37:49
  Speaker 23: Right.
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: I appreciate you taking on that responsibility because I think
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: that we all know that our subcontinent there is so
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: diverse and it has so many different types of people.
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: And to me specifically, where you're from and what the
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: area of India that you represent and the stories and
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: the conditions that you, you know, portray and articulate in
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: your music, to me, is so important for everybody to hear.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: And I think that it's a unique story.
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: And I think that obviously the things that are going
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: on around you are unique to what's happening in Manipur
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: and areas around there, as opposed to where, like you said,
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: some of the guys are in Delhi or some of
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: the guys are in Mumbai or other cities, like even
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: for us out here, whether it's LA or New York,
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: those movements have very specific things going on. And so
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: sometimes it's harder for artists that are in the other
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: smaller towns to really cut through that. And so I
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: understand the burden that you take on. And to me,
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: I think it's a direct relationship with how you have
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: been so real with your work, because that to you,
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: it needs to be addressed right away.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: Talk to me about your interaction in terms of the
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: music that you've put out.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: With the international audience.
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: To me, you have this, as I mentioned to you,
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: you have this very interesting, very unique lane of having
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: a dialogue with the public in English. In India, obviously,
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: you have this huge following there, but have you had
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: any reaction from the outside community of India, and what
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: kind of reaction do you get?
• 39:17
  Speaker 15: I have some reaction from, well, actually, reaction videos, right?
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: What they do on YouTube. and everything, reacting to my
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: videos and stuff. I've had that experience. I've had that
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: feedback from them. And it came out good. I really
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: want to push it further, put my music out there
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: where people could actually pick up where it really makes sense.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: So that's the only motive that I have right now.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: And But every music that I'm making, gonna make from
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: now on, what I'm thinking is I'm starting to focus
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: on the international market because it makes sense for me
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: to be out there and not in this system that
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: is not really working for me.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 40:09
  Speaker 13: Honestly, so yeah.
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: Well, I think that's a great move for you, brother,
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: because I think the outside community you have an opportunity
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: to tell them a story about the conditions, not only
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: just there around you and the city and the area
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: that you're in.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, brother, for sure.
• 40:25
  Speaker 7: And I think that's, authentically speaking, I'm going to tell
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: you this too, the audience that is outside of India
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: that listens to hip hop is also turned off by
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: certain type of narratives, right? So a lot of these
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: guys that come in with this kind of fake persona
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: where you know it's not necessarily telling the authentic story
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: of where they're from.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: It kind of shows up. You can see it.
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: And sometimes I also don't like that representation because that's
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: not what our culture really is. It's a persona that
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: these rappers are kind of taking on. But when I
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: hear you, I see somebody that's authentic. I see somebody
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: that's really representing their town and putting that narrative out there.
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: And all for the folks that are not familiar with
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: your homies' work. You need to go check it out,
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: because as I said to you, it's drenched with the
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: realness of what is going on in his life. And
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: it has been, as he put it, sometimes it's not
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: always positive, and sometimes it's not always glowing. And how
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: is that for you? How is it telling those stories,
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: those very deep, sad stories? I know you've had all
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: kinds of different interactions with folks, even some of your
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: fans and people like that out there.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: But tell me about that.
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: The burden of this in terms of the realness of it.
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: I know you take it as a responsibility and you
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: take pride in that.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: But tell me about that.
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: How does that make you feel to get out there
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: with the story authentically that you're carrying?
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, almost every record that I make and that
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: I've released, it's all about, mostly about my state and
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: the things that we go through. So it's really, I mean,
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: the catalog, my whole catalog is kind of sad and,
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: you know, it don't really resonate with people who's trying
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: to have a good life and everything. But again, that's
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: the truth only. And sometimes I feel like I should
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: be dropping more songs that people could relate as a whole,
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: not just for my state. And that's the only challenge
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: that I have right now, you know, between making songs
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: for my people, you know, talking sad about it, you know,
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: narrating tragic stories, this, that, and... putting something out that
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: people could actually listen to and dance to it.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: So that's, that's the only thing that.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: I have right now.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: The only, uh, challenge that I have right now, but
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: hopefully we'll draw more tracks that people could resonate, like
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: the general public. So, uh, that, that's it for me. Yeah.
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: I think that your storytelling, um, is remarkable. It's one
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: of my favorite traits of what you do. And, the
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: topics that you cover. And I think anybody that listens
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: to a Yelhomi product is going to be in for that.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: They're signing up for that. And I think that's very,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: very evident, brother.
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: You've put out a handful of songs here that have
• 43:19
  Speaker 7: really done incredibly well.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: They all have.
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: Individual stories behind them. Two Sons of the East, Run
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: It Up, We Outside. They all have these very interesting
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: kind of stories. Each of them to me are unapologetically
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: honest and they are true stories of what they were.
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: Like Two Sons of the East, for example, you wrote
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: it during a huge flood and then you have like
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: Run It Up that like goes into the the whole
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: the young person in in infall that you are pretty
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: much picturing on that whole area there and and then
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: you go to we outside and it's it's about like
• 43:52
  Speaker 7: the the band that gets out there as far as
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: a war cry would be and and just the overall
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: scenario that you're dealing with there with the president of
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: the the temple board that you're speaking in there in
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: the ancient areas.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: And so When I look at these stories.
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: That you take, and the reason why I pulled out
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: the actual tale that you tell is they're dramatically different.
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: There's not one story that you're telling there. It's not
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: like the same thing over and over again. How do
• 44:16
  Speaker 7: you decide what makes it into a story on your song?
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Um, I study the feedback that I get from the
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: audience with every record that I drop. From there, if
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: people are reacting to it differently, say if I keep
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: dropping that song, one after another and people start, you know,
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: people start reacting, uh, probably to it. Like, I think
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: it's maybe time to make a change and drop something,
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: something like run it out, maybe make people, you know,
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: vibe to it for some brain and, and, you know,
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: give them the same set story again, because it's necessary
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: for me to represent my people and make people understand
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: what I'm, what we're going through into the state and
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: our state of money for, uh, And there's that, there's that,
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: there's that, man. I mean, um, for story writing, uh,
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: storytelling and everything, but none, none of them is fake.
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: Everything is true. Whatever I said in my record. So
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: it wasn't really hard for me to put these words together.
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: It was hard for me to feel the emotion while
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: I'm writing it, but, uh, yeah, putting the words together
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: and everything, it wasn't really hard for me. Uh, but
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: a challenge that I took back then was, um, you know,
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: writing songs and lyrics and everything, it wasn't really.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: You know, my thing. Yeah.
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: This is not my first language even. So, it was
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: hard at the, at the jump, but now it's, it's,
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: you know, it's coming through and everything is going great
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: for me, uh, working way.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: So, yeah. Beautiful brother.
• 45:54
  Speaker 7: I'm, I like to ask this question, um, to great
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: artists like yourselves who are, to me, the mean more
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: than to their community than just the music that they
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: make for themselves or for their own.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: Story.
• 46:09
  Speaker 7: Because without them even knowing it, sometimes they're inspiring a
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: whole generation of people.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: And I know that to be the case with your work.
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: You are affecting a lot of people because they look
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: at you with big wide eyes and they say, man,
• 46:23
  Speaker 7: y'all homie, that guy, he really inspires me. And so
• 46:28
  Speaker 7: my question to you, and my audience knows I like
• 46:30
  Speaker 7: to ask this question a lot, but I'm going to
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: throw it at you. What piece of advice would you
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: give a young kid right now that's growing up in
• 46:38
  Speaker 7: Manipur and is looking at you and says, man, yo, homie,
• 46:42
  Speaker 7: that's the guy right there. What advice would you give
• 46:44
  Speaker 7: him in terms of he's young, I don't know, 10, 12,
• 46:50
  Speaker 7: and he is looking at you like that's who I want.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: What advice would you give him? What would you say
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: to him?
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, to be in a music career or, you know,
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: looking up to me, like I want to be a
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: rapper or something.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: Um, yes.
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: From the music side, as a, you know what, maybe,
• 47:16
  Speaker 7: maybe into the person, because I think that would be
• 47:19
  Speaker 7: to me the most important thing.
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: But give me both as a rapper and as a person,
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: if you don't mind. Okay.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: As a, as a person, um, I mean, every, like
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: everybody in this, in this planet right now. I mean, it's,
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: you know, it's, it's our first time living this life.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: So every decision that you take, and if you, you know,
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: if the decision was bad, you know, if it didn't
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: make you, if it didn't land you in the right,
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: right destination or something, don't regret about it. Don't regret
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: it because it's the only, I mean, every decision, like
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: everything is new to you. Everything is new to us.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: So every decision that we make, don't regret it because
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: it's going to teach you that, you know, if it
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: was right, it was right. If it was wrong, it
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: was wrong. So everything is new. We're still learning. Everybody's
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: still learning. So, uh, I, I have to say, don't
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: make it, you know, all on yourself.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: That's amazing. That's amazing.
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: As a person. Yeah.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: What about the musician? What advice would you give the musician?
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: As a musician, I would say, to have, to have
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: a second option. So when things fall apart, you can
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: just pick it up, pick something up and, you know, uh,
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: get right into it. So I think that would say, because, um,
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, right now we're not really facing a good, uh,
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: atmosphere of music scene in Manipur and as a whole.
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: So I, I think I, I, I'd say, uh, better
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: have a second option because, nothing is certain.
• 49:00
  Speaker 24: So yeah yeah that's really good i don't want to
• 49:03
  Speaker 24: sound very sober advice because i it's interesting because there
• 49:07
  Speaker 24: are artists that answer that question differently they'll they'll say
• 49:11
  Speaker 24: it from the perspective of obviously very inspirational words like
• 49:15
  Speaker 24: oh make sure you do this or make sure you
• 49:16
  Speaker 24: do that and it's always great advice because gotta be
• 49:19
  Speaker 24: real but the advice you just gave is the realist
• 49:23
  Speaker 24: and and i think that if there's any way that
• 49:26
  Speaker 24: somebody could have answered that question the way you just
• 49:28
  Speaker 24: did it would have been you because i i think
• 49:30
  Speaker 24: that you do that in your music as well as
• 49:32
  Speaker 24: you just did in your advice And that is you
• 49:34
  Speaker 24: keep it real, brother.
• 49:35
  Speaker 7: And you keep the stories there in front of people
• 49:37
  Speaker 7: in a very authentic way. And I think how you
• 49:39
  Speaker 7: put it is, is yell home.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: You're right there.
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much, bro.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Brother. It's been really nice to talk to you on
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: this show today. And I think that a lot of people,
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: thank you so much for having me. Yeah, brother.
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: And I want you to know that you're flying the
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: flag for not only money board, but you're also flying
• 49:57
  Speaker 7: the flag for Indian hip hop. So know that and
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: keep doing what you're doing. And, turn your face towards
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: the rest of the world and tell them the story
• 50:04
  Speaker 7: because they're ready to hear it.
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much, bro.
• 50:08
  Speaker 7: Ladies and gentlemen, it's Yell Homie. And brother, if you
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: don't mind, why don't you introduce one of your songs
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: right now for you? Pick a song and I'm going
• 50:16
  Speaker 7: to play it for everybody.
• 50:18
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: I would say the greatest of young now.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: All right, let's do it. Let's play that song. We'll
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: play the greatest.
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: The greatest.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: That's right. Yelhomi, thank you so much.
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 50:31
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 50:32
  Speaker 7: Thank you so much for joining us today. Ladies and gentlemen,
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: the great Yelhomi, all the way from Manipur. This song
• 50:38
  Speaker 7: is called The Greatest.
• 50:46
  Speaker 9: I want to be right where you are. Some things
• 50:53
  Speaker 9: are never worth it.
• 50:56
  Speaker 25: I wanna be great like Basquiat, make Rihanna ask me
• 50:59
  Speaker 25: out Take her on a date, get her flak or feature,
• 51:01
  Speaker 25: then I'm out Paint a picture for my state, sell
• 51:04
  Speaker 25: it for a couple thou Snoop at my place, huh,
• 51:06
  Speaker 25: booze that we smokin' loud Roots in my wedding, play
• 51:09
  Speaker 25: the band when I'm walkin' down Salute the lift today,
• 51:11
  Speaker 25: cause Pakistan on every porch is wild I wanna be
• 51:14
  Speaker 25: the betters in this bitch with a crown sayin' know
• 51:16
  Speaker 25: me 100,000 hands on my shoulder for me Wanna be
• 51:20
  Speaker 25: like Pac I wanna be like Nas Putting Alice in
• 51:23
  Speaker 25: my rhymes I wanna be like Jigga Writing scriptures on
• 51:25
  Speaker 25: the block, man I wanna be like that With my
• 51:28
  Speaker 25: people on my side Screaming loud, yelling Northeast Some shit
• 51:34
  Speaker 25: I wouldn't die for Some shit I need don't get
• 51:36
  Speaker 25: that I'm just rapping here to die for Some place
• 51:38
  Speaker 25: I got my pride for Some place I never dreamed
• 51:40
  Speaker 25: to be the greatest To be the greatest And if
• 51:46
  Speaker 25: the crowd don't know my name Someday I'll make you.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Ride my wave When I'm the greatest.
• 52:03
  Speaker 25: To rumble banks full of cash, to the bank for deposit.
• 52:06
  Speaker 25: Rags stuck inside the lines, I gotta make the profit. Bands,
• 52:09
  Speaker 25: type of bands, type of shit, the bill of colleagues.
• 52:12
  Speaker 25: Bait on myself and get my hands on more night leads.
• 52:14
  Speaker 25: No tension up in my ear, nobody in the closet.
• 52:17
  Speaker 25: No mansion in all my name, bitch, don't forget the profit.
• 52:20
  Speaker 25: Language to me, you need. Gandhi to A & E.
• 52:23
  Speaker 25: Dance to the science of the city when I've got it, bitch,
• 52:25
  Speaker 25: run all of them. Money, more respect, I do need
• 52:28
  Speaker 25: all of them. News of the whips up in the
• 52:30
  Speaker 25: crypt till I lose count of them. Jewels in the bags, huh?
• 52:33
  Speaker 25: Can't deny for all of them Bother them, more power,
• 52:35
  Speaker 25: more respect You do need all of them It's great,
• 52:37
  Speaker 25: take it, take it, great, take it, take it Problems, huh?
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Great, take it, take it, great, take it, take it Karma, huh?
• 52:42
  Speaker 25: Greeting every brat Got them yelling like a bitch, huh?
• 52:45
  Speaker 25: Shit got them feeling like a pwn appendix Bitch, like
• 52:48
  Speaker 25: the greatest Like the greatest If the crowd don't know
• 52:54
  Speaker 25: my name Someday I'll make you ride my wave When
• 52:59
  Speaker 25: I'm the greatest.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: Shout out to yo homie. What a great conversation.
• 53:17
  Speaker 7: You see what I mean by the authenticity and how
• 53:20
  Speaker 7: real he is. I love that conversation. I've had a
• 53:23
  Speaker 7: chance to get to know him over the years and
• 53:26
  Speaker 7: I'm a big fan of his work, but more importantly
• 53:28
  Speaker 7: of who he is. So a big shout out to Yael, homie.
• 53:31
  Speaker 7: I'll be back with some closing remarks.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: Here's Doita.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: Hi, everyone.
• 53:35
  Speaker 5: This is Doita Dashgupta, your Ruckus Avenue radio music correspondent,
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: back with another artist spotlight. Let's spotlight Aditya Rikari, the
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: Delhi-born indie singer-songwriter whose emotionally raw music has made him
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: one of the most fastest-rising voices in Indian pop today.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Known for heartfelt.
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: Hits like Fastle, Samchona, Paro and the viral sensation Sahiba,
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: Aditya has built a massive fanbase through deeply personal lyrics
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: and minimalist melodies that connect strongly with Gen Z listeners.
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: 2026 is already shaping up to be a.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Huge year for him.
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: Earlier this year, Aditya collaborated with Kutle Khan and Rava
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: Tor on the Coke Studio Parra track A Achnabi. a
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: soulful fusion record that quickly gained major traction online and
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: across streaming platforms. He's also continued his streak of releases
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: with songs like Promise and Lajawab while expanding further into
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: Bollywood with tracks for upcoming films including Dacoit and Patipatni
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: or Voto. Fans and critics alike have praised his ability
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: to turn vulnerability into music that feels deeply personal yet
• 54:37
  Speaker 5: universally relatable with many calling him one of the defining
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: voices of India's indie wave.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: With billions of.
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: Streams, sold-out live shows, and a sound that feels intimate
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: yet cinematic all at once, Aditya Rikari continues proving that
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: indie music in India has never sounded more honest or
• 54:55
  Speaker 5: more powerful.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Well, that's all for me.
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: Stay tuned for more only on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the story goes like this.
• 55:02
  Speaker 7: Aditya Rikari was one of the big mentors of Man Panu,
• 55:06
  Speaker 7: who we played earlier. He was a judge on Manpanu's show.
• 55:12
  Speaker 7: And Manpanu's performance just blew him away. And after that,
• 55:15
  Speaker 7: Aditya Rekhari pointed him in the right direction.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: And there you go.
• 55:19
  Speaker 7: So shout out to Aditya Rekhari. This song is called Promise.
• 55:24
  Speaker 26: Ishq bhi yaar wala hai, humne kar ke dekha hai
• 55:29
  Speaker 26: Jiske sadke jeetay the, uspe mar ke dekha hai Deedar
• 55:34
  Speaker 26: se jin ke ye aankhe raushan hoti thi Unki tasveeron
• 55:39
  Speaker 26: ko yon aankhe var ke dekha hai Umar bhar ka
• 55:45
  Speaker 26: irada tha Mera ishq aasiyat se bhi zyada tha.
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: Thank you. What do you want, my friend?
• 56:20
  Speaker 13: What do you want, my friend? I'm hungry in this
• 56:25
  Speaker 13: heart What do you want, my friend? Even if I'm
• 56:29
  Speaker 13: lost What do you want, my friend? I'm hungry in
• 56:34
  Speaker 13: this heart What do you want, my friend?
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: Love is.
• 56:41
  Speaker 23: Made up of thoughts.
• 56:47
  Speaker 26: Yeh dil pe aaloon mein ghoonsa mile.
• 56:52
  Speaker 23: Yeh ishq khayaloon mein.
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: Bunta mile Yeh dil pe.
• 57:06
  Speaker 26: Aaloon mein ghoonsa mile This was our fate, but they didn't.
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: Get any support.
• 57:16
  Speaker 26: The old habit of this heart, which did a little
• 57:23
  Speaker 26: more harm. Who is not.
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: In the line of the Lord, today we meet him.
• 57:40
  Speaker 26: Aditya Rikari, the song is called Promise.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: And a big shout out to Yell Homie.
• 58:11
  Speaker 7: And let me tell you guys what you guys just heard.
• 58:16
  Speaker 7: A young man from Imphal, Manipur chose a name that
• 58:19
  Speaker 7: means indigenous people in his own language. Not a stage name,
• 58:24
  Speaker 7: a flag. And then he did exactly what his name says.
• 58:28
  Speaker 7: He put his people first. He told you about the
• 58:31
  Speaker 7: choice every artist from a place like that has to make.
• 58:34
  Speaker 7: The music or the regular job everybody else takes. He
• 58:39
  Speaker 7: chose music in a region where, in his words, the
• 58:42
  Speaker 7: rap culture isn't significant yet, and there are only a
• 58:46
  Speaker 7: few of them doing it. And he chose it during
• 58:49
  Speaker 7: the worst of it. Killings, families displaced, a state that
• 58:53
  Speaker 7: disappeared from the headlines while the world went blind and
• 58:57
  Speaker 7: deaf to it. So he wrote, Two Sons of the East,
• 59:01
  Speaker 7: during a flood. We outside, as a war cry. And now,
• 59:07
  Speaker 7: young Noabo, Young Brother as it translates. seven tracks, with
• 59:11
  Speaker 7: an outro about a friend who died and never got
• 59:14
  Speaker 7: to raise his daughter. He'll tell you it's a sad tape,
• 59:18
  Speaker 7: on purpose, because, in his own words, none of it
• 59:22
  Speaker 7: is fake. Everything on those records is true. And when
• 59:26
  Speaker 7: I asked him, what to tell a kid in Manipur
• 59:29
  Speaker 7: who looks up to him. He didn't sell a dream.
• 59:32
  Speaker 7: He said, have a second option, because nothing is certain.
• 59:37
  Speaker 7: And then he said this, it's our first time living
• 59:40
  Speaker 7: this life.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: Don't regret.
• 59:43
  Speaker 7: That's not a rapper looking for a hit. That's a
• 59:45
  Speaker 7: witness making sure somebody wrote it down. Yell homie, Manipur
• 59:50
  Speaker 7: is finest. And you heard it right here on the bridge.
• 59:54
  Speaker 7: Have a great day, everybody.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: See you tomorrow.