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OUT NOWSINGLE · HINDI POP-PUNK / RAP15.09.2026 · LUCKNOW

Kaash

काश

Do you ever think you're fucking ugly? Do you think you're not enough? Or had more swag? This is the song for you if that makes you angry.

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Kaash

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▸ GENRE

hindi pop-punk / raphand-written

▸ RECORDED

Lucknowone room, one person

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01 / FREEsingle
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APR 2026

Zimmedari ज़िम्मेदारी

For people who know that freedom really buys happiness.

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Zimmedari

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02 / SADsingle
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MAR 2026

Kryptonite

For people mid-realisation about something much deeper.

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Kryptonite

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03 / HYPEhip-hop
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JAN 2026

SWAN DIVE : Tape Zero

For people drafting a resignation email right now.

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SWAN DIVE : Tape Zero

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04 / FREEHip-Hop
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SEPT 2025

sirius

For people trying to figure out what matters.

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sirius

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>_ player_01 · sage vapid

I'm the guy
from your feed

Maybe you've watched me question why I ever quit my cushy corporate job, or maybe you've watched me travel through India. Perhaps you saw me in my bedroom posting song after song every day with no love shown (don't worry I'm not offended), or perhaps it was while I was praising your hometown. This is what all of it was for, this is what I've been trying to sell you - music inspired by the story you saw unfold in real time.

Everything I write now is either literally true or something I wrote before I understood it was true. You made it this far — stay a while. It is quieter in here (sometimes there's screaming but that's just act 2, usually).

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PHOTO 01 The press shot my manager (where tf are you at dawg?) prefers.
PHOTO 02What I actually looked like one time when I got a haircut in Mumbai.
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HANDHELD

The whole arc

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    Bleeding

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  2. >_ where to listen

    Lazarus

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  3. >_ where to listen

    Kaliyuga

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    Flesh&Bones

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    sirius

    4 platforms · opens in a new tab

  6. >_ where to listen

    SWAN DIVE : Tape Zero

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  7. >_ where to listen

    Kryptonite

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  8. >_ where to listen

    Zimmedari

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  9. >_ where to listen

    Kaash

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  10. Oct 2026

    Nawabi Garage

    नवाबी गैराज

    UKG EP, loud, unapologetic, uniquely Lucknow.

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27 RECORDS · 65 TRACKS · 4h 06mSINCE 2019
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Songs nobody
has heard yet

Give me an email, I will give you a folder: unreleased demos and early looks at the next three albums, on untitled.stream. No schedule, no funnel, no "hey fam". Just a note when something is finished.

  • Unreleased demos, rough mixes, dead ends
  • Sneak peeks at what's coming next
  • First word before anything drops
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Notes

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LOG 0131.08.2026Lucknow · Kaash

Kaash came to because I missed 3 workouts in a row.

Lucknow, 4pm, March 2026, bedrotting for days just writing music posting reels, forgot to exercise, looked like a lump. Then I wrote this song and continued feeling like a lump.

6 months later I'm dropping this song becuase I once again find myself at rock bottom and while the reasons are different, the state of being is the same and its miserable and I've pledged to restart my life on my own terms again and I will win. Fuck beauty standards and fitness levels. I'm coming for it all.

Play Kaash
LOG 0221.08.2026Lucknow · Engineering

Mix on the headphones people actually own

I spent a year mixing for a room nobody listens in. Then I checked Kryptonite on the ₹1,200 earphones my cousin uses and the bass had simply left the building.

Now everything gets a pass on cheap earbuds, a phone speaker and the car. If it survives the phone speaker it survives anything.

The rest of the process
LOG 0312.08.2026Koh Tao · Rock Bottom

I spent my 27th birthday 18m below sea level diving with turtles Which sounds great, but I've been miserable.

For the 40 minutes I am out there every dive, there is no phone, no dialogue, nothing to narrate. First time in two years my head shut up, but I got a blister on my tow and my flipper kept hitting it, so fucking annoying.

Three of the Rock Bottom demos got written in the week after. Turns out you cannot write about drowning until you have been comfortable underwater.

Hear the demos
LOG 0428.05.2026Andalusia · Process

The next song should scare you a little

Rule for this project: you should never be able to guess the next track. Language, genre, tempo, whether there are drums at all — all of it is allowed to move.

That has cost me playlist placements and I have decided I do not care. Nawabi Garage has a UK garage track next to a tabla loop and it makes complete sense if you have been listening from the start.

Start from the start
LOG 0506.05.2026Lucknow · The numbers

I made five million people care and forgot to ask for anything

Pulled a year of analytics into one sheet. 2.2M views on my own stuff, close to 5M counting collaborations. 15,000 plays on the music.

The uncomfortable finding: the content that worked was me, face to camera, unfiltered. The honest fix is not more posts — it is telling the people already here that the songs exist.

The bit where I ask
LOG 0608.03.2026Jabalpur · Zimmedari

Zimmedari means responsibility, which is the joke

Wrote it in Jabalpur mid-road trip across India, having no responsibilities whatsoever for the first time in my adult life. I was just in Jabalpur with my white girlfriend teaching my young nephew all about Tung Tung Tung Sahur.

It is also the most literal song I have. Every line is a thing that happened in the eleven days before I recorded it.

Play Zimmedari
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