Richard and Irfan combined forces to link up with the exciting Twenty2k hailing from Toronto, Canada along with the mighty Tigerstyle in Birmingham. They go in depth about the industry and them making their name as artists. As per standard the desitunes4u duo steer clear of the norm with the questions but they are just as sharp in response making this one a must read interview!!

The comments of each of them have been colour co-ordinated to help you distinguish who is saying what. The following key can be used as a guide to help you with this as well.

Richard: Can you please explain who you are individually?

Blitzkrieg: Blitzkrieg Asian Empire records 22k entertainment also known as the El Capitane of the ship (laughs).

Da Coz: Da Coz Hustlebeats 22k, Toronto to UK, holdin down as the producer!

MC JD: MC JD junglist MC, jungle don on the microphone everyday 22k, and junglist MC!

Irfan: Being desi artists in Canada and not doing hardcore bhangra, there really isn't much of a scene for you to represent, do you feel this holds you back as artists?

Blitzkrieg: I think so in terms of the desi scene, but I mean I think the one thing that's helped us most is that we've never referred to ourselves other to when we're on desi radio or what not, we've never referred to ourselves as desi artists; we're artists first. Desi isn't something we're trying to be, its just something I'm born with and I'm proud of that but I don't have to make it seem like I'm like the number one desi MC. Cuz soon as people see me, and hear my rhymes they know what I am about. But I mean that's one thing that's contributed to our success that we cater to everybody. JD he's one of the top jungle MCs in Toronto, he performs a jungle crowd, which is a lot of white, oriental, and mixed crowds. And we performed in front of majority black audience, we're gonna do a Latin fest when we get back. So doing the desi thing for us is rare, that's why we like coming out to UK and connecting with our brothers from another mother Tigerstyle. I think the industry is kind of in a stagnant position right now. Revolutionary people need to come out and redo the whole industry. There are old people in charge of the industry right now, and hopefully newer people with broader visions need to take over and start controlling the jams and the radio.

Pops: It's not even that though. It's like bhangra labels and older people control the industry. Even A&R's for labels are not in touch with the street. Even the people that are running these labels none of them have any creative ideas all they know is that, I sign an artist and get their product which is a commodity to me, I sell it and I make money from it, I don't care if an artist makes money or if he gets gigs, or if this music is even relevant to the street, I just wanna sell their product and make money, that's all the bhangra business is.

Raj: Same with a lot of the artists, there is very few artists that are coming with anything that's a creative, original concept that is their own. These guys (Twenty2K) have something unique to bring to the table, and we respect that!

Da Coz: Even the names are not even original some of them I find in UK. They'll take some of the hip-hop names and rearrange em (Everyone laughs).

Pops: You look at the mainstream industry, they have bigger artists, so they probably have a much larger rate or problem when it comes to the piracy issue, and their sales have been hit in a much bigger way. Mainstream labels have found creative ways to tackle that problem whereas our labels sit there and cry about it, they don't think of a creative way to tackle that problem.

Twenty2k in Leicester

MC JD: Exactly same thing he was saying, I think they are sticking to a formula. They see a formula that works, it's the whole if it ain't broke don't fix it type thing; they're not risk takers. As desi artists from Toronto, we are risk takers with our diversity and our music. We got hip-hop MCs, people doin open Mic's, Basixx doin production on his tip; we got Da coz doin production on his tip. I'm doin my drum and bass thing. I'm a whole separate entity from these guys but we've come together to network and do what we have to do. Yea we're Indian, we're Punjabi or we're desi, or we're Hindu, we're Muslim.

Whatever we are, we're brown. We're a visible minority, so what we have to do is show the mainstream, yea we're a visible minority but the diversity in the world, we need to globalize the music scene. Like bring groups such as Tigerstyle to the forefront and let the people know exactly what our music stands for you know what I mean?

Blitzkrieg: I think the labels, the A and R's and the people who run the labels, if you actually sit down and talk to them and a lot of the artists, they're insulting the desi fan's intelligent. I've had artists, I am not gonna say any names, and promoters come up and tell me, "Blitz, you need to dumb down your rhymes a bit for the UK scene." And I personally think that's an insult to the UK fans. Cuz hey UK desi's ain't f*^kin stupid man. I'm not gonna f#*kin spit a A-B-C rhyme because their not dumb, actually I talked to people in the street, when we were in Leicester I was talking to people in the street and was like, "yo tell me what you really think about the UK MCs?" I didn't hear anyone say they like em. Like in terms of that A-B-C type rhymes. Like people like that political, more lyrical stuff. People wanna hear that, but the old men in charge of the labels are like nah bro the desi people ain't ready for that.

Pops: I think what people are missing more than anything else is an artist that actually gives them a voice. That actually gets on stage and tells their story ya get me? It's like black people brought that in rappers back in the day that have told their story, like what their community has been facing, tackling issues and whatever. None of our artists do that, they just go out there sing about kuriya and clubs and getting sharaabi. They don't talk about issues, and that's what's missing. Chamkila, Yamla, Manak and Shinda back in the day sang about issues you get me? That's what gives their music potency. That's what missing from desi music.

Richard: You use the slogan hip-hop with an Indian twist to describe your sound. Many artists are jumping on this bandwagon and creating this style of music. Do you think it might be the in thing?

Blitzkrieg: I think it's not even the in thing anymore. I feel like the desi scene totally missed the ship on that one (everyone laughs). Cuz I mean I'll tell you straight up, cuz if you walk around to the labels, like for example New York is not even a 20 min flight from Toronto, and is just a few hours drive from NY and New York is the home of hip hop. You go New York, Toronto or Chicago, any of the main hip hop cities, and you're like hey yea the Indian thing, they'll be like, "dude that was like two years ago." The desi scene sleeps on stuff. Now slowly slowly I guess the labels are trying to look for a desi MC to represent. But honestly dude that ship has sailed. Like that shit was big when Jay-Z came out with "Big pimpin", when Nas came out with "Oochie wally", when Missy Elliot came out with "Get your Freak On." That was like the prime time of desi beats comin' out. PMC hit right around that time.

MC JD: That was a sample thing though. As artists, personally me as an outsider looking in at 22k, these guys are young cats coming up, which I see what they're doing, Hip Hop in North America is still considered primarily a Black art form. I totally see that. But yo honest to God if I went and picked up and album and saw on it "Indians Strike Back 2" hip-hop, and I listened to Blitz's metaphors, I would totally be like, wow this guy is a lyricist, straight hands down if you put him against any black MC and didn't tell anyone what colour their skin was, and just let him spit, and not look at him and not judge him on who he is as a person or what he looks like but listen to the quality of hip hop that's coming out of him, he is a hip hop artist. People do not understand that right now. Yea maybe there is people trying to mimic us, but we are not gonna stop what we're doing.

Blitzkrieg: But that ties back to the first question you were askin us. We have never labeled ourselves as desi hip-hop artists. We've always labeled ourselves as artists who happen to be desi.

Pops: I heard these guys (Twenty2K) when they were doing the PMC 60 mins of Desi shows that was even before Missy started goin on the Asian tip.

Blitzkrieg: That was 99. Pops: The way music is things come back around. A few years ago before the bhangra thing came out. It was the Asian underground with Talvin Singh and that sort of thing. Asian fashion came through to a certain extent. And then when Panjabi MC came out, and between those times, there were a lot of hip-hop artists using desi samples. Sooner or later the artists and movement behind the scenes bring their sound back around, its only natural to reinvent.

Raj & Pops (Tigerstyle)

Blitzkrieg: I think alotta new artists have been burning themselves out, because a lot of artists have just been concentrating on the desi scene. Like people might say "oh Blitz Asian Empire/22k is not as big as everyone else" but if you think about it, I think we have accomplished something good because we have an underground buzz in every market. Yea we might not be really big in the desi market, but we have a good underground buzz in the desi market, a good underground buzz in the New York hip hop market, a good underground buzz in the Toronto hip hop market, a good underground buzz in the drum and bass jungle market. Like we are covering everything at the underground level, at the end of the day, people will be like "yea that name sounds familiar." You could go to any city, and they'll be like yea that name sounds familiar. Everything starts grassroots. But too many cats are burning themselves out. Alotta desi hip-hop acts are coming out and all they're focusing on is desi gigs, desi website interviews. I mean that's just grassroots marketing.

MC JD: You cannot put $5000 into a demo and think you are going to go mainstream, when you're not real to the music. You can't just put out a product and say, "I'm gonna be the next Tupac Shakur of hip hop in the Indian market." You could put all the money you want towards it, but you're gonna burn out. We have lasting power; these guys have been on the grind. My man is hustling CD's on the block for 2 pounds.

Blitzkrieg: We really go hours without eating just to sell CD's. Like we'll deprive ourselves, you can ask anyone that knows us whether you like our music or not, one thing you can knock my music, but you cannot knock 22k's passion and their hustle. We come out here on our own money. You got people who record their little demos and think they're gonna become stars overnight. One piece of advice I can give to cats out there, it takes hours upon hours, and hundreds of dollars of studio time just to find who you are on the mic, how to spit, how to carry yourself. Like I just started sounding like this now, if you listen to my earlier shit, I sounded like everybody else; it takes years.

Irfan: Many desi artists are getting some sort of mainstream attention by collaborating with big named non-desi artists, many more often than not this is a guest vocal appearance on the mainstream artist album, or b-side remix and single. Do you feel the mainstream are using the desi artists and their talents rather than pushing the desi artist in their own right properly, or should we be just grateful of such collaborations?

Blitzkrieg: What type of collaborations are you talking about?

Irfan: Well for example Tigerstyle mixing a B-side track for someone or PMC.

Raj: On the whole there hasn't really been a true mainstream collaboration.

Blitzkrieg: Actually Raje Shwari can be noted as one, she was actually in the studio with Timberland.

Richard: What about Rishi Rich and Craig David?

Blitzkrieg: The Rishi and Craig David does count.

Twenty2k mic check

Pops: What we've seen with our interaction with the labels, is that a lot of labels although they have interest in desi artists. They're too unsure of how to market it. The biggest thing is that apne, and the desi distribution not having bar codes or any of the sales actually being legit is stupid, that can be useful towards chart positions or a legit record of sales or whatever. At the end of the day, they don't know how to actually get those sales in. It's such a weird structure, from a mainstream perspective it's a mess. Raj: No Asian act has been trying to press the mainstream.

MC JD: A lot of them are one hit wonders. Raje Shwari and Timbaland, you're not gonna see a full album with them or anything. You're gonna see one track that smashes the dancehall, but how many are you gonna back it up and invest in it. There is no market for it unless you create the market. That's back to the first question because, the older people are sticking to the same formula, no one is willing to put in their money or maybe I am wrong and somebody will put their money, and try this market, but globally is it going to work?

Pops: To push it globally it takes a lot of money and no label is gonna invest money in that act, unless they fully know how to market and target their core audience or their core market. If the core market doesn't have any structure to it then it's hard to get the material out.

Raj: In apnai stores, they're doin jack shit! Half the shops are fuc*** clothes shops.

Blitzkrieg: In Canada they're selling your music right next to like roti. You'll go in have like 5 samosai and next to the samosai you got like a Rishi Rich CD.

Raj: And the worst thing is like its not just like that here, it's like that everywhere worldwide in every country, it's a joke really.

MC JD: You go to Toronto it's the same thing man, a CD is like 10 dollars, but people will still be like "please paji, 2 dollars" (everyone laughs).

Pops: What I don't understand is the actual mentality of apnai people, you speak to the average man on the street, and they'll say they wanna see an artist doing well, and they wanna see more of our artists in the charts, and succeed and so on and so forth. But at the same time they still wanna go out and buy the bootleg of the CD, where the core industry doesn't get any money from it, rather than actually going out and paying for a legit CD. It's a complete contradiction. How do you expect artists to actually do well? The illegal internet downloads is seriously killing the scene.

Raj: It doesn't matter how much effort an artist puts into his work, we're still not getting a return from the market. We don't have any loyalty from the market or the public in terms of sales. It's the public that says whether an artist does well. Doesn't matter how good the music is, if there has been no figure of sales, no mainstream label or distributor or collaborating artist will touch them.

Pops: If you look at the mainstream they are mainly looking for market support, whether they are getting play in the underground or at clubs or whatever, they need to find a core market that they can get money from, return from. With the Asian scene, it's probably not worth them giving into it.

Richard: You're still unsigned, but you've kept up with the hustle. Some of the artists manage to get deals, or mainstream deals, or desi deals, simple question, why do you think these labels aren't signing artists of this talent?

Blitzkrieg: If you name me someone that's signed to a desi label that doesn't even count. For Mainstream are you talking about general acts or desi acts?

Irfan: General acts.

Blitzkrieg: In terms of hip-hop, I haven't really heard any decent hip-hop.

Irfan: Well for example talk of yourselves you guys aren't signed…

Blitzkrieg: Well personally I think it's not the time right now. I honestly feel right now, we're gonna be like the pioneers of this thing. I mean if I end up getting signed, I hope I do, knock on wood, that's why I'm out here hustlin' and bustlin'. That would be my dream come true.

Pops: Put it like this; think about Eminem, Eminem is probably the biggest rapper in the hip-hop industry. Being white, that took the credibility of Dr. Dre to bring a white MC in a black market. So I mean Eminem's a real talent so at the end of the day, if even if Dr. Dre thing never happened, I'm sure at point in time, he would come up. With these guys, desi artists, the talent is there, but it's like its either someone comes in and creates a collaboration somewhere that really gets us that credibility and opens that door properly and shows that as mainstream artists or whatever that it's just not cool to just work with these people as in getting them to do remixes but actually work with them on a proper level, you get what I'm sayin? Or you go the other route and keep working on your hustle and then your day will come.

Irfan: Do you think that time will come?

Blitzkrieg: Basically I've been saying this to everyone, I think we're gonna be the pioneers of this thing truthfully. I think the world ain't ready. I think there's gonna be a kid out there, that gets one of my CDs, gets inspired, and he is gonna be the kid to take it and you know make it in 10, 15 years and make it really big. You know what I mean?

Pops: Artists can try to balance out how long it can take to happen, but it's the people who decide and until people can find a way to break the culture of downloading, or buying under the counter copy, its not really gonna happen, until desi's show that yea we have a demand for this and sustained support for it, and not just a demand that we can't really prove. It's only when we have a demand that we can prove; it's in the hands of the public. If they go out and create that demand then desi artists can breakthrough.

Irfan: When I interviewed Mentor he said referring to Blitz, he called me up and said, "Yo I'm in Cuba, battling guys out here." How did you performed in these MC battles? Blitzkrieg: It was a learning experience cuz its just like amazing, cuz like say you go to Cuba, Cuba is basically stuck in like 1940's America. You're walking down the streets of Havana; they don't have anything past like 1950. It's so secluded from the American culture, that might be a good thing, in terms of hip hop there were cats out there MC'ing, they obviously see you're appearance and say " Hey, you're hip hop" and they would just start battling in the streets. They're rapping in Spanish, and I'm rapping in English, we don't really know what's goin on (everyone laughs). It shows the diversity of hip hop, and I actually picked up a Cuban raggaeton CD, its like their urban music down there

22k with Mentor

and they had PMC's tumbi on it with people MC'ing over it, and that shit blew my mind man! I was like yo, not only has hip hop made it so far, like I'm battling cats in Spanish, but like desi music, they're cats rapping on that in Cuba, like that shit was blowing my mind man! It's a learning experience everywhere you go. Out in Leicester we battled people; out in NY we battled people.

Richard: Is there anyone in the scene that you would want to battle mainstream and desi, who would, you want to battle?

Blitzkrieg: Battle? I don't wanna anybody; I wanna do collaborations. If I could do a collaborate with anyone it would be Nas or Mos Def, political MCs.

Richard: But who do you think you would be challenged to battle in any scene? Do you think you could go up against Nas?

Blitzkrieg: No way the man is a legend. I would never disrespect by saying I can take Nas, he's a legend, that's like Tigerstyle saying that they could battle Chamkila (laughs). That's just foolish, you can't play yourself like that, cuz that's a career killer. The man is a legend with the utmost of respect.

MC JD: I personally think if you're gonna battle someone. Battling is not going to prove your worth on the mic, I have been in some drum and bass battles, some hip hop battles. Its just kids coming up trying to prove themselves. If someone is already proved them self with an album, then why do you have to battle? And you're hustling your product and pushing it to a market that is buying your stuff, why do you have to battle people now. You wanna battle then listen to my CD first, and then work with me rather than battle me.

Blitzkrieg: JD has a point, I get more thrill out of just ciphering with local cats. You know somebody who has gotten signed is already at that level, but I like being in the street seeing that upcoming talent. I'm not an industry person; you can't call me an industry MC. I'm literally in the street rapping for 2-dollar kebabs (laughs). I battle with cats and we just go at it you know. Like in terms of industry MCs, I can't compare myself to anyone in the industry, cuz I am not in the industry. Street cats all day everyday! I just love ciphering with street cats.

Irfan: Who is the best person that you've battled? (Everyone laughs)

Blitzkrieg: Umm I just eat em all (laughs).

MC JD: The best sessions for me, are bathroom sessions at desi jams. If I am doing a hip-hop set, like I'll probably MC, I'll drop freestyles here and there. And then I'll go to the bathroom, and there's always gonna be 2 or 3 drunk Indian guys going, "you rhyme? Battle me!" and they'll come out with some Dr. Zeus's rhymes. That's basically how I heard of these guys I think it was like MD or someone in the bathroom, and he's like yea my boy Blitz is sick. And for a while I am hearing Blitz, Blitz, Blitz and then I finally linked up with him.

Blitzkrieg: That's actually how the whole clique linked up, anybody who says I enjoy battling the most, they're my team. Like if I respect someone and I like going up against somebody, and I am like this guy is bad, and I'll be like you should be a part of Asian Empire. Anyone I enjoy ciphering with is in my clique, and if I meet anybody new out there that gives me a run for my money ill say, "Hey, lets do this shit together." It's about uniting not dividing.

Irfan: That last question about MC'ing, what do you think about rappers totally goin on about something that's totally different from the singer, how do you feel about that?

Blitzkrieg: Half the time you got dudes like JD that doesn't even understand Punjabi (everyone laughs).

MC JD: (laughs) I did the track Tere Mere, and basically with that track, I sat down with the singer, cuz we did that track in one afternoon, three 40's of Budweiser's later, that track came out. But he wrote his lyrics, and I am like, "what are you saying?" like honestly I do understand Punjabi, but I don't understand Punjabi, like I didn't grow up around Punjabi people. Richard probably understands Punjabi more than I do! Its like I wanna learn it that's why I collaborating with them, I want them to tell me what they're saying so I can write verse that works with that. Now for cats coming up, you have somebody talking about their life story in Punjabi, and you got the MC singing libbidy dat etc, that's crap.

Blitzkrieg: But sometimes you would be surprised cuz that's what the producer will tell you to say something like that. You got a idiot producer that has a vocal that talks about a guy whose girlfriend died, who wants to kill himself, but the producer will want the MC to talk about being in the club drinkin Alizeh. You're like what the fu** are you talking about guy?

MC JD: I've honestly, I will not spit over lyrics, I'll sit down with the producer, and be like ok what is he saying? Explain to me, I'd like to talk to the singer. Tej Gill whom I did this with, I asked what is behind this, and he told me and I feel where the singer is coming from. If the singer isn't there then the producer can tell me, okay this is what its about and so on.

Blitzkrieg: Allotter times when it doesn't match, its usually cuz of lack of direction from the producer, he is not actually producing, there's a difference between producing and beat making. Some people make a beat and just slap it behind an acapella. That's not proper.

Tigerstyle

Irfan: So you're saying sometimes the MC talking about something different, is the producer's responsibility? Blitzkrieg: A producer's job is to give the direction of the track, to actually produce the track, not just make a beat and go you do this on it, and you do this on it. Raj: The producer has final say. Blitzkrieg: Its exactly what Raj said, producer has final say, why would he say yea that's cool bro. Pops: It's producers that are at fault really, cuz they're not selective, they just make do with whatever is there even if their track is going one direction and the MC's is going another at the end of the day that happens, for me, I'd be like I'd rather not use that MC then.

MC JD: I agree I have been in the studio the producer would be like; this is the beat, just spit on it. And I would be like what do you want me to say, and they'll be like just do your quick flow. So I do my quick flow and they are like yea, we gonna put it together and make a track out of it, and I don't even know how they are going to use it, and they are like, we're gonna put it on a track its gonna be Fire! I'm like I don't even know whom I am collabing with and you want my vocal. If you pay me to spit vocals for you, I am going to trust your judgement. But at the end of the day if I am talking about punani, and he puts on some next lines from a vocalist talking about my dad and mum died, then that's the producers fault.

Irfan: Mp3 downloads are a huge problem in the desi market, paying for downloads has proven to be effective somewhat in the mainstream market, do you feel the Asian buying public would pay for downloads in the same way?

Blitz: Umm no (everyone laughs) Asians will bootleg, and bootleg, and bootleg. I'm a bootlegger myself!

MC JD: I want to hear Tigerstyle's opinion on this.

Blitzkrieg: I'm bootlegging their shit I don't care (laughs jokingly).

Raj: Has there been any Asian label or website that has tried?

Irfan: Brasian Beats, Taz's label [Cyberphonic Records].

Raj: How far has Brasian Beats got?

Richard: Umm it's growing…

Raj: I don't think anyone has even heard of it at this point. There needs to be a hell of a lot of marketing to change the spending flow or generate a spending flow from the average public, and even more so for desi's.

Blitzkrieg: it's the future of music at the end of the day.

Irfan: Do you think people would pay for downloads, like if could get your tunes on iTunes, would it work?

Pops: If you make it easy.

Blitzkrieg: You have to make it user friendly.

Irfan: A lot of the countries, like Australia, Norway, Holland you can't buy the music, do you think they will pay for the downloads?

Raj: Some kid sitting in Norway that wants Tigerstyle material, is not going to sit and say I need BrasianBeats website to get the latest Tigerstyle track, they're not going to do that unless the marketing is in place. The easiest point of contact is the Tigerstyle website, where we have an online store in place, and we're working on the downloads soon too.

MC JD: That's what needs to happen, you need people from BrasianBeats, to go on all the message boards and let them know where to go, where the target market is.

Blitzkrieg: Basically it can work if it's done properly.

Irfan: Okay the real reason we are here now is to talk about the Mixtape, tell us more about the Mixtape Indians Strike Back Volume 2 (click here to view album review).

Blitzkrieg: Indians strike back Volume 2, and there actually weed being rolled on the case right there (all laugh). Da Coz: It's used for different purposes (laughs jokingly). We got to the UK and we're just hustling it and pushing it, you can get your free copy at twenty2k.com. Indians Strike Back Volume 2, its 22 Blazin tracks on it. We got a 15-minute bhangra set by the UK's one and only Tigerstyle. Blitzkrieg: Yea they were generous enough, these guys really look out for us and so I can't be more grateful enough to these guys. Da Coz: We got hit squad production on it; we got sound theory, sacrilegious, myself.

Indians Strike Back Mix CD Vol 2

Blitzkrieg: We got Apache Indian's son K on it; we got a drum and bass track by MC JD. So even if you're not a big fan of hip hop, we got 15 minutes of bhangra to choose from, you got a drum and bass track, you got some hilarious skits, and its FREE, from the website.

Irfan: The Mixtape as you said includes the 15 min set by Tigerstyle, who you describe as the Godfathers of Bhangra music, are they really that good? (everyone laughs)

Blitzkrieg: I think at the end of the day, I only work with people I respect, like that's all I can say, music speaks for itself man.

Irfan: Da Coz has done a track with our boy Nizam, Can you tell us about that?

Da Coz: Yea lil' nizzy! Nizam aka Nizzy hit me up to do collaboration, for this mix CD called Borderline that should be out soon. Blitzkriegs on it, JD should be on it, I might get E=MC on it, you know Nizzy hit me up, we did a track called "Like it Like that" its been pushing, so you know.

Blitzkrieg: He's a young guy coming up, doing his thing, hopefully he sticks to it, and you know we wish him all the luck.

Irfan: Any thing else you guys are up to, that the rest of the world should know about?

Blitzkrieg: We got the Hustle Beats mix CD Borderline in the works; we got the Indians Strike Back that we are currently pushing, I'm planning to do my solo album, and we'll be featured on the new Tigerstyle album which will be huge trust me! Also we have some stuff on E=MC's new upcoming album called "And What!" you can catch us on that. Also on the new Mentor Kolektiv album called 'Broke' coming out. Mentor and me are trying to do a whole album together.

MC JD: I'm working with Nu flow he's a producer coming up, he's doin like breaks, drum and bass, underground stuff. Blitzkriegs got hip-hop on lock so I can't touch that (laughs). I'll be on E=MC's new album. I'm just trying to do my thing. Our whole crew is trying to do different things for different markets, and basically what we wanna do is like Microsoft, monopolize the whole scene!

Blitzkrieg: We started filming a DVD, and so forth, we're gonna keep filming from the first day we hooked up, to the point where we release a full mainstream album. It'll be like a documentary like the making of the first Indian hip-hop group, not just little pieces here and there, like literally 3 years in the making, a proper hip-hop DVD.

Richard: How do you guys overall rate the live scene in the UK?

Blitzkrieg: UK, every area has their own vibe. Last year we came played Bombay Bronx and London Mela, and people loved it. We just played at Glastonbury and we just played Shaanti with Tigerstyle. It's a good vibe; I haven't gotten many bottles thrown at me (laughs). Much respect to UK.

Irfan: Any final words to the desitunes4u readers worldwide?

Da Coz: Big ups to desitunes4u!

Blitzkrieg: Thank you to people like Irfan, and DJ Dev and the whole crew, big up to anyone who is trying to revolutionize the game, and trying to bring new talent you know, and exposure, and make sure you get that free copy of the CD from twenty2k.com!

MC JD: www.twenty2k.com make sure to cop the CD!

Big thanks to the Twenty2k and Tigerstyle for doing the interview with us. Make sure you check out www.twenty2k.com, this is the start of big things to come trust us. Also a big thanks to Nizam for helping with the interview.