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Dharavi based multi lingual Hip Hop crew 7Bantai`z have released their debut EP Into The Slum. The EP is a personal take on everything that the crew members have experienced while growing up in the slums. Into The Slum offers distinct sounds, flows, new moods and most importantly unpretentious music. In a statement the group says, “We have talked about our journey through this album. As the title suggests ‘Into The Slum’, we wanted the listeners to go through our daily lives and struggles through our eyes. Dharavi is like the hub of Indian hip-hop. Dharavi has every kind of person from India living in the same community. We are part of that community in Dharavi, and we are all of those people put together in one rap group. Through this album, we have expressed ourselves how wonderful our life is despite all the hardship, how we enjoy ourselves and the fact that we are still together after all these years. We write our own lyrics. We write about our own life incidents which happen in and around Dharavi. We don’t want to rap about what we have, what we want to have, and how big we want to become. We just want to show people who we are and the reality of where we come from, and we do that through hip-hop. This EP is an extension of it.”

The six tracks on the EP are ‘Energy’, ‘Whole Squad’, ‘In My Head’, ‘Turn it Up’ ‘Bambaiya Swad’ and ‘White Collar. Each of the songs explore diverse forms, they are unapologetic, experimental and contain verses in Hindi, English, Marathi, Tamil and Marwad.

Formed in the year 2014, when everyone in the group were only 14 years old – they were India’s youngest multilingual rap crew to make their way into the Indian hip-hop fraternity. The group`s current lineup include Mr Scam, MC Notez, Crackpot, Yoku BIG, Lil Damn and Bonz n Ribz.