Chennai rapper Nigavithran’s ‘Dishonored’ talks about the politics of the indie music space
The Hindu
Rapper Nigavithran’s new EP ‘Dishonored’ discusses the rejection that budding rap artistes face in the now-crowded indie music space
Eight months into the lockdowns in 2020, Chepauk’s rapper K Nigavithran released his first album 82 D Block, a well-rounded bag of eight songs about his memories growing up in the neighbourhood. It was the album that put him on the map.
However, a few months before the album released, Nigavithran was entangled in an episode with the police for being the flagbearer of a protest that happened in Chepauk’s Lock Nagar. He was on the lookout for two days, until it was proven to the officers in-charge that he had little to do with the issue.
Nigavithran turned the anger and frustration he felt at that point into a catchy rap song ‘Pazhiku Pazhi’ which is part of his first EP, Dishonored, that was released recently across streaming platforms. But it wasn’t this incident that triggered him to come up with the EP. Through Dishonored, says Nigavithran, he wanted to register the pain of Chennai’s budding rap artistes and the price they pay.