Listen To “Yari Road” by Microphon3

From the sounds of things, our city will soon be responsible for a whole new sub-genre of hip hop music we’d like to call “Andheri rap”. After all, the suburb is home to many of Mumbai’s best-known MCs, including self-described king Baba Sehgal, Hard Kaur, IshQ Bector, and the newest rhymer on the rise, Microphon3 aka 27-year-old Tanmay Bahulekar. Now just a couple of weeks after Sehgal released the video for his Bon Bon-referencing “Mumbai City”, Microphon3, who you may have seen at one of Bombay Bassment’s gigs, has “dropped” the latest hip-hop ode to our hometown, “Yari Road”, which incidentally he moved to just a couple of days ago. Even though the eponymous neighbourhood boasts a number of Bollywood and TV stars as residents, “Yari Road”, which samples “Yeh Hai Bambai Nagariya” from the 1978 film Don, focuses mainly on the locality’s traffic woes (it’s Andheri after all) and the disparity of incomes seen in the celebrity-dotted suburb, and by extension all of Mumbai. It’s not the first city-centric track by Microphon3; “Yari Road” follows “Wake Up! Mumbai!”, which was inspired by the killing of Ruben Fernandes and Keenan Santos; “Forever Bombay”, which he free-styled after the recent crackdown on the city’s nightlife scene” and “Mumbai Local”, which of course is about our trusty train network.