Flavacast- A blog on the Indian bboying, hip hop and urban scene

Hello,

I wanted to introduce my new blog called Flavacast:

flavacast
www.flavacast.com

I started this blog out of inspiration form my current one. I felt the need to create a platform for the Indian hip hop and urban scene. One of the reasons was the poor representation by mainstream media which not only skews the perception of our scene globally, but also among the youth in our country who get inspired by artists they see in traditional and online media.

Check out the blog posts. I also re-wrote one of the posts form this blog - "The story of Roc Fresh Crew".

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