Death Threats, Mafia, Sidhu Moose Wala & SRK's Support ft. @YoYoHoneySingh | FO 85 - Raj Shamani

Were there people in your life? I don't have friends in the industry. Did you meet Sidhu bhaji?

That's the man. So at one point, your branding was that Honey Singh is the song. So what if I got defamed?

I got defamed. I never wanted to sing, never wanted to write. I've been a celebrity since childhood.

Are you scared that this might happen? To be honest, I'm only scared of death. I was diagnosed with 7 doctors from the world.

7? 7 from the world. My case was also very bad.

For the first 3. 5-4 years, the doctors didn't understand that this is over. Volume 1 and 2 songs used to come Kids did not know meaning of the songs.

We used to act cool. I never sang that song. I was also charged with that.

I never spoke. At that time, 4-5 people used to work together. What was his name?

Mafia Mundeer. Today, I'm talking about Mafia Mundeer for the first time. On any platform.

I've never done it. Mafia Mundeer's first. .

. Today is not Wednesday. But still, we are going to release a podcast today.

Because our entire team got excited after recording this podcast. So, today's podcast is with YoYo Honey Singh. So, today we have talked about manifestation.

How can you achieve your dreams by manifesting? Because I'm also a big believer of manifestation. And Honey Singh is also a believer.

After that, we have talked about when depression comes in our life. When a major disease comes in our life. After that, it's very difficult to come back in life.

But Honey Singh had a bipolar disorder. The world's big doctors tried to cure him by putting a lot of effort. And he was not getting treated even after that.

How did he fight that thing? And how did he come back after that and started giving back to back hits again? We have spoken about that.

And then, a very interesting thing happened in Punjab. And an interesting thing happened in Punjab. That he started a mafia.

Mafia Mundeer. He talked about it on the internet for the first time. And he told us about Mafia Mundeer.

What did he start? In which there was And there were a lot of big rappers. Who have reached a very big position in India today.

But why did they all come together and why did they all separate? He talked about that. And in the end, the question of the day that I had to ask him.

That recently he sold all his cars. What happened that he had to sell all his sports cars? Watch this episode till the end to find out the answers for all these questions.

And the inspirational journey of Yo Yo Honey Singh. 🎵🎵🎵 The first time, the first fan I made of the song. That was, this is called Hip Hop.

So that, because I feel that it is the most underrated song. Because there is a line in it. Pray for me, I will bring a Grammy.

So do you believe in manifestation? You used to say lines like this. Yes, I have been manifesting things since childhood.

And it is happening. And everything is going well. So I saw big dreams, slowly God kept fulfilling.

This song came 10 years ago. That was the dream then. Today that dream is still there.

There are many more big dreams. So definitely they will be fulfilled slowly. But I believe a lot in manifestation.

So it is already a matter of success? No, since childhood. Already a dream.

So you write, you speak, what do you do? I speak and keep focus on it. Now I will do this, I have to do this.

One day this will happen, one day that will happen. I will tell you a story. Alfaaz is my younger brother.

I came to sing with him. Hi My Heart. So he has been on stage with me for 12 years.

Has done world tour. So it is a matter of 2012. We went to your city Indore and were touring India.

In 2012 when I was newly hit. So there was a poster there, mine was very big. And there was a picture of Shahrukh brother on the side.

And his poster was smaller than ours. So he said, see our poster is big. Shahrukh brother's poster is small.

I said, one day this man will call us home. And it happened after a year. He called us home and I took Alfaaz with me.

I said, you asked me this thing and I told you this thing. Today this is happening. He was sitting in the car when we went to meet Shahrukh brother.

He was telling that this really happened. You told me this is happening. I will make a song and dance.

Why did you call us? To sing. What do you like about Shahrukh Khan?

You have said that Shahrukh Khan helped you a lot. You learned a lot from him. What do you like best about Shahrukh Khan?

Again I would like to tell this to someone. It is a very personal thing. Shahrukh brother told me something in 2013 in Australia.

I said, why don't you do action movies? He said, my zone is set. I want to see people in the same way.

I said, I will do it. I will do it after 10 years and make a body like this. No one can make it.

And today he did it. I think he has this manifestation thing. He has taught me a lot.

That you see big dreams. It is a good thing. Do it like this, do it like that.

Do so much hard work. Don't do this, do this. He taught me a lot.

I did a world tour with him in 2013 and 2014. For a year. Do you feel that people say that they are very smart.

In lot of thing, they focus on branding. That I will do every movie in the same way. So that my brand is intact.

Do you do the same? That I make every song in which my goal is seen by people. No, I don't work like them.

I don't even know how their way of working is. Maybe you don't know. True, I have heard this from outsiders.

My way of working is that I do everything from my heart. And I do what I feel like. I live my life.

When I was drunk, I did about drugs. I wrote songs, became a super hit. I did parties, about parties.

I broke my heart, about breaking my heart. I fell in love, about love. So whatever I did, I wrote and sang.

And people kept liking it. So I do the same things. In fact, Shahrukh brother asked me one thing.

You call me Sardar. So it's been 10 years. He asked me how I work.

I said I work from my heart. Mani Ratnam, A. R.

Rahman, Gulzar, Shahrukh Khan. All four of them worked from their hearts. I made them from my heart.

The movie was a hit. So I worked from my brain too. Then I thought this is a good thing.

I should use my brain a little. I don't use my brain in audio. How to package it visually.

I use my brain a lot in that. How? There should be a contrast.

Something that people haven't done. I am the only artist in Hollywood who shot a song for Desi Kalakaar. And it was such a big hit.

I did Blue Eyes Hollywood Boulevard a year ago. But that was not a big song. But not that big a production.

So in Desi Kala Kaar, a year later, when I shot in Hollywood again. With the Hollywood crew. It was a big production.

If you watch the video today, After the song ends, there is a 7 minute chase. Which is a useless thing. But I did it because my content will be on a platform for the next 10-20 years.

And people will see it. That he did this work. So I believe a lot in packaging and presentation.

I had a song, Don't hit the dope shop. Don't hit the dope shop. So when I shot a visual of that in 2010.

And when it was released in 2011. That was a total new visual for any Punjabi song. Do you see old data?

This happened because of the data Or do you see the trends of other people? NO So these 2-3 things. What is the process?

Tell me about the process. There are different processes. So what is the process of the song you made now?

Do you see what was done in the past? Or is it just a passion? No, no, no.

who makes up my mind I am telling you what I am living. I am singing that. I am writing that.

Honey 3. 0 album was made in September. I was in love.

And I was feeling too much romantic. And it was love all over my mind, brain, heart and everywhere. So I was just writing romance, romance, romance, romance.

After that my younger brother Leo from Patiala. He came to me and listened to the album. He said, there is nothing like the old ones.

I said, what I am doing, I am writing that. I am not doing those things. So I am not writing that.

He said, you will have to flip the album. You will have to give something for the old audience. Which is of some old style.

Except for the song Nagan, all the other albums were romantic. I kept Nagan in such a way that I am bringing romance. I am also bringing romance with dance.

It's very tough to make you dance on a romantic song. It's there. It was there.

So I said, I want to keep one song, Nagan, a spice song. Which the old audience will understand. And they will like it.

And it's an experimental song. Then Leo said, this one Nagan is good. Rest everything is good as well.

But it's too new. The audience won't accept it. Whether they will or not, there is a big discussion on that.

Which audience is left. And how much has increased. And how broad it has become.

That there are 100 artists and 1000 songs. It wasn't like this before. So which audience is accepting you or not.

That is a big debate topic. It's going on. It's a topic.

So he said, let's flip the album. So we put spices in many albums. The next songs will come after Nagan.

Very commercial songs. A lot of new things. But there is a lot of old style as well.

You said that I write all the songs on what I am living in my current life. So what are the current challenges? Have you written songs on challenges?

There was a phase in between where it was very challenging. I have written songs on challenges. But I won't release it yet.

Okay. Is there any specific reason for that? I mean those songs have knowledge.

Those songs have knowledge. And all that I. .

. My documentary is coming up. I have shared a lot of personal life.

and about the bad time, when i was ill. the discussion is in very detail I told turth and told him everything. If I release all those songs after that documentary, people will relate.

People don't know what Honey Singh is like. Honey Singh drinks 4 bottles of vodka, does drugs, sings double meanings, is a party animal. I am not like that.

He was a character, like all of you, an audience. That's when he related to me. He is talking about me.

We also shoot like this. We also blow like this. That's when people connected with me.

But I am not like that. I have not given any special interviews in my life. I have been giving interviews for the past 6 months.

Otherwise I would not have given an interview. I was waiting for a platform to come to me and tell everything on one camera, on one mic. tell everything.

And that was in the documentary. What are the current challenges? What do you feel as an artist?

Honey Singh's comeback is a challenge. Oh, big challenge. Why do you feel it's a challenge?

Don't you feel confident that the audience has accepted you? No, no. Do you know what?

I have released songs before Honey 3. 0. Some were successful, some were not.

The ones that were not successful were new. The ones that were successful were old. Old style songs.

But I have made the world go crazy in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. I have made it go crazy again. The Gen Z, who were 8-10 years old, now they are 18-20 years old.

Now they listen to different artists. They relate to them more. They are not able to relate to HoneySingh.

Because the audience of today, I won't say they have a lyrical sense, but their lyrical understanding is a little weak as compared to the audience that was 10 years ago. 10 years ago, the audience was very smart. They used to flip over the lyrics.

If you give them a light song, they don't enjoy it. They don't like it when you just add grooves and it's a vibe. There's a word going around in Gen Z these days.

The song is a vibe. What is he singing? I don't know what he's singing, but the song is a vibe.

So, now they are an audience. So, we will have to come up with some songs with a vibe. So, that's a challenge.

That's the biggest challenge. Making a vibe. And you focus on lyrics.

Yeah, lyrics and music. I don't have a special singing style. Whatever I sing with an auto tuner, I sing it.

The rest, lyrics is prime. Tell me one thing, just as a brother, younger brother, I'm asking. When you are successful, everyone is your friend.

When you have a downfall, when you are going through a tough phase, people get away to you. But were there people in your life who were there with you? No, a lot of people.

My friends, my parents. Are there any friends in the industry who stayed with you? I don't have friends in the industry.

My mentors and God brothers have been there. Like Akshay Kumar, Shahrukh Khan, Bachchan Sahib Godfather. They gave me a chance to stand with them.

People have been singing playback for 30 years. They couldn't stand with Bachchan Sahib. They couldn't stand with Shahrukh brother.

They couldn't dance. They gave me a chance. So, I won't say I have friends in my industry.

But they are God brothers and God fathers. Their blessings were with me when I was sick. When I was out of the scene.

And even today, I don't want to do Bollywood. I didn't want to do Bollywood in 2022-23. My focus was on the independent music scene.

Honey Singh will make the world go crazy again with his songs, his face, his music videos. This was my target. Akshay Paji called me last year.

I want a song of yours in the movie Selfie. You have come back. You look like you used to.

You are fit, happy, and making happy songs. Give me a song. I said, okay, I will give you a song.

Salman brother gave me a chance. I have a small rap in a song. I didn't sing the whole song.

It's a small rap. He called me to Hyderabad. He shot it.

He gave me a chance. These people are so wise. Why do you feel that there are so many successful people, struggling, who have met.

They don't get a chance so soon. And you got to stand with them. I am blessed.

Yeah, I am blessed. There is no other reason that they feel they must have seen something. There are lots of people more talented than me.

There are much more people who are less talented than me. But I am blessed. I am like a gifted son of God.

So, because of that, you keep getting opportunities. I am blessed, bro. What's next for you?

Lots of things. Because you have become famous, you have business, you have power, you have money. Why do you wake up in the morning?

What do you want to do? Is everything done? No, it's not like that.

I am very ambitious since childhood. What is your next ambition? I want to keep making music.

I want to keep earning money. I want to enjoy life. I want to keep my parents happy.

I want to be loving with my friends and brothers. And people say that a celebrity is someone who is famous. I have been a celebrity since childhood.

For me, celebrity means a guy, a person who celebrates his life every day. I have been a celebrity since childhood because I have been enjoying since childhood. You will see in my documentary.

There are a lot of archives from my childhood. So, you will see from childhood that this kid is something different. So, I want to celebrate life as a celebrity.

Simple. You know, I heard recently, you tell me, that you sold all your cars. Yes What's the story?

Tell me about that story. I fell sick and doctors said that I won't drive. Okay.

And I have never driven a car since then. I lost my hobby. I had a lot of money.

I had a lot of hobbies. I was young. I was 27-28 years old.

I had bought a lot of sports cars. I was doing all this. Now,I get old too, I am 40 years old.

So, you don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to do it anymore. I will buy a charter plane.

I will buy yachts. I am from Delhi. I will flex.

Okay, how you used to… Give me a background of… When you were starting, how did you earn money? Because… Bro, I have been making beats since 2003. In 2003, I was making beats for local rappers from Delhi who used to sing in English.

I was just a music producer. I never wanted to sing. I never wanted to write.

I didn't even know how to write. That slowly happened in 4-5 years. In 2003, I used to make hip-hop beats for boys in the underground.

They used to sing. At that time, Hindi rap didn't exist. All the boys used to sing in English.

So, after that, in 2005, I got a chance to sing with Ashok Mastie. Khadke Glasi Tere Naate. Thekeya Tere Te Khadke.

So, like… That was my first song as a music producer and a singer in English. So, that went on BBC World Charts as number one. I got an award for that.

But I didn't have work. Because that was a hip-hop beat. And no one wanted any other hip-hop beats.

There was something else going on in Bollywood. Ishq Di Gali Vichi No Entry. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

All this was going on. They didn't know what hip-hop was, how it would come, who would bring it and what would happen. So, that scene didn't exist.

I wasn't getting work in Bombay. I used to live in Delhi. There is no industry in Delhi.

There was only one regional industry, which was Punjab's. In Punjab, there was a drum. Every song had a drum.

My friends told me, shift to Punjab. You will get work there. You will get money there.

Two years, I said, no, I won't do it. I have a friend, Madhukant. He gave me money for food, clothes, fuel, CNG gas.

He kept telling me to go to Punjab and work there. I said, I won't play the drum. I am a hip-hop urban producer.

I want to be international. He said, you have to earn money. Your father is saying that you have to earn money.

Then I shifted to Punjab in 2007. Okay I did my first album, Rebirth, for a singer called Late Raj Brar. He is no more.

That album became a super hit in Punjab, Canada and UK. Then I started getting work. Different singers started coming.

Diljit came to me for a music production. I made his album as a music producer. I rapped in Punjabi at that time.

Many singers started coming. I used to make songs that were very urban. I started writing.

No one sang. I made a song in brown. No one sang.

I started as a solo independent singer, music producer, writer and performer. Since then shop started. So, there was only one avenue to earn money.

Yes, only one. How many avenues are there now? God's will is coming from everywhere.

Give me an idea of how an artist earns money. My father says that the main shop you are working in, you have to open it daily and earn money. If you save money from that and open a small shop, then don't go to that shop.

If you earn money from that and open a big shop, then don't go to that shop. You have to sit in the same shop as the one who has given you the other shops. My prime focus is music and entertainment.

I earn all my money from here. My focus is here. Rest, I have some investments in business.

It is all going on. It is not important. That's just like everything is growing.

But definitely, next year, I am going to start as a producer of films. And a lot of work is going on. Okay, tell me Punjab.

Let's go back to the Punjab days. That's where your journey started. Every school kid was singing songs.

That was the fun times. At that time, 4-5 people used to work together. What was his name?

Mafia Mundeer. Yeah What was it? Nothing like that.

4-5 people never used to work together. Mafia Mundeer, started from Punjab And who were the people in it? What was it?

I made a platform. I didn't make a band. The other boys who joined Mafia Mundeer, they all joined from Delhi, not from Punjab.

Alfaaz joined from Punjab, there was a J-Star boy, a Money Hauza boy, a boy named Ninja, who is still a famous singer by the name of Ninja. And all these people were artists. Mundeer means a bunch of boys.

Not gangsters, not gangs. A bunch of boys. If a boy is standing, people say, there are four or five boys standing.

Let's go there, boys are standing there. Don't go there, boys are standing there. In Punjabi, it's called Mundeer Khadi.

Mafia is an ideology, I believe, from so many years. Because they have discipline manner and inspired by movies and documentaries. I don't believe in gangs, but I believe in the mafia.

Tell me the difference. It's a huge difference. Gangsters, they kill on the streets.

They fight on the streets. They make gangs on the streets. Mafia, they sit on the table with suits, they control them.

They control gangsters. They control the streets while sitting at home at the dinner table. while cooking, while sitting in the office.

It's organized. They're organized criminals, but my influence is not from crime. It's from their ideology.

And the biggest ideology that I liked, which is why I'm talking about Mafia Mundeer for the first time on any platform. I've never done it before. Everyone asks me questions, I refuse.

Many artists claim that they made Mafia Mundeer, and I'm Mafia Mundeer. What was the first principle of Mafia Mundeer? And what was the most inspired principle of Mafia Mundeer, which is why I named it?

Which is respect and hierarchy. The boys who say that they were in Mafia Mundeer and call me Honey, they were never in Mafia Mundeer. If they can't call me Honey Paji (Brother), I'm not saying respect me.

If you're saying you were in Mafia Mundeer, then you should follow the hierarchy protocol. You can't say that I was Honey Singh, and that Honey Singh started it, and that I started it. Honey Singh was there, and so was I, and so was he, and so was he.

Everyone says that. I've never said that on any television or in front of a camera. Because it's an ideology.

If you're saying that you were in Mafia Mundeer, then you're in Mafia Mundeer's ideology, which is respecting a hierarchy. It's not that you're not respecting me. You're not respecting the hierarchy that's below me.

Interesting. So this was the first principle. So on that basis, you made a platform.

I just made a platform so that everybody should come and sing, and have fun and entertainment, but in a Mafia style. Respect the hierarchy. What you make, you share.

What you make, you share. Which movie was the idea? I just want to know.

Godfather type. Godfather is a very bad movie. Okay.

I. . .

I like Scarface a lot. Okay. A lot.

But there was a movie called Carlito's Way, which was not a Mafia movie, it's a gangster movie. But if you see in that too, the character played by Al Pacino, who played Carlitos, despite being a gangster, he's a Mafia. He's in the streets, even though his.

. . everything is so Mafia.

So if he had sat on a big chair, he would have been a big Mafia instead of Carlitos. Do you like any Mafia movies in Bollywood? In Bollywood, I think there's only one Mafia movie in India's career, and that is Maqbool.

Maqbool. Maqbool. A similar movie like that, came out in 2003, made by Vishal Bhardwaj.

A similar movie like that, made after Sholay, so that's what it is. Tell me something, recently it has become very famous, that in Punjab, or Haryana, or specifically in the North, in the North region, you become a big artist, or whatever, so people start threatening you. I mean, you get death threats, or they say, cooperate with us, give us a donation, or else they won't do it.

So is this real or. . .

I don't know, I don't have much knowledge about this, but it's not just in the North, Yes, it's worldwide. There have been so many contract killings in Bombay, in the 90s, you know it. Everybody is like, it was a very bad situation here, it's not just about the music industry or film industry, builders, builders, they didn't spare anyone.

Are you scared, like, have you ever thought about it, that are you scared, that something like this has happened? I am scared of death, and to be honest, I am only scared of death. I am scared of any incident.

Anything, anything. I am only scared of death. Has anything like this happened, not an incident, till now?

No, nothing like that has happened. Nothing like that. Okay.

But, I have seen death many times. Elaborate, if you are being told. It was a very dark phase, I don't want to talk about it, when I was in bipolar disorder for 7 years, and I was at home with psychotic symptoms, for five and a half years.

So, I was so scared of death, and I was so scared, I was in fear, I was in fear, I was getting a lot of fear symptoms. I was scared of this light, I was scared of this chandelier, this will happen, this will happen. So, it used to feel like, it used to feel like death.

So, that also happened. But, I am finally back. No one can come and kill me.

You know, I have seen that very closely as well. Because, one of my very close family members, have gone through the phase of this. And, I think, one of your interviews, you have spoken about, that you used to take a medicine called Shizopin.

Yeah, Shizopin. I have seen that, I have seen its repercussions, I have seen its consequences. I can understand what you are going through, because I have seen such.

In my documentary, according to me, there is a whole session of 12 to 15 minutes, where I am telling about medicines, and my experiences with them. And, I think, all the kids who are struggling with mental health, worldwide, and are facing it, they don't understand anything. I had 7 doctors from the world, on me.

7? 7 from the world. My case was also very bad.

My case was very bad. And, for the first 3. 5 to 4 years, the doctors didn't understand that, that, this is, you keep giving him medicines, and keep putting him to sleep, and keep feeding him.

That's it. That's it. That's it.

Some system. How did you come back? Like, what?

Gradually, my doctor changed. My life changed. It was very good.

It was the prayers of my parents, my friends, and my fans, that they wanted to bring me back. I was slowly getting better. Despite getting better, I was making some songs in between.

I made a song in my illness. Gradually, I started making remakes. It was the first 200-300 million in India.

And, then my heart got broken. What should I do? Kartika Ranjani's film.

Then I got a little better. I thought I would be independent. Then I made a song, Sainya Ji.

I was fat. I was not able to walk. I mean, the song was going on, but I was not enjoying it.

Gradually. So, with these little things, you got better. Gradually.

Okay, tell me, did you meet Siddhu Bhaji? No, I didn't meet him. I spoke to him twice.

And when he came to Delhi twice, I was not in Delhi. So, I couldn't meet him. I spoke to him on the phone, but only in small details.

I didn't talk in detail. No, not at all. You were never this close.

No, I was not. I wanted to understand his ideology. Okay.

Let's go to your initial phase. Okay. Because, in school, there were songs from Volume 1 and 2.

And the kids didn't know the meaning. And we all, as cool boys, All boys club used to sing those songs. So, at one time, your branding was like, that, Honey Singh sings these songs.

Right? That, if Honey Bhaji is there, he will do this and sing these songs. So, after thinking this, you wanted to turn around your image, or you wanted to make songs?

Which image did I change? Which song did I sing? You sang quite popular, commercial songs, which you can listen to in public, and party.

I have sung them. I haven't sung any other songs. Okay.

So, Volume 1 and Volume 2 were not your songs? No, never. So, what was the association with them?

The association was, because, Anna Wina is dancing on a yacht, in a bikini, in a dope show. And I am telling her, Chakko Chakko Chakko, Koi Fresh Nahi Ho Milna. I made a joke, Chakko Chakko Chakko, Koi Fresh Nahi Ho Milna.

There were protests against it. Then there was a song, another one, Baladkari. I haven't sung that one either.

I was also charged with that. I never said it. If I would have said it, the matter would have stopped there.

Why didn't you say it? What was the scene? I said, it's going on, what do I need it for?

I am doing my work. I never said that. Now everything will open up.

I don't want to sit on the news channel and do this and that. This doesn't mean this, this doesn't mean that. I didn't want to do that.

The time will come when we will speak on one camera and one mic. What will happen for that? I will be told that he is misogynistic, he is spoiling the youth, he is making songs on alcohol and drugs.

She is listening. I have seen girls getting drunk in Delhi in 2009. I used to live in Chandigarh.

When I used to come to Delhi, she used to get drunk. Then I wrote a song, Anna Veena, Doop Show, Mare Karo. I am telling that girl not to do this Doop Show.

But Honey Singh makes songs, Doop Show. Sing it bro, you are promoting. So do you believe in this that every promotion is good promotion, bad promotion is promotion?

It depends upon you. What do you believe in? Do you know what happens?

People believe in image. There are many in India. Many famous people believe in this.

I don't believe in that. That what if you are defamed, you are defamed. What am I?

What is my core? My core is not bad. I know this, I don't need to tell anyone.

If I am telling you that don't knock the door, come straight in and come. So if you are taking this wrong, then you are bad, I am not bad. Ture I saw a dream, so these are the things.

Flowers, lady singer is saying, even if there are flowers, there are distances. The girl is saying that stick to me so much that there is no flower in between. What is this?

Gulzar sir, smoke a cigarette, drink from the heart, the heart is full. Female answer, female singer is singing. Gulzar sir is writing, 400 people, among the bad people, an actress is dancing.

There is a lot like this. So it's just a matter of positioning, you feel. It's a matter of thinking.

And what happens is that people keep saying what they don't say. That this guy won't speak, put it on this. He won't speak, put it on this.

Have you ever thought like this in the middle that I will change my positioning, I will do something. There is no point in changing the positioning. What is positioning?

Nothing happens. I mean, what I am seeing, I am singing. What I hear, I hear Rukmani, Rehman sir, Rukmani, Rukmani, what happened after marriage.

Who lost, who won, look through the window. It is in the internal, it is in the arms, put your arms, sweet talks are happening. The sourness is also slowly becoming sour.

I have been listening to this. I grew up listening to this, I grew up listening to Rehman sir. Rehman sir sang this.

Baba Sahgal has sung this and Rehman sir's music. What have I brought from outside? Everyone picked it up from here.

Where have I brought it from outside? A hundred years ago, I loved you. If I sing this today, no one will listen.

Hmm. Interesting take. Never thought of this way.

Okay, tell me a few things on your process of building music and content. Earlier, people used to make content, package it, viral it. We said that lyrics used to be very focused.

It was very different. Now, the whole game has changed due to short form. Yes, it is happening.

So, is there any take on that? What do you feel? I don't know, I am still like unaware.

I am still confused. Earlier, I used to make this thing. I made a song, Brown Rang.

I said, this song, Hip Hop beats, in which I am singing very Punjabi lyrics. Kudiye Ni Tere Brown Rang Ne. I said, I will make a body for this.

I made a body for three months. I said, I will shoot internationally. I picked Dubai.

I said, I will pick a white director. So that the canvas looks international. I picked a white director.

I shot. As soon as the shoot was over, I got the first copy. I said, this will work.

After that, Shahrukh brother called me. English beat song was playing. I made English beat.

I said, this will work. I made dope show. I said, this will work.

Whatever I made, I said, this will work. I used to do like this. Shahrukh brother said, make a song like English beat.

I said, no. He said, what is the vibe of your movie? He narrated the movie for three hours.

I said, if I will make it, I will bring a super hit. Otherwise, I will not come. I made a lungi dance.

I said, if you want, it is fine. If you don't want, it is okay. I will release it single.

But this will work. Today, I have 52 songs in my bank. I can't say on one song.

It is not that I have lost my confidence. The scene has changed. For more than two weeks, no song is played.

Content becomes boring. We have got used to it. Now, you will get a five-minute break.

You will play Insta and refresh the feed. Because you have to see something new. Earlier, it was not like this.

Now, the time has changed. I am learning this. from last six months, I am learning I will keep learning.

I have to learn this. Only then I will be able to bring the time which I had brought earlier. At that time, people thought that Honey Singh came.

He did this and that. It was my homework of 10 years. Now, he is starting his homework.

It is true that This is the right line quote to the Indian Indians are shown western culture but they talk in Indian. It works. Usually, it was like this in songs.

Your songs will be played like this. The vibe is from outside but the lyrics are from here. It works in brands too.

I will tell you about a brand. Have you heard of Ching Noodles? The founder of Ching Noodles believes that the brand should look like a foreign brand.

Ching Noodles will be popular in India when people will think that it is a foreign brand. It is made for Indians but it is a foreign brand. It should have a vibe like this.

It worked. There are many other products which give a foreign vibe in India. Your ideology was the same.

Now, it works. I shot Nagan in Mexico. Nagan is a song which is very Punjabi.

I am influenced by three people. Mr Rehman, Apache Indian and Amar Singh Chamkila. I am influenced by their personality, music and lyrics.

I tried to copy Amar Singh Chamkeela's vocal texture in Nagan. I sang it in a very Punjabi style. I am talking about a girl from Romance.

I like her a lot. You are my Nagan. She is very poisonous.

I am also very poisonous. I shot this in Mexico. I shot this in Mexico.

I shot this with 70 girls in bikini. It was a totally different visual. This is what I want to present.

My sound and my lyrics are based on that visual. I am talking in brown. I will make you understand one thing.

I will never touch the dead. It is a very Punjabi line. I will not like an ordinary girl.

I am making you understand. I will like you. I am singing in a canvas where Bukati is behind me.

This international style. I do shows in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Chennai. They sing these lines.

They don't even know what it means. It is a very Punjabi line. I tried the same in Nagan.

Last two questions. On this, if you look at America, the songs they made became global songs. In India, we have not made global songs except for Punjabi music.

Some Punjabi music is becoming global. This strategy was for showing a global approach and becoming world wide mainstream. In my life, my first priority is my 1.

5 billion brothers and sisters. I don't give a f**k to international music scene. I will be in international music scene as a music producer but not as a singer.

Because I don't know English and I don't know how to write. I know my local language. So, I never had a way to impress them.

My thought was that a desi boy from Delhi, lower middle class, slowly, slowly, in this big camera, big city, big country, in this big set up, is shooting but talking about roti and okra. Yeah. Desi artist.

So, I didn't talk about pizza. Although it's lying here. I talked about roti and okra.

So, I never paid attention to a white woman. But what should we do to make our music global? Because, look, Spanish music.

. . We are global.

Except Spanish, English music is not listened by 1. 5 billion people. Spanish music is listened by 7 billion people.

Despacito, etc. Their population is more. We are global.

Why should we think that we are not global? We are international people. We are everywhere.

Sidhu did it. Black people listen to Sidhu. We should respect him for that.

He didn't sing in English. He didn't make big music videos like me. My style was different.

My thought was different. His thought was different. I will sing on a tractor.

He had courage. That's why he is the same. He won't be the same again.

Interesting. So we should focus on ourselves. We should focus on ourselves.

We should take India ahead. We don't want to reach the black and white. Modi Ji speaks in Hindi.

He doesn't speak in British accent. He is a simple man. That's the man.

That's gonna work. Last thing I want to understand from you is When you face a dark phase, what is the most challenging thing? How do you overcome that?

People used to give up hope. I am the kind of person who has never faced any dark phase. You don't have any dark side?

I have never faced any dark phase. From childhood till now. I failed in school, but I didn't face any dark phase.

I fought with my father, but I didn't face any dark phase. I did this, but I didn't face any dark phase. I laughed.

I didn't sing in music, but I struggled. I didn't face any dark phase. I used to have fun.

My nature was like this. I have a friend, Rohit, who is my manager. He manages me.

I never faced any dark phase. I never faced any dark phase. I was hate, I was sued, I was a protester.

Media was talking nonsense. I didn't face any dark phase. I was drinking alcohol.

I used to do all this. But when I fell sick, I saw the darkness. I was completely changed.

I didn't understand what a disease was. It was a very dangerous disease. Very dangerous.

So you are telling me that you never faced any dark phase until and unless this personal bipolar disorder happened. Because you said that you never faced any dark phase. I never faced any dark phase.

I am asking you a second question. Do you feel that if you don't embrace this, you will be low in life? Or are you afraid of anything?

Like maybe, I don't know. I do one thing for which everyone stops me. Except my parents and my sister.

I trust a lot of people. Only three people don't stop me. Everyone stops me.

Sir, you should be brave. Brother, you should be brave. I am not afraid of that.

I will do it again. Even if I break, I will do it again. I don't think about anything.

Nothing is like that. Keep trusting people. Keep doing your work.

Cool. Thanks brother. Thank you so much.

One last thing on the fun side. All the hip hop artists who have come to our podcast wear glasses. What is the scene?

I sleep at 8 am. My eye is swollen. I don't drink alcohol.

But My eye is swollen. I sleep at 8 am. And I wake up at 4 pm.

I sleep at 8 am and wake up at 10 am. I don't wear glasses. But I have to wear it.

Because I don't get sleep. So I wear this glasses for swallen eyes. He is still drunk.

In the interview. That's the only reason. All the artists wear it.

It's their style. It's not my style. I just have that my is swollen.

Do you stop drinking now? Occasionally. But I didn't drink at all in the past.

And I haven't been drinking for 9 years. That you are very open about it. Yes.

Did you ever drink and go to the show? No. I didn't drink at all.

I had an incident. It's in my documentary. When I used to dance, people used to think that I am drunk.

I have that much energy, that success addiction My music is wild. My lyrics are wild. And 10,000 audience are jumping in front of you.

So that energy used to come back. People used to think that I am drunk. I never got drunk.

I told this incident in my documentary. Why did I got to the stage for the first time after getting intoxicated? I never perform after drinking.

Do other artists do this? I don't know. I don't stay with other artists.

Nothing happens. Perfect. Thanks brother Thank you so much, Thanks for doing this Thank you so much for watching this episode till the end.

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