: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Cartel Madras : Album.......: Age of the Goonda : : Label.......: Royal Mountain Records .. .:.. . Genre.......: Rap : Catnr.......: . ' Source......: CDEP , ; Rip.date....: 2019-11-10 Str.date....: 2019-11-01 Quality.....: 255kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://www.cartelmadras.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Jumpscare 1:39 2. Goonda Gold 2:30 3. The Legend of Jalape±o Boiz 2:06 4. Lil Pump Type Beat 2:18 5. Dawood Ibrahim (woof woof) 2:42 6. Glossy Outro 1:36 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 12:51 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 24.77 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: ôWe really want people who come to our shows to feel like :, : theyÆve been punched in the face,ö says Contra, one-half of rap : :' provocateurs Cartel Madras, of their FOMO-inducing live shows. ': ,: ôItÆs like a riot just passed you, and youÆre like, æWhat was :, : that? What did I just experience?Æö But also, ôæHow do I do that : :' again?Æö ': ,: :, : Cartel Madras also includes ContraÆs sibling, Eboshiùboth born : :' in Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and raised in ': ,: Calgary, Canada. Like their upbringing, their music is a :, : cultural syncretism, a heady mix of trap with punk, house, and : :' South Indian aesthetics that theyÆve anointed ôgoonda rap.ö ': ,: Their second EP is Age of the Goonda, (out November 1st, 2019 on :, : Sub Pop Records), a sonically expansive successor to their first : :' EP, Trapistan, which boasted the party-down hit ôPork & Leek. A ': ,: manifesto for the times, Age of the Goonda is an in-your-face :, : call to arms forùimmigrants, women of color, the LGBTQ+ : :' community, Desis (a.k.a. Westernized Indians)ùthose who must ': ,: resist being treated as underdogs. :, : : :' ôGoonda Goldö is the EPÆs central pulse, its anthem. ôWhen you ': ,: hear it, it feels big like youÆre watching this crazy-ass :, : gangsta movie,ö says Contra. ôAnd it does borrow from certain : :' vintage South Indian filminess.ö Rapid-fire in deliveryùôGold ': ,: on my neck IÆm a goonda / Got guns in the air like a juntaöùand :, : hastened along by shimmery beats from D.C. Desi upstart : :' SkinnyLocal, it pointedly shows off the duoÆs legit rapping ': ,: skills. :, : : :' The word ôgoondaö means ôthugö and is used across India, ': ,: Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Admittedly, Indiaùsaddled by tropes of :, : yoga, spicy food, and BollywoodùisnÆt generally associated with : :' thug life. ôBut India has a lot of fear and a lot of energy,ö ': ,: Eboshi says. ôThat story isnÆt told enough anywhere, except for :, : in India.ö Here, the duo rethink that angst as concepts of : :' cultural and sexual empowerment. ôThat is the song to all my ': ,: brown gurlz out there: blast this in your car and scare everyone :, : around you,ö she continues. ôIt comes in real hot. And we just : :' donÆt quit in that song.ö ThatÆs an understatement: They ': ,: actually held a gun in the sound booth while recording the :, : trackùbecause someone in the studio just happened to have one. : :' ôDonÆt ask me why,ö says Eboshi, then jokes: ôIÆm assuming it ': ,: was for cosplay.ö :, : : :' The trackÆs kindred spirit is ôDawood Ibrahim,ö named for ': ,: IndiaÆs Pablo Escobar, a gangster-terrorist from Mumbai :, : currently on the lam in Pakistan. They took the idea of : :' Dawoodùbold, unbounded, recklessùand filter it through a queer ': ,: female lens. Backed by Belgian trap producer DJ Yung Vamp, the :, : song features spacious synths and asymmetrical cadences in the : :' form of potent poetry such as, ôI fuck with all of my Desi ': ,: hunnis / Put my other goodies in my other gunny /IÆm cooking up :, : some dosa to some Motown / ThatÆs the wave IÆm on now.ö Ibrahim : :' never lived so well. ': ,: :, : The EP came together over in a little under 7 months. They wrote : :' the bulk of their material at their old Calgary apartment ': ,: (a.k.a. Thot Police Studios) and at a womenÆs songwriting :, : residency at Whidbey Island in Washington State. Marvels Eboshi: : :' ôWe were there for 10 days. In the woods. We were like, æHoly ': ,: shit! I didnÆt even know I could unlock these levels.ö By June :, : 2019, they had recorded Age of the Goonda at Echo Base Studios : :' in Calgary and had signed to Sub Pop. ': ,: :, : They grew infamous for their club shows and house parties around : :' Calgary, where they formed a hip-hop collective called Thot ': ,: Police. ôWhen we started out, we didnÆt know how many shows weÆd :, : be playing. So right away we treated every show like we might : :' not get another chance,ö Eboshi says. ôEvery time we do house ': ,: shows, itÆs been a massive rager.ö Adds Contra, ôThe cops came :, : through once to try to shut us down. We blew out all the : :' speakers.ö ': ,: :, : Your warning comes at the very start of Age of the Goonda in the : :' form of ôJumpscare,ö an ominous track produced by ': ,: noise-minimalist Nevik. It captures that chaos that Cartel :, : Madras are so adept at creating, and opens with possibly the : :' most subversive pass-the-mic verse ever: ôTake off your top boy ': ,: / Somebody bring me my gun / Black bag in the back of the jeep / :, : You just a bitch on the run.ö Says Eboshi: ôThe audience taps : :' into it right away. They start moshing and go crazy, and we ': ,: have a full mental breakdown on stage when we perform it.ö If :, : thereÆs any mystic, Eastern mind-body connection to what Cartel : :' Maras are doing, itÆs this thrilling lightning-in-a-bottle way ': ,: they deftly project activism and libertinism at once. :, : : :' ôThereÆs a certain thing that hip hop does, that gangster rap ': ,: does: a narrative of being larger than life, kind of violent but :, : in power,ö says Eboshi. ôWe are paying tribute to that, but also : :' focusing that on women who are queer and brown, telling stories ': ,: that havenÆt been told. We are speaking to, and about, :, : narratives that are not magnified in popular culture, while : :' paying tribute to the subgenres that have continuously ': ,: influenced our sound. ThatÆs what we want goonda rap to become.ö :, : : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 1 9 \/