Scalp Dem

Seedhe Maut come for the jugular. The Delhi duo — Encore ABJ and Calm — stack rapid-fire bars in a Hindi-English code-switch, the dense, internal-rhyme-heavy writing that made them the technicians of Indian hip-hop. "Scalp Dem" is a flex-and-threat record: the title's promise of taking scalps sets the tone, and the two trade verses like sparring partners who've memorized each other's timing. The beat is menacing and minimal — knocking trap drums, a dark looped motif, sub-bass that rattles the chest — leaving the voices exposed and aggressive. Their delivery is the draw: Calm's coiled, surgical flow against Encore's grittier punch, both riding the pocket with battle-rapper confidence and zero wasted breath. Lyrically it's supremacy and survival, dismissing imitators while asserting Delhi's claim on a scene they helped drag up from the underground. This sits squarely in the desi hip-hop boom, where artists rapping in their own slang built real audiences without Bollywood's blessing or a film soundtrack to carry them. It's gym-and-headphones music, the track you cue when you need adrenaline and no sentimentality — a reminder that India's rap scene produces lyricists who'd hold their own anywhere on earth. Hard, unsmiling, technically ruthless, and built to intimidate.