In her debut single ‘That Girl’, when Moga-based hip-hop musician Paramjeet Kaur aka Param sings in a raw voice in crisp Malwa Punjabi, she pierces through the noise. She struts, prances and tells the man: “ Gall chaare paase hundi meri tor di… Ve tu samjhi na mainu kisse hor jayi… Utton akh vi rakhi aa 12 bore jayi… (Talk of my swagger reaches all four corners of the world/ Don’t mistake me for someone ordinary/ My stare is as piercing as a 12-gauge shotgun)”. While the song gleams with hip-hop gloss, what is unmistakable is a proclamation of grit from a girl who comes from a home that had very little. Yet she is undaunted, she teases, she brags and she steps over lines drawn by men.

Param is perhaps the first woman in the Punjabi hip-hop space, one that often sees women as accessories

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