Popular rap artiste BlaaZe obviously used his 18 minutes of speaker time to, no points for guessing, rap. Dressed like a police officer with a glittering baton (which he referred to as his pimp stick), he chanted, “I rhyme for corruption…I rhyme because you listen.” Reading out an 18-page long rap song on which he had worked for over a month, BlaaZe urged people to step out of their comport zones and act against corruption.
“Music is life, but life is not music,” he rhymed, laying emphasis on the way most people turn a blind eye towards important issues and the society. There is immense power in the words that come straight from the heart, he believes.
“The power of words is so much more than just verbs and nouns,” he sang, before hitting the subjects of untouchability. “Why can't we live as one,” he questioned.
As he traced his journey from Zambia to where he is now, and explained the meaning behind his extremely long name, BlaaZe took his performance to another level by doing his world-famous BABA Rap tune. The crowd, who looked pensive, were lost in thought after BlaaZe’s strong words. They welcomed the breather and cheered and hooted.
His angst against crooked police, the Jessica Lal incident, the Gujarat riots, shone through when he sang, “Ban the police, the crooked police, the rapist police and the racist police.”
Through his music, he says, he hopes to be able to create songs that will not only make people sing and dance, but at the same time, appeal to their conscience. “It must penetrate into your soul and mind.”