He’s gone through the fanciful highs of those early MTV Asia years and survived. He’s recorded with the great Indian composer AR Rahman.

Born in Zambia and living now in Mumbai, rapper BlaaZe has also used these lockdown days to look within, and keep making music- positive music that erases any anger around him and take things somewhere else.

His is an interesting journey that’s worth following. It’s not about the excess that was once upon a Fiddy. It’s something more in sync with a linear world without the phat of champagne and caviar, but instead keeping things real...