Social issues are widely covered in Hip-hop worldwide. Even in India, underground rappers got recognition because they made songs on social and political topics. The best thing about rap is that you can say a lot in less time with a lot of information and emotions, you can let out your point of view on the society in a rap easily but to do so, you surely need guts, because talking against socio-political issues will get you so much hate too. So, hats off to these rappers who tried to school society with their pen and mic.
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In this list we will cover the 10 best rap songs on Social issues which you should listen to, we covered one artist for one place so more artists can get in the list because if not then the list will be filled with only rappers like EPR and we would not cover raps on COVID 19 also as it has a separate blog with 10 best raps on COVID 19, you should check it out.
This list is not ranked as every artist spoke their heart out in these tracks and we can not judge them but yeah we will talk about the quality of track as always because it’s important. I hope you guys will be satisfied with this list.
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1. MANTOIYAT – RAFTAAR
Raftaar is known for his underground and mainstream works but this was the track in which Raftaar really said everything he wanted to. Because of being signed to a label, he could not make many hip-hop tracks but in this track, Raftaar went all out and it’s a great achievement to make a hip-hop track commercial.
With this, he proved that he brought underground to the mainstream. Why this track is a big deal to become mainstream? because he used words that were never used in commercial tracks before, cuss words are totally not what these big labels support but thanks to ZeeMusic they did support it and trusted Raftaar.
This track was made for the movie named Manto in which the read role (Manto) was played by the great actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, he was even in this song and video.
This track is filled with points about bad society and the thinking of Manto. It is said that Manto used to write the most bitter truth as a writer and people hated him for that.
Raftaar covered almost all social and political topics in this track with his amazing lyrics. His lyrics have the power to make the message 100 times better. One of the best Indian Rap On Social Issues.
In short words, he talked about how we as a society are a complete failure because of all the crimes happening and there is almost no justice, corruption is everywhere and no one is standing against it.
The lyrics of this rap were inspired by Manto as they have credited Manto in the lyrics section and Raftaar made the music of this track proving why he is one of the best artists in the Indian industry. This track has over 40 Million views now and it will surely hit you deep with the quotes performed by Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
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2. EKLA CHOLO RE – EPR
EPR has been touching on a lot of social issues, and he is a socio-political rapper. This track just shows how much hip-hop can be used for expressing your emotions and social issues.
This track was about the situations of farmers in our country, many farmers commit suicide every year and this track was made after a video of a farmer got viral where he was telling his problems, how he had to sell his vegetables for so low rate. EPR talked about everything in this track that how the government doesn’t care about farmers at all, even after so many cases there was no media coverage and companies are selling pesticides and seeds at a really high cost.
This track will make you really emotional as the video concept of this song is so painful too. In the video, the farmer was burying himself with his daughter on the farm because of drought. And the saddest part is that actually happens, farmers are committing suicide with their families because they have nothing to survive on.
This track is so real and EPR put his heart in this and you should check all tracks on social issues. One of the best Indian Rap On Social Issues.
This track got over 800k views and it deserves more, rappers using their art to change society deserves a lot more than this. They are risking themselves and their career for it.
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3. VAISHNAVA JANA TO – BRODHA V
This socio-political anthem is one of the best songs from Brodha V. What makes this song so catchy is that Brodha V used an Old school Boom Bap beat with a bhajan as the chorus. And it worked out the best.
Let’s discuss the track first, this track is completely in English as usual from Brodha v. This track is catchy because of the bhajan named Vaishnav Jana To which Mahatma Gandhi used to sing and the hook of this track is also great.
The Indian classical vocals are done by Aishwarya Rangarajan and she just did an amazing job, that voice will stick you to the track, The music, rap, lyrics and mixing were done by Brodha V himself as he is a full package in the music industry. now let’s discuss the topics discussed in this track.
In this socio-political anthem, Brodha V highlights the inequalities around him, the propaganda of separatism spread by mainstream news outlets, and urges people to look beyond divisions of caste and religion, and come together as one.
Brodha just talked about everything wrong going around him in this country and with his lyrics, he just nailed it, he talked about how the hands which need books are holding knives because these poor children are turned into goons because they have no study and movement is too busy to focus on this as they got temples and mosques to fight over.
Brodha V covered almost everything in this track and he deserves more views, there are just 2 Million views on it. He dissed everything which is wrong with our society in the best way possible. One of the best Indian Rap On Social Issues.
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4. KAISA MERA DESH – KR$NA
This anti-corruption anthem was the first hip-hop track to go viral in India, Kr$na as Young Prozpekt did it 9 years ago at the time of Commonwealth Games in India, This rap was made to show the poverty of India which the government ignored at that time. When the Commonwealth Games were held in India, everyone was happy about it but India was a joke on the international level.
This was a song to vent out all the frustration and embarrassment we as Indians have been put through triggered by the complete mess our officials made of the CWG in Delhi. But still, the government was behaving as nothing happened.
So kr$na made this track when his stage name was Young Prozpekt, he showed the reality of this country in his music video and his lyrics, kr$na is pure hip-hop like brodha V and EPR, he had songs like Vijay, Lokpal, Desi wrap up, etc on social issues.
This track was trending number 2 overnight in 2010 and it’s a big deal. It shows how much the people agreed with this rap song.
Kr$na has been in the game for a really long time now, he had made all kinds of hip hop and this track was one of the masterpieces he has done in his journey. This track might be viral at that time but it still just has over 130k views and it surely deserves more.
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5. FOD DENA – FOTTY SEVEN
Rape has been a really serious problem in our country because of loopholes in our law system many rapists survive and there are thousands of cases that are not reported.
Fotty Seven released this track when the Dr. Priyanka Reddy Case happened, it was a real shock to everyone. No one could believe that humans can destroy humanity on such a level, Fotty Seven wrote that he can’t even write about it because his hands are shaking while thinking about the pain and darkness she might have suffered from but how can these rapists are doing that without any guilt or fear.
In this track, you can observe that Fotty wants to do more but he is limited to his pen and he is still doing his best with it. One of the best Indian Rap On Social Issues.
The main meaning of this song was that if you ever encounter any similar incident just do what you can do to help the victim! Because the judiciary system has failed itself so it’s all on you to help each other and it’s called humanity.
Artists are doing their best to spread awareness cause that’s what they can do the best with their art. They are educating people with their raps and we as an audience should support them all.
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6. #NORAPE – EMIWAY
Emiway raised his voice when the Asifa rape case happened, it’s so sad to see that how women are afraid to meet any boy alone, Emiway rapped about it and he believes that women are now afraid to hang around at night just because of some filthy men and still this society just blames there clothes which really shows how dumb people are!
Emiway even said in this track, that he was waiting for the government to create a strong law but nothing happened and he could not stay quiet and came up with this song. He named this track #norape so that it can aware more people and people can affect the decisions of government.
They tried to force the laws and even in the video you can observe how he is performing in protests and all people are together against Rape culture.
This track is really emotional and the lyrics will touch you deeply, Emotions are the best weapon of an artist and you can feel the emotions in their social tracks. One of the best Indian Rap On Social Issues.
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7. NAARI – IQLIPSE NOVA
This track will definitely give you goosebumps, yeah as the title suggests it’s based on women’s rights and how women are harassed by society. The best thing about this song is its video, the video featured 7 girls who were lipsyncing on the rap and the rap was performed by Shlok and iqlipse.
The rap was written by shlok, the lyrics are simple but super powerful and you will just get deep into it when the chorus will hit you.
They almost covered all topics in this track like how girls are not allowed to roam around at night in most of the households and how people blame everything on their clothing like the girls with full-length clothes are safe in this country! And they talked about how filthy men take everything on their Ego, if a girl rejects them then they will just call her whore and things, Even most of the acid attacks were happened because of such rejections. The points they covered are totally legit.
This track really deserves a lot of recognition, everyone needs to understand the value of a woman, yeah there are cases of false accusations against boys by girls but that does not mean that girls are not oppressed. Stop defending your race and start respecting each other properly.
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8. NAARIVAAD – STARNICK
So this track is in support of men, now as I said above that there are girls who just destroy the lives of men by playing the victim card. Starnick did a great job of expressing her thoughts on equality.
This track was pointed to the girls who abuse their rights and word feminism. They use the word feminism as their shield to play the victim. This track will hit you deeply too, it is all about how girls stalk boys too but if a boy does the same then it’s crime and girls just accuse boys of fake harassment just for money and to destroy a life.
There are even fake cases of dowry just for money. And even in the recent locker room case, there were girls who were doing the same thing as boys. It’s sad to see how few messed-up people of the community just embarrass everyone.
The best topics starnick covered in this track were about how women like Kalpana Chawla and Mary Kom earned the respect of everyone by fighting against all the odds and few pseudo feminists women are just wanting respect without doing anything. One of the best Indian Rap On Social Issues.
Well this all does not change the fact that crimes are women is high but it also does not change the fact that some filthy women are using their sympathy against men. so it’s all about respecting each other on the human level.
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9. KATTARWAAD – RAP ID
This masterpiece is totally one of the best socio-political raps, this is based on the recent religious conflicts that happen in our government because of CAA and NRC.
These conflicts grew a lot and a lot of people died in it, corrupt media and government just kept putting oil in the fire. While Artists like Rap ID tried to make people understand how these all higher authorities want to separate everyone.
In this rap video, there are 2 boys sitting in front of each other, one is Hindu, and the other is Muslim, now this is not a typical rap on religion. They confront each other with their side of the story as a coin has two faces.
And at the end of the video, there is a sweet twist too. In this Rap, the rapper talked about both perspectives of both religions. he talked about the negative perspective of both religions. One of the best Indian Rap On Social Issues.
In the end, he just left a message that there are differences with everyone but you can not hate each other based on it! Respect every religion and every person, no religion or holy book told anyone to hate each other.
This is a democratic country and we have a long way to go along. This country runs because of us and in the end, there is an audio of politicians giving hate speech too. which shows how corrupt the government is!
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10. MANDIR WAHIN BANEGA – DHEERU KHOLA
Well, after all the seriousness here is a sarcastic but powerful track. This is a song made to highlight the harsh reality of our society. And this is a message presented in an entertaining way to state the fact that “The leaders/Politicians do not fulfill all the promises that they make before the elections time.”
The artist dheeru Khola is a Haryana-based rapper and he really did a great job at lyrics and sarcasm with bitter truths. This song spoke things like how politicians just care about money and hype.
The case of Mandir happened in Ayodhya, in which a lot of conflicts happened and the government again just increased it on the basis of religion.
Dheer Kholi also talked about how these politicians don’t care about the main topics like education and poverty at all, they all just want to win the elections for corruption. And they are so much into the dirt that they just buy votes and do a lot of illegal crimes. One of the best Indian Rap On Social Issues.
This track is sarcastic and fun to listen to, there is a drop in it made with speeches of politicians and it is really great and funny. Even after being sarcastic, this track has a lot of truth bombs and it’s easy listening to because of lyrics as they are not complex.
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With this last track, our list ends here and I hope you guys liked it, nothing is ranked in this list, it’s all just top songs we think you will love. Listen to them all and support artists as they are trying their best.
Respect every gender, religion, sexuality, and in general humans. These songs have emotions and hard work put in them, many of them don’t even have the views they deserve. so support them and share them and stay tuned!
