Loved "Enjoy Enjaami"? Meet The Man Behind It

Brut India

With 50 million YouTube views and counting, "Enjoy Enjaami" is a monster hit. But what exactly is it about? Tamil rapper Arivu speaks to Brut about how the song came to be.

Transcript

00:00Injami is a word used by the landless slaves to call their landlords, the feudals.

00:25My lord, my lord, give me my salary.

00:27I am not here to comfort anyone.

00:29I am here to disturb everyone.

00:53This is not my song.

00:54This is her song.

00:56I don't own any of these lyrics.

01:04I am just a pen and paper.

01:22Injai Injami has different meanings.

01:26Injai means celebrate in English, which is a literal meaning.

01:30Injai means enthai, my mother in Tamil.

01:33So celebrate my mother is injai.

01:38Injami means oh my god, oh lord.

01:41Another perspective, injami is a word used by the landless slaves to call their landlords,

01:48the feudals.

01:50My lord, my lord, give me my salary.

01:53My lord, give me a leave, give me a break, give me a bag of rice.

02:10I never wanted to be a political artist.

02:14I wanted to be a real artist.

02:17Being real is political right now.

02:21So in that way, I feel like I'm a real artist.

02:23I wanted to speak the truths of my street.

02:25That's all.

02:26I want to talk about my grandfather.

02:27I want to talk about my neighbor.

02:29I am not here to comfort anyone.

02:31I'm here to disturb everyone.

02:41Puppari is an international art form.

02:43But because this society is a caste society, and in this hierarchy, in this pyramid of

02:49caste, only the lower caste people, only the so-called oppressed people do this art

02:56form.

02:57This art form is not even called as an art form.

03:00Every Puppari singer of Tamil Nadu has a potential to deserve the kind of attention that Nina

03:07Simone got.

03:20We will never be able to annihilate caste if only the oppressed people speak about caste.

03:27Everyone should speak about it.

03:33I want to talk about tomorrow.

03:36I want to talk about the tomorrow that definitely there's going to be a good future.

03:42Definitely there's going to be an equal society.

03:44That's why I wrote like vango vango unnagi, come together, come together, but understand

03:49me and come together.

Category

Transcript

Recommended