He is among the top rappers in the country but Badshah insists he doesn’t work for the stardom. It’s also the reason, he adds, why the fear of losing stardom never bothers him. “I don’t work for the stardom. I work for the music that belongs in my veins and I know I will never lose that. It’s God’s gift to me,” claims Badshah while speaking to IANS.
Life a cruise right now, of course. His run of chartbusters over the years has included “Mercy”, “Paagal”, “DJ waley babu”, “Abhi toh party shuru hui hai”, “Kar gayi chull”,”She move it like”, “Wakhra swag”, “Garmi” and “Genda phool”, and continues. He has appeared in Forbes India’s Celebrity 100 in 2017, 2018 and 2019 as one of the highest-paid celebrities in India. Controversies around plagiarism charges and purchase of fake views, which hounded him last year, have also been forgotten.
At 36, the musician who started out in 2006 with the group Mafia Mundeer, only sees his fan base burgeoning. Talking about the number he thinks has been a gamechanger, Badshah, whose real name is Aditya Prateek Singh Sisodia, diplomatically tags all of them as “tide-turners”.
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