RAP RECAP: ED SHEERAN TAPS KARAN AUJLA, SEEDHE MAUT'S TOUR, LEHAR CHANDIGARH MIXTAPE AND MORE

Seasoned hip-hop artists like Poetik Justis, Lady Skavya and Farhan Khan put out definitive new releases, while Naam Sujal drops a roaring new single

- By ANURAG Tagat

The past few weeks of hip-hop headlines in India have been stacked. International heavy-hitters ranging from Playboi Carti to Central Cee, Denzel Curry to Lil Yachty are slated for India debuts., Travis Scott's long-awaited India debut is set to take place in Delhi NCR in October, followed by a standalone Mumbai show in November, and Spotify is gearing up for its most ambitious edition of Rap9I yet.

There's plenty of music festival headliners, but also homegrown artists firing on all cylinders. Here's a glimpse of everything going down in Indian hip-hop right now.

ED SHEERAN CONFIRMS NEW PUNJABI COLLAB WITH KARAN AUJLA

Ed Sheeran — the British pop artist who has just released his new album Play - made another case for his Indophile credentials when he announced in a Sep. 17 appearance on BBC Asian Network with Nikita Kanda that he's working with Punjabi star Karan Aujla. He said in the interview, “The first time I sang in Punjabi was doing ‘Lover’. Diljit [Dosanjh] was teaching, and then obviously doing it with Arijit [Singh, on their song ‘Sapphire’]. And I've just done a tune with Karan Aujla as well, where we've done like a little bit of that,” he said casually, hinting at the scale of the track. With a music video shot in New York, Sheeran hinted that this massive collab is due in October.

FARHAN KHAN - ALIF LAILA

When Urdu hip-hop artist Farhan Khan dropped